Fog, Birthday,and "were in !"

I remember last winter when we were camphosting in the sunny warm desert of southern California, the hikes, barbeque's, walking around in shorts, relaxing in the spa on our days off. What a difference a year makes! Taking hikes bundled up like an Eskimo, enjoying soup inside the rig, hot showers to keep warm, and coffee, lots of coffee! That's life at Folsom lake these days. If it's not raining it's foggy.
One thing that doesn't change is the card games.We have the other two camphosts, Ken and Barb & Jerry and Deb over on Tuesday evenings for cards! That's one thing we do enjoy while camphosting here. We have camphosted with both couples back in 05 and 06 and we all have become fast friends.
The best thing about being in Folsom is seeing our two daughters and their families.Spending some Quality time with them and our grand kids.
Oh, by the way, somebody had a birthday on Jan. 3rd.......Me! I turned the ripe ole age of..... well, it's on my coffee cup. Enough said. Jeni and the family took me to the "olive garden" for Italian food. One of my favorites. I usually don't like a lot of "fanfare " for my birthday,but it was very special for me this year.
Well, as of yesterday Jeni and I are official members of Park Sierra escapee park. We called on Wednesday and they had a site for us as we moved to #1 on the list.Thursday morning we headed down to the park to pay our money and check out our site. Oh, our site number is 419. (3 pictures of the site). It has shade in the afternoon and is a "pullthru"site which means easy in easy out for the rig. It is a corner lot and it is close to the clubhouse. It also has a 10x12 foot storage shed.We also will have mail service and they will forward our mail
to us when we are on the road. The downside is we have to change our address to the park and give up our old address. I'm sure my Daughter Jackie will be happy though. She has forwarded our mail ,without a hitch, since 2005. Not many kids would do this for their parents that long. Jeni and I can't thank her enough. It's high time she gets a mail break! Job well done sweetie.
We won't change our address until we hit there in Oct. I will post it when we actually change it.
While we were at the park we got to see all our friends and get congrats from them. our good friends Gary and Laverne had us over for a delicious dinner. We then went over to the clubhouse to play "wii"bowling and a couple of games of "Peg and Jokers". Jeni and I felt like we had never left the place as we picked right up where we left off when we left.
We just drove the car down from Sacramento,so We got a room for the night in Oakhurst about 10 miles up from the park. We stayed at the "Best Western" motel. I booked it online and got a great rate. My sister in law Martha turned us on to this place as when her and my brother Gary visited us at park Sierra last summer they stayed there. It is a beautiful motel with a great restaurant for breakfast. In the middle of the complex, they have an ares for relaxing with a table and chairs, a barbecue, and a scenic and serene waterfall setting. I snapped a picture of Jen and I posing with the waterfall behind us. It was a great two days for us and we hated to leave. We were already planning our decorating of our site and how much stuff Jeni could get into (her) storage shed!
One note to add for our summer itinerary,In addition to our camphosting job at Cape Blanco State Park in Oregon for June, We have just picked up another job for July and August. Deshutes State Park in north central Oregon. It is on the Deshutes river where it ties into the Columbia River. It's 15 miles east of the Dalles. We have talked to some people that have been up in that area and they say it is beautiful.
Well, as I look out my "fog shrouded"window, pouring myself another hot cup of coffee, I'm day dreaming of the warm sunny desert southwest,me in my tee shirt and shorts, drinking a "cool "one And working on my tan!