Hesitant? Nervous? Doubtful? YES, YES and YES! I was certainly leary that all of this was going to go down as planned. lol But to my utter shock & awe the part showed up to my aunt's front door! 👏 I couldn't believe it! But it did - I opened the package myself just to double check that the box wasn't full of candy wrappers or packing peanuts. Please join me in a round of applause for.....
We were grateful to have the extra time to spend with my aunt and in Arizona, so we took full advantage of it. My aunt is an amazing hair stylist and so she graciously used her magic scissors on a couple of the boys.
We then headed off to visit the Arizona Science Center. We purchased a membership to the Sunriver Nature Center before we left home because it includes a network of museums around the country that you can visit for free or greatly reduced cost. So off to the Arizona Science Center we go... {okay maybe because it's an air conditioned activity too.}
This particular example of the stomach and digestive system was especially entertaining, as you can hear! lol 😝
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A stop over at one of our favorite road trip restaurants for a quick bite....
The kids don't get to see my aunt, their great aunt, very often but when they do, they have no problem jumping in where they left off last visit. We all 💗 Aunt Rose Marie greatly!
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| S'mores made this guy very happy & the rest of us very HOT! lol Let's just say it doesn't cool down at night in Arizona, like it does so nicely in good ol' Central Oregon. ;) |
And so you can see that we used every extra spare moment we had between the Arizona Science Center, a cool {literally} mall, going out to eat, swimming and s'mores!
WEDNESDAY MORNING ARRIVES!
This is the day that the amazing Orangewood RV is going to replace our slide motors and get us back on the road. Honestly, I had the same intention of dragging all of us into the repair center just to remind them of the {sweet} family they were doing this for - but I'd reach my limit on family participation of this sort because it required a wake up time of 7.30am. Ya - not happening!
So our amazing {handsome} driver buttons the tin can up while the rest of us are whipping the sleepies out of our eyes. He drops it off and calls me for a ride to pick him up while the tin can remains there. They were supposed to begin working on it about 9am and said it should only take a couple of hours but would nonetheless be for sure done by 4pm. Thus we had already planned on not leaving till Thursday morning, just to be safe!
And wouldn't you know it, they called a few hours later and let us know she was done!!!! YAHOO! 👏 We (okay - I) thought that call would never come. So the driver went to pick her up and the service tech comes out to show him the newly repaired slide, he pushes the slide button and there she goes.... OUT and BACK IN - just like she's supposed to. Beautiful! The driver steps up to the plate and takes a swing at the exact same process... OUT
and
NOT back in!!! 😭 {insert weeping & gnashing of teeth}
So the service tech steps back up and pushes the button and it comes back in for him! Ah - I see where this is going.... said service guy is now joining us on the remainder of the trip for his slide services!
At any rate, this was as good as it was going to get so we drove the tin can back to my aunt's house. We celebrated Wednesday night going out to dinner at a delicious Mexican restaurant! Thursday morning we kissed and hugged Aunt Rose Marie before she headed off to work and finished our loading up of the tin can.
Until next time! 💛
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