10-26-08 Sunday (Mrs. Kravitz)

I could barely stay up last night. By about 10pm, I was in bed. Jim stayed up, probably much later, since he's slept in so long today. I'm not even sure what we're going to do today. Yesterday, I grabbed a copy of a weekly entertainment newspaper but I haven't looked through it yet. I'm sure there's several haunted attractions to see but I fear (get it?) they'll be as cheesy as the time Jim and I went to the Lakes Park Haunted Train ride. That was a joke. Definitely for children, not for adults. It's possible today might be one of those long blog entries about nothing.

They say a person's life journeys shape one's personalities. Or something like that. I wonder how our journeys will change us. Will we want less belongings since we can currently carry less? Will we want more because we'll be tired of having less? Will we want a smaller home because we're grown accustomed to having that? Will we want to be environmentally friendly after seeing the natural beauty? I'm sure we'll change, and hopefully in a positive way of course.

Jim has crawled out of bed. He didn't go to sleep late, he's just feeling sick. Congested and such. Perhaps he's caught a cold. It's close quarters here so I'm going to do my best not to catch it as well. I'd spray Lysol around but then the LP Gas Leak Detector Nazi will scream at me.

Jim has went back to bed. He laid on the couch for a short time. I can tell he's sick, he hasn't even smoked.

The water here tastes and smells like a new vinyl shower curtain liner. While I've not tasted a shower curtain, I can assure you, this is what it tastes like. We've had this situation before in Florida only it was a foul smell. Since then, I think we've purchased a water quality check kit at some point. I guess the next thing will be to find it. There's not much space in an RV but you'd be surprised at all the nooks and crannies. I've checked in most of the "makes sense" places so far except for where the hose is stored. I think we'll have to get bottled water for the stay here. I'd hate to cough up a PVC pipe, although I'd probably be famous and maybe wealthy.

Jim has risen from the land of sickness. I'm not sure how long he'll be up. I'm thinking I should close the bedroom door, arm myself with Lysol, and attack the bed. I may even scream "attack!" or some other engaging word. "Fire!" is probably a bad thing to scream in an RV park. RV's contain diesel or gas and propane. I've read "It takes only 5 to 7 minutes for a 40 foot RV to burn to the rails." Educational blog, isn't it? Imagine standing at a party, chatting with a new acquaintance. They talk to you about the physics of the moon and you can blurt out "Oh yeah, well did you know an RV can burn to the rails in JUST 5-7 minutes?". While you may appear well read, maybe even slightly smart or mildly disturbed, you can guarantee you won't be invited back.

Way too often, I REread (for Here and There) what I have in the entry so far and amaze myself over the stupid stuff I insert into these things.

Even though my day has been so busy thus far, I stopped to take some photos of our campground "Mountain Shadows".

To one side we have a small mountain view with some attractive traffic cones in the foreground. The small pond with waterfall is fishless but not too bad.

More mountain views also reveal the highway which is right behind the pickup truck that got in my damn way. I didn't want to waste film. Oh, yeah, I have a digital camera.

This photo reveals the soft green areas with another bright orange traffic cone. I never really noticed them until I looked at these pictures. What's that on the other side of the interstate? Is it an Ikea? Wow, we could practically uhhhhh drive there.

It's really not a bad park and the convenience to Camping World for repairs will probably be worth it. Even though I say it's not too bad, I'll probably continue to bitch about it, topped with photos of less than desirable things here..... it's what I do.

Oh wow, 8 Draper City Police cars arrived along with an ambulance and a fire truck. Something happened at an RV 3 spaces down. A crying woman on a phone, and an older man who was shaking met with the police. Perhaps a death or something? I'm not really sure why 8 police cars are needed. The ambulance appears to be leaving without anyone. Ahhhh the days in a trailer park... try it. I'm sure in a way it might be amusing to see all of these people crammed into an RV. The fire truck is now departing. I feel like Gladys Kravitz, only I hope I look better.

Jag takes in the view of "neighbors talking trash during a crisis".

The over-responding Draper City Police Department.

An hour or so later, Jim saw an unmarked bed-capped pickup truck arrive to which a body bag was carried out to. Only 1 police car remains.
Jim had suggested the vinyl tasting water should be checked right from the faucet. I did so and found it to be something in our connections. It turned out to be our hose which was used a few times prior to this one. I'm not sure why the hose started to emit a poor taste after being used a few times. It's a water drinking safe (so we thought) hose we purchased from Wal-Mart in an RV supply section. We bought it because the hose can be used even when part of it is reeled up which makes for a tidy campsite. We'll be returning that now. Maybe Camping World has something similar. I switched out the hose with our other and the water is fine.
While I worked on the connections an older spanish man walked over and spoke with me in fairly good english. I had found out that the woman that was on the phone is his daughter and the 3 kids are his grandchildren. He said she didn't live here and that she came for something and found him dead. I think he's her ex from what I could understand.