6-16-09 Tuesday (Jim Smokes)

I’m so guilty of not following up on thoughts I put in the blog. Jim has called me out on this several times. I realized that I tagged yesterday’s entry with “Walmart” but never mentioned it in the blog. We again needed a few things and headed to Walmart. An item on the list was bath towels. Jim has checked with the office several times regarding his misplaced towel. I still can’t believe someone would take it. Anyway, we bought 2 new (so they’d match) bath towels. I was tempted to leave the remaining towel where Jim had forgotten the other. I’d of course attach a note with something like “Dear Ass Clown, Here’s the other towel that matches the one you stole. We assume you needed it more. For the matching hand towel and wash cloth, please visit us at site #26 where you can break in and take other things that don’t belong to you as well.”

OK, the other thing I mentioned yesterday is the parts store. We went there to buy an oil fill cap. During an oil change the other day, Walmart said they were unable to remove the oil fill cap and had to refill the oil through the PCV. We bought one of those and then went to a Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler dealer for a differential drain plug.

In more rewind news:

Last night we watched Underworld III. We enjoyed the movie and our healthy batch of popcorn. Dasher enjoyed cuddle time.

Jim spotted a couple walking 2 Italian Greyhounds (Zoey & Nicky) and then sprinted out of the RV to chat with them (Karen & Simon). They have a female that is the smallest we’ve seen at 4 years old. Their male was smaller than Dasher but larger than the female. They returned to our RV and I brought Dasher outside to meet them. Dasher enjoyed socializing with them.

OK, back to the present:

With empty tummies, big appetites, and weak resistance, we ate at Whataburger. Heaven.

Next it was over to the Don Harrington Discovery Center. This was a fun place. Basically a place to play with the exhibits. Maybe we would have looked normal if we had children with us. Occasionally I think we should have just randomly yelled at children nearby. Jim probably would have rejected that idea. Anyway, we also saw a couple of movies in their planetarium style theater – one about black holes and the other was Fantasy Light Show (stuff set to cool music).

Above: No, he’s not really smoking silly.

I thought of blog reader Liz when we were here. She would have loved this for her kids. Too bad Liz… we had a blast. I will tell you that some of the displays were very graphic in teaching children about turkey vultures and what other critters eat.

Above: A display to show you how many rodents the owl would eat in a year. ACK! It’s blurry but you can see the display in general.

Oh yeah, there were a lot of gross displays. I’ll spare you the vultures eating road kill possum.

Video Time

Above: Jim attempts to send smoke signals.

Above: Jim wants one for home.

Above: Sorry for the glare. These are dry ice pieces that are dropped into the water. The reaction is cool.

Tonight is our last night in Amarillo. Tomorrow we’re off to Oklahoma City. Ya know, there’s just no better way to finish off a night than taking a trip to Walmart. Well! What can I tell ya? I made stirfry the other night, we were planning on having that for lunch tomorrow but have no rice left, so we bought some more groceries that we’ve been adding to the list. Sure, we could have lived without the rice or even went to some other store but what else do we have to do? Seems every time we get everything on the list, within a day, 4 more things replace it. A vicious cycle.

Actually Walmart wasn’t the end to the day. The hot tub closes at 10:00 and we made it there at 9:50. I don’t think they lock anything up though because the owner’s home shares it’s yard with the hot tub court yard and showers. They could lock it but I don’t think they ever do.

Goodnight ya’ll!