This morning I went up to talk to the campground staff about our reservation(s). Our Thousand Trails (TT) membership does not expire until Feb 23. It lets us stay here and numerous other campgrounds for "free", but you can only stay 14 days and then you have to be "out of the system" for 7 days. Our Thousand Trails "free" days were/are Dec 19-Jan 2 & Jan 9- Jan 23. We paid for the week Jan 2-Jan 9.
When Karen, who seems to run things even though she is not the manager, was in the reception area with the manager. She saw me and said to him, "This is the man you want to talk to." Because of the electric problems we had initially, caused by the bad panels at our site and at least one more, we are connected to the panel for site 283, even though we are parked at 281. Apparently TT controls the use of the sites that have the bad panels, but not the upkeep. They told me that TT has rented site 283 and the people are supposed to arrive on the 12th. We are plugged in to the panel at 283, using a 50 amp extension cord. They asked if we would move to one of the non-TT sites up front. I had asked if they could let us stay in one of them when we first checked in, because they are a little closer to the clubhouse and pool. I was told no. I agreed to move to one of the sites tomorrow, its really not that big a deal.
The reason I went to the office was to discuss making a paid reservation for Jan 23-Jan 30. They gave me a discounted price of $240 for the week. I also made a TT (free) reservation for Jan 30-Feb 13. Our TT membership will expire then. I asked how much it would cost to stay an additional month Feb 13-Mar 12, they quoted $650+elec for the month. This place is nice enough but it isn't palatial. Tomorrow we will start looking at other campgrounds in the area.
I love staying at the Rainbow Plantation Escapees campground in Summerdale, AL, and would consider going there for 4-6 weeks ($415/mon+elec), but probably don't want to go that far out of the way on our way home. Another option is going to Rainbows End (the Escapee home campground) in Livingston, TX for that time. $375/mon+elec. Rainbow Planation has at least as much going on as they do here. We have only stayed a couple of nights ar Rainbows End so I don't know about them. One negative is that neither of them have heated pools, nor hot tubs, but Kathy has only been in the heated pool once and the hot tub twice during the 3 weeks we have been here. Decisions, decisions...😀, its a great life when this is one of the big decisions I have to make.
From 1-3 PM there was a Jam Session at the clubhouse. Thirteen different singers performed, some of them twice, plus there were some musicians who did not sing. Of the 20 songs I listened to I would rate one of the singers as good and two of them as bad, the others were okay. Note the lady in red who plays a wash tub. Also note the guy in the red shorts, left of center. He is one of the better singers and a plays both the guitar and harmonica. Almost every one of the singers stops and lets him play a segment during their song. He is wearing a belt that has at least 6 harmonicas on it.
This cute couple were sitting near the back of the audience and they got up and danced 3 or 4 times.
About 40 minutes into the show Kathy went to the puzzle room and worked on puzzles. I listened for maybe another half hour and then joined her. You could hear the music fine when in the puzzle room (much to my enjoyment and her chagrin), The puzzle she, and others, are working on is HARD. I sat with her for maybe 45 minutes yesterday and I think I finally put 2 pieces together. This morning two other people were working on it with her. Someone else started an easier one. I worked on the easier one. After supper, and after Wheel of Fortune, she headed back up to the clubhouse to work on it again.
She made reservations for our Shrimp Boil, Brownsville Harbor tour for Thursday.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has sure blessed me.
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