What a Difference a Day Makes!

Yesterday - sunny and 79 degrees.

Today - rainy and 60 degrees.

We got our first walk along the lakes yesterday morning.  It is a 1.5 mile walk down to the office through the campground and along three small lakes.  It was perfection yesterday!  We walked Maggie's little legs off.  She was one tired puppy when we got back!  With all the sniffing she did, her nose muscles must be pretty sore.  we couldn't walk 10 feet without her "discovering" something to inhale and the walk was nearly 3 miles and two hours.

Yahoo!!!

We are settling in.  We have some of the same neighbors as last year including the Danish couple across the street and the couple right next to us who are retired military.  This year we have some interesting neighbors behind us who seem to live here full time.  Fortunately they go off to work every day but they are quite active on the weekend, oh yay!  Across the way, next to the Danish couple, are a couple who have just retired and are starting their new full-timer lifestyle.  A photo of what their site look like tomorrow!!  You won't believe it.  

We started our Christmas shopping today and hope to finish by week's end and get everything in the mail.  We didn't bring any decorations so we get to buy all new for the RV.  Those of you who know me know that I like snow persons as decorations. Rog is being a stinker and won't let me buy anything with snow, snow persons, etc.  He says they are entirely inappropriate for southern California.  So, I'm having to make do with other decor.  I'll figure it out!

We went out to the Marine base at Miramar (about 10 miles) to the base exchange and commissary.  We got a late start this afternoon and then I fooled around looking at shoes and Christmas stuff so we were late coming back.  We hit 5pm traffic.  Oh, was that fun! It was four and five lanes of traffic each way going at about 5 mph with multiple merge points which then stopped traffic.  No accidents or incidents - just normal going home from work traffic.  I tried to photograph it for you, but with the rain and it being dark, all I got were fuzzygraphs.  The traffic was mind boggling but Roger's patience held and we made it back to poor Maggie who was waiting in a totally dark RV.  She was happy to see us to say the least.  We will have to remember when we go out:  1) leave a light on just in case; 2) don't go out so late in the day.  

This really doesn't do the situation justice but it was
the only photo that wasn't totally out of focus.  

Tomorrow more Christmas shopping is on the agenda and with any luck at all we will finish up.  I'll also be looking for a tiny, tiny tree for our winter home.