Gray and Dreary but no Rain!

The clouds lifted somewhat today and you could see the top of the hills around Santee but it was still very overcast and quite dreary.  We did get out for a proper walk this morning as we didn't have to dodge rain drops. It felt good - clean air and being outside and stretching our legs.  Maggie didn't even object to the walk.   

We decided when we got back from the walk that we had to get out of the RV and the park today.  It's been several days now of being inside.  Knowing that the traffic was going to be awful and parking would be sparse we decided to go out anyway.  We stopped and had lunch on the way to the mall in El Cajon.  As long as we didn't need to buy anything we didn't need to get in long lines and we could people watch.  It was fun. No problem finding a place to park the truck.   We found a bench inside the mall and parked ourselves there and just watched the shoppers coming and going.  After half an hour we moved to another bench in another part of the mall.  We did that a few times. There were some sights to see!  People seemed to be enjoying themselves and didn't seem harried at all.  There were lots of dads with kids probably shopping for moms.  There were some older folks who were mall walking and dodging the foot traffic as they went.  I noticed that of the women I saw today about 95% wore sensible shoes for shopping.  There was one woman I felt sorry for and wished there was something we could do for her.  She had an infant in one arm and was dragging about a 2 year old along behind her.  He was resisting - kinda like Maggie - he just would sit down on the floor.  I couldn't figure out how she could shop at all or why she was even trying.   Other mothers with small kids had them loaded in shopping carts from the Wal-mart that is one of the hub stores at the mall.  It was an entertaining few hours.  Young and old dressed for the holidays.

We turned on all the lights in the RV so we could see to clean house and got that done in quick order after we got home.  It's supposed to rain all night and all day tomorrow, so we will be inside with the "kids."  Lights will be low and I'm sure they won't even notice if the place was cleaned up or not, but we feel better knowing we made the effort.  

We have a entertainment system in the RV and we are supposed to be able to play music from a jump drive/mp3 player/whatever.  We can't figure out how to make it work.  I want Christmas music for tomorrow.  Guess the young people will have to show us how to do it.

No calls on the mattress.  Monday I'll call Goodwill.