Focht Family Blog

We arrived in Statesboro on Thursday afternoon. We dropped mom’s trailer off at the RV park and headed to Nathan’s parents house. We called to tell them we had just arrived in Atlanta (sitting in their living room) to find out where they were. They were on their way home from Walmart so we headed out to the driveway to welcome them home. Nathan’s mom was trying to figure out who had an RV like Nathan’s coming down their street until she saw the kids in the driveway. I think she enjoyed the surprise! Samantha stayed the first two nights here with grandma so Samantha is happy. Nathan and Samantha are with his parents at the GSU Homecoming game right now.

I am parked outside of a laundromat because we had a LOT of laundry that needed to be done. Mom is doing the laundry and I just finished scrubbing the RV from back to front. Next we will go get some lunch and then I am going to sign the kids up for swim lessons at Splash in the Boro so they will be ready for warmer weather at the campgrounds that have pools. It is very difficult for me to take the 3 kids swimming because Samantha is the only one who can swim and she isn’t a very strong swimmer. I checked the website this morning and they have a class that runs from 10/29-11/15 so it will be perfect for them. The only bad part is that the class for Josh is for the kids and parents so I will have to get in the pool with him. I have lost a lot of weight since starting the RV lifestyle but I am not to the point that I like being in a bathing suit. :)

We made reservations at the Lake Lanier Islands Resort Campground because we are now members of Passport America which gives you deals on campgrounds. We chose this because it was near my brother’s house and because Sawnee the COE campground that we usually stay at was closed for the season. We drove in and had to pay $8 at the gate to get on the island. It was 10pm so they gave us a map to our sites. We drove up very narrow roads in the dark and the rain looking for the sites. It was very difficult for Nathan to keep the RV and the trailer on the road. We got to the sites and decided to look at them before just pulling in. Good thing!

Mom’s site had an exposed wire box. We thought maybe we could just not hook her up for the night and have them fix it the next morning but then we looked at our site next to hers and there was a large branch hanging low enough on our site that at best it would have scraped the coach up and at worst it would have gone through the windshield. Both combined we decided it wasn’t worth the money even with the discount. We drove back out, I got a refund of the $8 and we stayed at Walmart for the two days we were there visiting my brother. My brother was driving to Alabama on Thursday to take a second look at a bus they were considering buying so we decided to head to the Boro a week early and surprise Nathan’s parents.