Focht Family Blog

After leaving Savannah we made it to Greenville, SC the first night. Traffic was horrible. If we had remembered what day it was we would have waited until Monday to leave. We chose Greenville because we watched the TLC show Six For The Road and the family from the show were working a tree stand there. We were curious to see if they were anything like the show portrayed them. After meeting them we are very glad that we did not choose to do the show ourselves since at one time we were thinking about it. We quickly realized that TV chooses to edit how they want to. The website for the Evans family is www.ourloudfamily.com

They were a wonderful, friendly family. The show is now being shown on Discovery Health on December 3 & 10 at 8:00 & 8:30. I belong to a yahoo group called Families on the Road and I knew of their family from there. While we were there another family from the FOTR group showed up. Their bus was having problems so we were able to meet two other families that travel fulltime. After socializing for a bit in the morning we headed off again. I was in bed most of the day with a head cold so I couldn’t drive at all and Nathan had to get some work done so we stopped for the night at dinner time in Kentucky. We managed to make it to Nappanee by early afternoon on Tuesday.

Since we will not be in Georgia for Christmas, we went to Nathan’s parents house for Thanksgiving which ended up also being Christmas for the kids. Here are some pictures of the kids opening their gifts from Grandma and Poppa….

Everyone had a wonderful day full of good food and family.

I went back to the endocrinologist on Wednesday. My thyroid levels are where they should be so I can stay on the level of medicine that I am at. My parathyroid is back to normal as well as my vocal chord. I get to cut my calcium in half and stay at that level. The only problem I still had was my Vitamin D level is low so I have to go on high dose therapy for 6 weeks and have my level rechecked. I don’t have to go see her again until March. :)

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Last night we cut out Nathan’s braids as soon as we got home and trimmed his beard. This morning I gave him a haircut. I could not believe how different he looks with his beard trimmed. He has been growing his beard for Halloween for four months. I haven’t seen him with his beard trimmed for quite awhile. :)

I would like to say we have had a wonderful time the whole time we have been here. We have had some good days. The kids have ridden bikes almost daily and we have taken frequent trips to the pool. However we have had some bad as well. On Tuesday we filled our fresh water tank before leaving for the science museum. While the water is filling the water does not run inside the RV. Timmy was trying to brush his teeth while it was filling and since the water was not running he left the bathroom with the sink still turned on.

After we were done filling nobody else went back in the bathroom. We received a phone call from the campground while we were at the museum that said someone saw water pouring from the RV. We figured it was just the water that had run over when the tank was done filling so we didn’t think too much of it. Before going to get lunch we stopped by the RV to make sure all was well and found that there was still some water dripping from the side. Upon investigating Nathan found that the gray tank had filled completely with the water that was now running out of the sink and after the gray tank was full the remainder of the water in the fresh tank overflowed into the RV and out the side.

We have called the insurance company and someone is supposed to come inspect it next week to see if there is any moisture left in the flooring. However, we do know that the electronics in the outside entertainment center were fried because that is one of the exit paths the water took. :(