Focht Family Blog

Newmar was wonderful as usual with the exception of the alarm clock going off WAY too early. We arrived at Newmar on Monday and Tuesday morning bright and early the crew came to get the RV. Thankfully they were able to find some of the electrical problems although Nathan still thinks it is drawing too much. However they found an engine block heater that has been plugged in for 2 years that we never knew we had. The block heater draws 8 amps at all times. The other thing that they found was that one of the chassis batteries was dead so the charger was constantly running trying to charge it. Hopefully our last two weeks at Shenango will be more affordable now! :)

While the RV was being worked on we did our best to keep the kids entertained. Here are the kids at the big playground in Nappanee.

We also invaded Nathan’s peace and quiet a few times because we found out that they have DISH in the waiting room where dogs are allowed and the kids wanted to have more cartoons to watch than the PBS that mom could get with her antennae. Here is Josh lounging out watching TV.

Here is Timmy watching TV while my mom is immersed in her book.

For those of you who read this who also go to Newmar for service, you will be glad to see that Newmar has installed 3 washers & 3 dryers in the high line waiting room (open to all/pets allowed). They even have a laundry detergent dispenser and a change machine.

I can’t let anyone know how the machines worked because our resident laundress, my mom, said that it was still cheaper to drive to the laundry by the Pizza Hut so we went there to do our laundry while in Nappanee.

After the RV service was done we stayed one more day so we could do some shopping. We made our usual stop at the Little Nook Bookstore and we also went to the Farmer’s Market but we were disappointed to find that most of the stalls were empty. We thought it might be because of the bad economy but one of the stores I purchased from said it was because they have recently opened on Wednesday as well so when they increased the days it was opened for a lot of the stalls were being run by people who had other obligations for their Wednesdays so they are in the process of getting new people in. Here are the kids posing with a pig statue that they liked.

Saturday we drove from Nappanee to Indianapolis so Nathan could attend a user conference. Updates from Indy to follow…