Focht Family Blog

Well… unfortunately for me Nathan had an appointment Tuesday morning. He had one of the people he was meeting with pick him up. Why was this unfortunate for me? It left me with the task of getting 3 kids and 2 large duffel bags of stuff across an icy road with snow banks on each side. My mom came over with one of the duffels so I could put all of the bags of toys we brought with us to the hotel in it. She had both of the boys, I had Samantha and the duffels. We stopped at the desk and checked out. Next we had to wade through snow through the parking lot. Only Timmy had his snow boots so the rest of us were trudging through snow that was past my ankles in sneakers. I got Samantha across the street, dropped the duffels in the snow and then went back to carry Josh because mom was having trouble getting both of them through the snow. I carried Josh to the trailer and then went back for the duffels.

Next we got the brilliant idea to walk to the corner at lunchtime to a diner that was there for lunch. I went back into the RV and grabbed the rest of the snow boots. I have learned the hard way that mine are not water proof. I think I need to throw them out and buy some duck boots to keep in the RV. That would help in puddles while hooking up in rain as well. I managed to carry Josh most of the way but couldn’t make it all of the way. Samantha helped me by taking one of his hands while I had the other and we manged to get to the diner with only falling once or twice. Lunch was delicious and although the waitress offered to drive us back we chose to walk again. I stopped in to get an update and it was a good thing. They had been trying to call Nathan because they didn’t know how to bring in the slide and needed to drive it to make sure all of the leaks were solved.

While we were walking the dogs after lunch I decided to take a picture of them in the snow. Here are Misty and Punch. Misty doesn’t care for this cold too much but mom seems to think Punch enjoys it.

The RV was finally returned to us at 4:00 and then we headed to the mall again for dinner. We are enjoying being back in our home. Nathan had to sleep with Samantha last night and she slept fitfully so he didn’t get much sleep and Josh was restless last night as well so I didn’t get much rest either sleeping with him and Timmy. Tomorrow we are heading to a CB shop to have them diagnose what the problem is with ours. Nathan has now replaced every part of the CB and it still doesn’t work. It was working fine until it was driven into a short building at Newmar in October. They took off the antennae. We replaced the antennae, then the wiring and finally the actual CB. Not sure what happened when the antennae came off to mess everything up. Next we are going to R-Vision. They are the company that made mom’s trailer. When we got to Newmar the kitchen counter and cabinets had come away from the wall of the trailer. Nathan fixed it but then he also noticed that the TV cabinet is trying to come down from the ceiling. When he looked it looks like the ceiling is warping so we want to make sure the trailer isn’t going to break in half. They said they would look at it and see what they could do.

Next we will be heading back to Newmar. Nathan has decided he wants to replace the small folding table with a dinette table. He called on Monday and they made us a dinette table that matches are interior so we are going to go pick it up. We also need to do laundry so I think we may end up spending the night at Newmar although Nathan said something about getting on the road even if he only makes it to Indianapolis and stays at Camping World. I know mom would prefer Newmar because she can plug in. Either way Thursday we will be heading south again. We will be back in Statesboro probably by the weekend. Then we have a week at Disney starting Saturday, March 8 followed by The Rally in Perry. Not sure where we will head from there…