Our two weeks with the grandkids begins!

First of all I will say we didn't plan this sortie all that well.  We are both used to moving and actually prefer it to sitting, but wow, we bit off more than we could chew.  We had a hard date to pick up the kids and packed our appointment in Elkhart and all the driving to accommodate it with big long days and short nights.  We are now in Santa Fe starting our "vacation" time in earnest after over 2300 miles in 7 days over rough roads and tons of rain, including our time in Elkhart getting the lights fixed.  Too much.  

They were having a heat wave as we came into Texas, it was 97 in Dallas where we visited with our daughter, and over 100 as we made our way into Lubbock where it was only 98.  But overnight the heat broke and we have had pleasant weather ever since, oh yeah, that was yesterday and the day before:)

The grandkids on the way to the motorhome

We even had a surprise break on the way to Santa Fe that included ice cream sandwiches.

We pulled into Santa Fe with a huge storm coming down on us, winds gusting over 50 mph, dust everywhere, and what!  The truck won't start!  Dead battery.  The campground had a guy come over to jump us so we could get the truck unhooked and get set up in our site.  Then the debate, did we leave something on, is it just a fluke, or is the 3 1/2 year old battery dying?  We decided to just get a new one so we wouldn't become stranded in one of our out in the middle of nowhere places that we plan to be in.  So with our son's advice I head over to Autozone and in about 10 minutes on Memorial Day afternoon, have a new battery installed in the truck and am out of there ready for our big days to come!  Great service.  So after taking the kids out to dinner at one of our favorite places, The Pantry, listening to the wind whistle and the dust blow by, we watched a movie and had a nice relaxing evening to get ready for our big day today.