First thing was our RV trip during Spring Break:
Starting on 3/28, Erik and I took a weeks vacation with my parents in my Aunts RV to visit Family up in Northern CA and Nevada. It was a great trip and boy was it pretty up there. I finally got to see the Ranch in Bishop.
We started on Sunday driving up to my parent's house to hitch a ride in their minivan to the Ranch to pick up the RV. We stayed the night at Tanya's and it was fun having dinner with them and the kids. The next day we headed out in the RV and boy were we nervous about it. None of us had driven an RV before.
We wanted to stop at my Uncles in Nevada on the way to my Mom my's Sister's place, but we had to beat a storm over the mountain, so we planned on hitting them up on the way back. It was great to see my Aunt, who I hadn't seen since Thanksgiving 1998, and my Grandpa, who I hadn't seen since my wedding. My Mom's Dad is only 3 days younger than my Dad's Dad. It was nice to be able to have a conversation with a grandpa who remembers me and share laughs over the same stories. I miss my Dad's Dad who has bad dementia and doesn't remember me at times when I see him. My Mom's Sister isn't doing to well health wise either. She's on oxygen 24/7 although I don't know for what, she's never been very open about health problems. She does have some of the cutest cats though. Although only about 3 socialized with us during our visit, she has about 9 that are indoor/outdoor cats. It even snowed one of he nights were were there. We were a little worried we'd be stuck there due to snow on the 88, but we lucked out and traveled between all the storms.
On the way back to the Ranch, we did manage to stay one night in Nevada with my Dad's brother and Erik and I stay in a bed at my Cousin Jessica's awesome house. Her bed gave me inspiration to finally by a new bed.
When we made it back to Bishop, I got to see my Cousin Dylan play in his very first baseball game and we went out for Sushi afterwards.
We only had one snafu in the RV while Erik was driving. We were on the 24 heading to the 88 and we were banking around a turn with a guard rail with ends that stuck out a little too much.. sorry for the scratch Aunt Debbie. Thankfully, it wasn't worse.
My mom also ended up very sick the last day of our trip and two days after arriving home, she ended up in the hospital for 3 nights with a Kidney infection. She doesn't like that I harp on her soda drinking, but she drinks way too much and just doesn't want to hear it. I'm just glad she's getting better.
I myself ended up with some kind of food poisoning on Easter Sunday that lasted a little over a day. It was the first time I'd thrown up for being sick since I was 17. I'm not a fan of throwing up. I'll be posting photos of the trip on my FB and PhotoBucket http://photobucket.com/rickiella
