It was really hard to leave California. However, we needed to start making our trek northeastwards and we also wanted to be close to an airport with direct flights to Toronto as Barb had a side trip planned. This time it was not a holiday but rather a return to Burlington for some exciting family events. Lilah was turning 1 and Barb was not missing that party! Also Jane was turning 65 and Barb planned a surprise party using Lilah’s birthday as the reason to get Jane to Burlington. It was tricky planning all this while we were in California, however Jim helped a lot as did Vanessa, Michelle, and Thomas finding pictures for Jane’s gift.
We chose the Meridian RV Park for Lori’s sake. While Barb was gone, a park with some decent amenities and in particular a great pool and water aerobic classes was important. Tucked into the mountains with great views was another added bonus.
One of tricky aspect of RV parks is access to internet. Some claim to have WiFi and it’s useless. Here you could use it in the office and pool area, but not at our campsite where we typically needed it. LOL. So we had to arrange for a company to come and set us up. We ended up having a cable running out our window and down the RV to the outside park hookup. Very classy. Anyhow it was important to both of us that we had good connection and especially for Lori to pass the time while Barb was back home. Even wilder was the process of returning the modem. It had to be packaged and hand-delivered back to the company who was only 20 minutes away. When we got there however, we had to park on the side of a very busy road with our 4-ways on as we could not turn in to their narrow and very long driveway. So Lori had to run the package down a fairly long road while Barb stayed in the driver’s seat hoping and praying no one would come and ask her to move.
One of the activities we tried while we stayed at Meridian was chair yoga. We thought it would be easy (which it sort of was) yet we each found some sore muscles the next day suggesting we actually worked out new muscles. Incredible given how active we have been.
