Seeing America with Ken and Shirley: Lake Lahontan, ROCKS, getting ready to go camping

Good afternoon from HOT Yerington, NV! It's sitting at about 95 degrees right now. Beautiful blue skies with a slight breeze that hopefully keeps up! (It was afternoon, but pics wouldn't post..so it's 2227 now)...

Yesterday morning I ran to Raley's to get a few more things for the afternoon at the lake. The boys were still sleeping when I left. Raley's, Family Dollar and the bank I was headed home again.

I drove up and through our driveway area that Ken has made in case we get some RVing friends to come visit. Well, what do I see?! Two large rocks are now the opening for the driveway! John and Karen next door had bought several rocks for their back yard landscaping. Ken told them if the guy they use comes across a couple for about $400.00 for the two we would be interested! Well, there they are and they were a gift from our neighbors. NO way would they let us pay for them. Ken has helped them out when he can with plumbing, finding dogs etc. so they wanted to gift us these beauties. :)

I came inside and found that Seth was awake, so made him his breakfast. Then I proceeded to make a million sandwiches for lunch (little exaggeration but sure felt like a lot). Once that was done I woke up the two sleeping beauties in the other room. Fed them and we eventually left the house.

Nice that Lake Lahontan is only about 40 minutes or so away from here, so we got there at about 1300. They were really packed with families, campers, boats, jet skis etc. It was a beautiful day and the lake was so pretty.

We found an area over at Beach 8 and proceeded to get all the stuff unloaded and down to the little beach area we claimed. Water was perfect and the kids enjoyed playing in the water. I had tried to get some floats or something from Family Dollar but no luck. I could see us definitely going back this summer as it was so pretty and refreshing. With Ken's old guy pass, it costs us nothing to camp there! Not a lot of facilities, but that's why we brought our own. Pit toilets, but no thanks.

The lake is so pretty and full..a few years ago it was almost
empty!

Seth and Mason

Sunscreening it up

The boys..

Aaron flexing for the camera..haha

Even Ken got into the action

Boating fun!

Just so pretty..and perfect temp!

We left about 1600 and Ken and I were the only ones who ate lunch. I guess when you have breakfast at 1200 your not really hungry at 1600. ha..by the tine we got home all the boys were ready to eat their sandwiches. Later on they still weren't hungry so we didn't worry about dinner. There was stuff for them to munch if they wanted.

Just about 1900 Ken and I headed next door for a few hours. Love our neighbors! Before we left we all decided that John would take our cab over to Tonopah for the next few weeks. He works for NV Energy and he hates staying in motels. He's got a project there he started and wants to finish before he leaves NV Energy. Our little Six Pac is perfect for him. They own a Mobile Suite (similar to yours Patsy) but it's in the shop in Reno :(

This morning, Sunday we awoke at about 0600 and had our coffee and visiting with friends. It was warm already! I headed out to the cab over and changed the sheets out. I still had flannel sheets and Christmas Quilt on the bed. Guess we haven't been out in it for quite a while. Got that done and did some general cleaning of it. Hope he enjoys it, I know we do.

The money pit is getting loaded for camping

A little HOT Wind!

Washed and folded a few loads of clothes for the boys. I know they can fold their own, but when they're at Grandma's I do it :) Seth was the first up about 1000 and the others close to 1200. Breakfast done eventually..haha. The boys wanted to go on a quad ride, but with getting the Cabover ready and Ken doing his part, we didn't know if it would work. We talked about it and decided that Seth is 16 1/2, the others are 13 so we put Seth in charge and let them go for a bit. They actually were gone less than an hour and were back. Mason got in the shower and the other two wanted to go again. They asked Mason if he wanted to go and he declined. So the two took off and were back about an hour later. Guess you gotta let them go sometime.

Ken got his part of camping stuff together and I put some stuff into the Jayco. The rest will go in the am before we head out. Made some sandwiches just before 1600 but not as much as normal. Ken's bar b qing chicken tonight so we want them to be hungry!

Tomorrow morning Seth and I will take his Jeep to the gas station and fill it with gas, grab some ice and then drop by Raleys for some more bread and a few things. It's only about an hour and a half over to Bridgeport which is perfect. We'll see how the boys do with no internet service for 2 whole days! haha. Bridgeport may have it, but back where the campgrounds are there is nothing! Hopefully we'll find a spot and we'll be there until Wednesday morning when the boys will head home and we'll head here. We'll be looking forward to the next time they visit!

Got a text with pictures from Daughter In Law Cheryl today..Her dad's birthday was today so they had a gathering at their house. So I stole a few pics from Facebook (sorry Bryan free game if it's posted there) and a couple that Cheryl sent to me...Happy Birthday Keith..he was a special man :)