Getting settled

We got to Butterfield on Tuesday. We stopped on the way in Julian for a yummy lunch. We were here by noon. It was still a little chilly, but the sun was shining brightly. The manager (Barbara Jean) told us that they had had gale force winds the night before, but that the bad weather was supposed to be over. They had snow here just two weeks ago. I think that we timed this well.

Bob was surprised to learn that the altitutde here is over 2000 feet, so he is having a little trouble breathing, but it is not bad. We are doing things slowly. It took us a while to set up the trailer. We had our choice of over 100 spots. I asked why it was so empty and was told that it gets more full later in the month and on weekends. OK. So we tried one spot and noticed that it did not have a fire ring. So we wanted to try another. I asked Barbara Jean and she said that the other one had electrical problems. So we tried a third and it is great.

Since this was Tuesday, I wanted to watch the Biggest Loser. (Stefee has gotten me hooked on that show.) There is a TV in the Visitor Lounge, but they close the lounge at 6 pm. Barbara Jean said that if I got there before 6, she would show me how to lock up. She is great. So I got to watch the show. Walking back to the trailer in pitch black darkness with a tiny flashlight was a little difficult, but I finally found it.

I got up yesterday and walked about four miles. I didn't realize that I chose the downhill direction. That meant uphill all the way back. When I walk again I will try the other direction. It was nice getting some walking in.

We set up the scooters, filled their tires with air (Bob has a portable everything), and everything looked done. I was going to use the free wifi. Bob gets too impatient with the slow wifi so he wanted to try our Verizon. We got in the truck and then drove about 10 miles down the road where there was cell phone coverage. We tried our Verizon broadband. It didn't work. So I called Verizon. The first young man (sounds ominous already doesn't it) told me that it wasn't connected. I was frustrated because we had made sure to get it connected a week ago. He kept me on hold for a while and then told me that it was complicated and he was transfering me to a specialist. The next young man identified himself as being in sales and told me that he had to run a credit check. At that point I lost it. Here we were sitting in the middle of the desert and I was having to deal with such incompetence. When I told my story again, he said that he would check. Then he said that he would hook it up and it would be ready in 15 minutes. He gave me his direct number in case it did not work. We waited 15 minutes. It did not work. I tried the direct number and it needed an extension which I did not have. So I tried again and got a third person. She was finally able to fix the problem. URGHH!!! It turns out that they had given me a new phone number because of the length of time that we had closed the service. She just needed to walk me through to change thge number. Now i know for the future.

We got some bills paid and came back to the trailer. I sat out in the sun to read my book and got quite a little sunburn. No sun for me today. I was so tired that I was in bed fast asleep by 8 pm and slept until 5 am this morning.

It had been getting pretty cold at night here - like in the low 40's. But not last night. When we got up it was 50 degrees. NICE. Barbara Jean had put a DVD player in the lounge for me so that I could do my exercise dvds. But I forgot that the lounge is locked. It doesn't open until 9 am. So I set up my laptop outside and did 45 minutes of power sculpting outside in the shade. Also NICE. Barbara Jean says she will meet me to open the lounge at 7 am. I will walk tomorrow but meet her on Saturday. She is really nice.

I don't know what we will do for the rest of the day. Bob was not feeling great this morning. If he feels better we may try riding the scooters or biking. Not sure. But we are enjoying the sun.