Flip Floppin' to a Fresh Feast under a Full moon

I really love this spot we're in and even though we're missing "our shows" it's a nice change to not have regular TV...we can always catch up online. On mornings like this, I think we really have to thank ourselves for doing what we want to be doing, instead of what everyone else thinks we should be doing.

[caption id="attachment_2754" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Hello Morning![/caption]

After our morning rituals, I decided to take Savannah to the very top of the hill (where we hit the dead end yesterday) to take in the sights of, well...everything and maybe even get some good shots of our spot from up above. It's a pretty steep hill, even steeper than Laughlin's hill, and I was wearing flip flops (when am I not) but we were going to do it anyway!

[caption id="attachment_2759" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Pretty good![/caption]

When we finished our walk, I figured it was about that time to "shower" and hopefully the water had had enough time to warm up a bit more...been freezing until almost close to sunset! I never really thought the solar shower wouldn't heat up as much in the Winter, I thought sun is sun...nope, all sun is NOT equal my friends! It's a good thing I've figured out how to be fast and smart at this shower taking stuff! This is what I do when we have a spot that's pretty private (let me think that, okay) unless you have great binoculars: I get in my bikini, fold a towel to put on the ground (for the dirt and sharp rocks poking in your butt!), fill my Charmin box with water and clean my face, refill with clean water to shave, then move over to the Solar shower to wash the bod and hair. This way you're not wet and cold the whole time (it's been windy for the last few months, seems that wind knows when you're wet!) Even with the water being way less than luke warm, it always feels good to be clean and fresh! Oh, and I am definitely going to need a hairscut soon. I think I'm going to grow the top out a bit but keep cutting the back...I miss my hair!

[caption id="attachment_2760" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Fro fro is clean again![/caption]

The days seem to be getting shorter even though they're not. Maybe it's because we are on Arizona time and the sun doesn't come up til' like 8:30 a.m! We do keep getting some pretty radical sunsets though, so I can't complain about the sun going down, just wish it wasn't before we had dinner! Dinner tonight consists of loaded mashed taters, corn and brown rice...yes, we need to go shopping!

[caption id="attachment_2761" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Best bowl of mush out there![/caption]

Don't forget...Full Moon tonight!!!!

[caption id="attachment_2762" align="aligncenter" width="300"] I ❤ You![/caption]

PEACE

How many more days???

Another day marked down in the books of "Living in your van in Laughlin"! We woke up as we normally do...in the casino parking lot. Although someone must have had a hard nights' sleep...she did not want to get out of the blankies!

[caption id="attachment_2672" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Finally got her "up" but not out of bed![/caption]

I swear she is just like a toddler with sleepy eyes and everything...she actually groans when you pull her from the covers and she's not ready to get up! Bum!! haha

When we started moving around this morning, we agreed to stay closer to the casinos, due to lack of gas, and drove to the closest day parking we could find. The lot we found is actually part of The Colorado Heritage Parks and Trails, only this lot is on the same road as the casinos, not a lot of driving is needed....but every single spot was full so we ended up driving across the bridge anyway! As we pulled into that parking lot, we saw there was one of those RV spots, so we pulled right in. We were only going to stay here for as long as it was going to take me to "shower" but it ended up being such a nice spot, we stayed for the day!

[caption id="attachment_2673" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Good stuff[/caption]

And guess who was there?

The Rock Guy!

I'm surprised I don't have any pictures of him as much as we see him...oh well. I wonder if he thinks we're following him. I think that's also a sign you've been in one spot for far too long! haha

Savannah was able to get some good walks in today. We went down "by the water"...well overlooking the water.

[caption id="attachment_2674" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Bug by the water[/caption]

We walked up on the trails and even climbed up on some big rocky hills by Joon...she was pumped!

[caption id="attachment_2675" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Climbing Bug[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2676" align="aligncenter" width="300"] She says, "I'm da boss!"[/caption]

J' was able to get a ton of work done. I took a pretty good "shower" and Savannah got her little legs (and heart) some good exercise. Hopefully we will be restocking and loading up in the next couple of days to get on down the road. I'm sure some of you might be in the same boat with money, finances, whatever you want to call it, with the holidays...seems to hold a lot of stuff up even through the internet. Nothing is perfect but this was a definite lesson to us for the upcoming month with the many holidays and New Year approaching. We will plan better this time!

I am now off to feed my tribe...chicken salad sammies all around!!

[caption id="attachment_2679" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Yummm[/caption]

Now if I can only get the lazy bum to get up!! I swear all she does is sleep...haha

[caption id="attachment_2678" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Get up ya lazy bum![/caption]

PEACE

Nana makes a scene...and I'm clean!

We went back to the park today (The Colorado River Heritage Park and Trails). We parked in the same RV spot we were in the other day, turned out to be a good spot. We walked the trail a little short of half way down, there was a crew of construction workers (surprised!? haha) tearing out a bunch of brush from the side of the trail the river was on. I guess they want to make it more easy on the eyes. We walked past them and then stood and watched some birds hanging out on a power line.

The thing that made us stop and stare for as long as we did was these weren't regular birds you would see on a power line, they looked like Ducks! We watched as one by one, these birds, Ducks, whatever, would come in for a landing, wobble a little and sit there to chill. It was so weird, we didn't know Ducks could sit on a line like that...how do they grab the line if they have webbed feet?

This guy, who was walking on the path, stopped and told us if we come early in the morning there's like 50 of them. I asked if he knew what they were and he said some kind of crane. Hmmm, okay!? We turned and walked back toward the van. As we were getting situated for morning rituals and work, we saw that same guy walking toward the van, then he would stop and walk back the other way, then toward the van...almost like he was going to come talk to us and then changed his mind. He did this a good 6-7 times and then J' saw him talking to a couple that was walking past him, he pointed something out to them, they stopped took a picture of something and both went separate ways. J' said, "Go over there and see what they were taking pictures of..." Okay. I walked over there and since I didn't see the whole thing go down, I was looking at the van, up in the air, in the mountains. Finally J' came over and said, "He was pointing at the ground." As soon as he said that, we both looked down and Boom! That was definitely something to take a picture of!

[caption id="attachment_2640" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Fast lil guy![/caption]

This little guy was so fast that I stopped trying to take pictures and took a video instead...

(133) Mr. Tarantula by Ayevangabond

After our run-in with the fast lil' spider, J' got started on his work day and I felt quite dirty so I gathered up my stuff and headed for the ladies room. I take all of my stuff in my big bag (I call a purse) along with a gallon jug of water and I'm just a walk away from being clean again. I have really gotten over the whole "showering in public" thing. Sure there are those twinges of, "Oh my gosh, what if people think I'm homeless, what if people stare, or hear me in the stall?" Ya know what...I would rather get a couple stares from complete strangers then feel gross and dirty and feel like I stink...even though I don't...I don't, ask J'!! That's one thing I'm happy about, I do not have that stanky B.O. a lot of people have, thank goodness! So to make it easier than sitting here typing it all out, I did a short video (after my "shower") especially for those ladies that don't know where to start in the whole- I can't take a solar shower and don't have a shower in my rig- thing.  So here is that video...

(137) Showering in Public Places by Ayevangabond

The washing process only takes about 20 minutes, depending on what I have to do but I don't think that's too bad and BAM...I'm clean again! I feel so much better, awww... Time to get some things done! I worked on my blog a little bit, spicing it up a bit, changing the colors and adding some buttons...a little tweak is good here and there. Savannah and I went for a little jaunt in the field of grass. I tried to let her run off a leash, which I rarely do in public settings because she never listens to me, and of course she made me regret it about 10 whole seconds later! She bee-lined it to this construction worker (that was coming from the bathroom, walking in the field, back to his truck) barking with her hackles up, just going to town, circling him and bossing him around. Aye aye aye...how embarrassing! He just stood still and laughed at her while I hooked her back up to her leash...I tried! I don't know how to break her of that plus,  she would have never done that if Daddy were around. So, on the leash she stays with me...lil stinker!

It's starting to get dark now and we're still at the park, so we're going to start wrapping it up. We'll probably just head back down to the casino lots to catch our zzzz's for the night. Just a couple more days until Thanksgiving... is anyone doing anything fun!? Hopefully you'll get to spend time with family, friends or just people that make you happy!

We'll catch on the flip side yo'

(let me know if these videos work, please...thanks)

PEACE