Wednesday, April 16

This time the wake up was in the middle of the night when we found out the water wasn’t running. Our hose was completely frozen! It got down to at least 18 degrees out. We were very lucky to not have any damage to the RV itself, or even the hose. We managed to get back to bed, but Aidan woke up at 5:45 am, being new to Pacific time. We tried to get him to lie down in our bed, but finally let him play on his own until about 7, when we finally got up. We had planned on taking a relaxing morning, knowing we only had 4 hours of driving to do today. I guess relaxing didn’t include sleeping in. We made a big breakfast, and headed to the “yellow house” (office) to shower and do laundry. The building was very nice, as the RV park is fairly new. In addition to the laundry there were a couple of pool tables, a small store, a video game, and a big TV room with books and comfy chairs. Aidan enjoyed watching a few cartoons and doing puzzles while we took care of laundry. Dave even got a bit of computer time to get things done. On the way out of Elko we tried to get my phone fixed, and failed, and tried to get the pilot light on the oven fixed, and failed. The phone will have to wait until I get home, but hopefully we’ll be able to find someone in Reno to fix the oven. Aidan slept about half the way to Reno, making for an even better drive length. We checked in to the River’s Edge RV Park for the night. It is the most urban of the parks so far, and is pretty big. As the name implies, it is on the river, which we can see out the window. There’s a nice park area and walking/biking trail going by. We took a brief walk along the path, hoping for fire pits, but no luck. It’s finally warm enough for a fire. People were in T-shirts as we pulled in, but as the sun went down we quickly cooled off even in our sweatshirts. It was still a nice walk, and Aidan found a lot of good dirt to play in. We headed back to make dinner and relax for the evening. We’re also close to an airport, and seem to be directly under the landing approach, so there was a lot of plane watching this evening. Let’s hope we don’t hear them all night.