April 13th

Boy, I have been bad lately not writing a blog for over a week.  We have made it back to the Tacoma Area with not much problems.  We had to do a little work on the truck but that is mostly maintenance stuff.  But we did have to put a new Power steering pump on, it does have 260000 miles on it so some stuff will wear out.  All and all the truck is doing pretty good.
We got back to town on Thursday evening and had dinner with Jason and his family.  We are staying here at his place while in town.  It is fun seeing the girls, they are growing so fast and they really enjoy their grand parents.  We came into town early so that we could see MJ in the Daffodil Parade on Saturday.
On Friday we got invited to Makenzie's Birthday at a Mongolian Restaurant.  The food was OK, but the time with these two were great.

It is hard to believe that she is 12, they grow up way to fast.  Mikeal is looking good to and it was good to see the both of them, I wish they would come and spend more time with their Dad though, that way we can see more of them.

Here is a picture of all of Jason's kids,  I know he enjoys seeing them any time he can.
Saturday morning we were up and on our way to the Parade.

Here they are getting the horses ready for the parade.  As you can tell these are real big horses.  MJ will be walking one with the help of her mom and Jason will be walking Peter who is here in there picture.

Here is Tinkerbell, this is MJ's horse but I think mom does most of the work with her.  But it is fun watching how MJ moves Tinkerbell around and she does just about everything that MJ wants her to do.

I think someone is getting a little bored, having to hurry up then wait to leave for the parade.

OK, now I am happy I can ride Tinkerbell.  I would say by next year she will be riding her.  Jason said she does pretty good with the saddle on her, but during the parade they were not sure how she would do with all the noise.  So this year they are walking them.

Here comes our little princess with her horse.

Look at that she even knows the Daffodil Parade wave down.  They made it all the way through the parade with out getting rained on.  We had a great day and it was kind of nice watching a little bit of the parade.
We have been looking for a while for a new 5th wheel toy hauler.  We have looked at a lot of models, walked into them and some of them we walked right back out.  After over 6 months of looking at a lot of models we finally found the one that we wanted and will hold up to the type of traveling we do.  It is a 2015 Dutchman Voltage V3970.
 
Here is a copy of the floor plan.  It has a nice living area and kitchen area which we do not have now.  It also has the bed and bath area that we like, and the most import thing Cyndy likes it!!!! Here is a web site that you can look at some of the pictures of it http://dutchmen.com/voltage/floorplans/floorplans-detail/?modelId=6741.
We get to pick it up next Monday.  We had been working with two other dealers and this one finally came into the price we wanted for our old coach and for the new one.  Every one is happy.  We have been unloading it here at our kids place of everything but food and cloths.  We will be leaving here Friday and heading to Pasco, Washington for our walk through on Monday morning.   So yes we have been busy, but I can still take some time and write at least every other day.  I will try and get better here in the future.
Oh yeah one more thing, we leave for Alaska in less then two months.