Merry Christmas from Arizona

December 21, 2010


Merry Christmas!!

 We are all settled in Casa Grande, AZ. and are staying at a great RV Resort....Palm Creek.  In January, we understand that there will be about 1800 RV's in the park.  It is on a Golf Course and many of the people here are golfers, so we don't have an excuse any longer about not being golfers.  We have met some wonderful people and are looking forward to all the activities...tennis, exercize gym, golf, pickleball, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, swimming (2 pools), poker/billiards, library, dance classes, computer classes, yoga and pilates.... and great artistic things for Jill---pottery, painting, silversmith, basket weaving, woodworking, lapidary, sewing/quilting...haven't even discovered them all yet!   Steve even managed to find a nice Trap Club in town, so he can shoot trap every week! BBQ's are held every couple weeks in the main Activity Center and Vendors come once a month for a huge flea market with lots of artsy stuff!  Happy hour is also a daily activity here.....and with so many neighbors, we can travel to a different one every night, or just stay home on our patio and someone will surely show up to join us.
There is a casual dance every Saturday night in the ballroom with live music, so date nite is built right in!  We drove around the park last night in a golf cart to see all the decorated RV's and it took us an hour and a half just to see them all!  The park is just beautiful...with hundreds of big palm trees, all decorated with white Christmas lights. The golf course has a creek running through it and several ponds with fountains.  Harley loves the "dog park" and makes us take him for walks several times every day.  The weather has been great--in the 70's during the day and 50's at night.  We've had a couple rainy days, but that hasn't slowed us down a bit!  Even doing laundry is fun because the laundry building is adjacent to one of the pools, so I just put in the wash, sit by the pool, and wait till it's done.....couldn't be more fun!
We are only about 50 miles from Phoenix, so have made several trips there, and Tucson is about as far in the other direction.....but Casa Grande has everything we need and some great shopping centers, so we will get to know this area pretty well, I'm sure.
If you did not receive a Christmas card from me.....sorry.....please know that we are having a great time, but really miss our family and friends and are feeling a little guilty about missing all the snow!  We do wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope that you enjoy a Great 2011!

Here are some photos of our time here so far.....I'll try to keep up with the photo taking and will post again when we do something exciting!

Entrance gate to Palm Creek




 


the golf course on a morning walk



this is what we see on our walk every day



view of our neighborhood



Harley enjoying the "dog park"



Christmas lights out the back window of our RV



Just want to also include a picture we took last summer when Amy, Andy, Zoe, and Jackson were in Lewiston for a visit.  Was great to have them here with Sara, Cameron, Emily, Kathryn and us for our "Christmas in June"

what a great group.....our family is very  blessed!

Thanks for following our Blog.....we wish the best for you all and hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Love,

Jill, and Steve