July 16, Haines

Woke up to rain this morning and it rained all day. We didn’t do much except tried to pick up our mail that has not yet arrived. Brad mailed us a Priority Mail package with all our mail to date from Iowa the end of June. As of today it isn’t here yet! The local Post Office said it could take 3 to 4 weeks. If it’s not here by Thursday we may have to have them send it back to Brad as we have no plans to be in any one place for a significant length of time. There is more to the story about the U. S. Postal Service but I won’t bore you with my complaining. Gage (Kimberly’s oldest boy) is playing in a 9-year old baseball tournament in Memphis this week and his game today was broadcast live on the internet. There are teams from several states in the tournament and they had to qualify to get there. We were able to get the game in the motorhome on our laptop with the WIFI connection here in the park but the picture and play-by-play was intermittent. The technology we have today is amazing but the broadband speed here in Haines wasn’t quite fast enough. Gage’s team, the Arizona CYCLONES, beat a team from Texas 5-0. Roger Snyder called today to tell us that Kirby is back in the states from his tour of duty in Iraq so all together we had a great day. Hoorah for our side!