River Bend RV Park Kinder,LA

Woke up this morning and looked outside and WOW, I think we did score an awesome spot. We will only have one person next to us because our spot back right up to the Calcasieu River. 

The day is overcast and boy was it chilly when I walked out to take pictures. I love being up before anyone around me It is so quite you could hear a pin drop in the RV Park.

The people are very friendly, the spots are all FHU and concrete pads that are level. For some people some of the spots here might to to close, to me they do not look really cramped. The price is $20 a night I am not sure of the weekly or monthly rates but you can check them out on their website www.riverbendrvpark.net . If you were like us looking for a Rv park at a casino last minute since we did not know when we were getting paid and they are all booked, this place is awesome and they have plenty of spots open. 
I posted the pictures of what I took this morning before I froze on my Facebook page (they take forever to load on here) The link is below or you can find the link on the top right of the blog itself. You can always follow me on Facebook for quick updates and pictures before I write the blogs.
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 OH and I think we ended up looking pretty straight ;-)

I Vow To Never Pull In To A RV Park At Night

We are out of San Antonio! and we could not be happier. Nothing against San Antonio, but I think I saw everything I needed to see and I do not think we ever have a reason to go back to TX other then to drive through it to go west. 

Drove all day and we finally made it to our RV park River Bend RV Park in Kinder, LA I could not tell you what it looks like currently since it is dark but I will update everyone with how the place looks in the AM. We are 8.6 miles from the casino that we will be spending our NYE at Coushatta. 

No why I vow to never pull into a RV park at night and try to set up. It is so dark here and the spot we are in is right next to a river AWESOME RIGHT!!! yes except there is a hill drop down and yes we almost drove off the hill!!! Getting straight in the awesome cement pad that is level, so we do not look like rookies when people look our way in the light was complicated more then it should have been. There was a soft spot near our site and we do not have 4X4 so I am worried about getting stuck and looking like fools. Lets be honest here, I can drive this beast down the road just fine, when it comes to trying to tell someone how to park it I AM NOT GOOD YET!! I will get there, I say well let me drive and you guide and yes that worked way better only took maybe 8 tries lol... 

Crazy puppies in your ear while parking makes it more of a challenge. I know there have been such awesome travel puppies sleeping all day YAY except for when we get to the park and they are hyper and ready to play. Once we got parked and leveled puppies gates were set up and they are happy puppies/cat. 

We are so happy to be parked for a few days and to celebrate our NYE at the casino. Now time to find some food and relax for the rest of the night, kinda hard knowing the casino is so close and we have not been since last year. No I do not have a gambling problem LMAO. btw I cant wait to see how straight we are in the spot in the AM

This Is So True!!

This is so true with the full-time journey that we are living! I am always looking forward and not back!! 

Came Across This AMAZING IDEA

With the New Year right around the corner I came across this awesome idea to celebrate 2016. I can only hope everyone will join us with this awesome challenge 

Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!!!!

Christmas Gift's 2015

In this mist of posting about finishing tree's and our next destination I forgot to post the most amazing gift my hubby gave me for Christmas and the awesome gift's I gave him.

Of course as always we did Christmas early hubby was so excited to give me my gift that he could not wait. I made him open all his gifts first because I love to see his face when he opens his gifts makes me so happy. He received a new Keurig that he so badly needed, a hammer drill that he fell in love with when he used it in MI, a new hiking backpack with hydration, hiking polls and a survival kit you never know when you will need one, a few shirts and some other small things I love seeing him so happy.

Now it was my turn, there was only two gifts under the tree for me and I could not wait to get into them. He gave me the bigger of the two gifts first I tore it open and it was a tree tag box?!? I was puzzled lol. I ripped the box open and before I even got the gift out of the box, my jaw dropped and I began to cry... I could not believe it was the camera that I have been dreaming about...... The Canon Rebel T3I all I could do was hold it. It came with the standard lens I was still in aww and he said "thats not all your have one more gift to open" All I was thinking was it could not get any better then this right? I opened the second gift and it looked to be a box of Saltine crackers, now I know I love crackers...but crackers for a gift lol... I guess he ran out of boxes, I ripped the box open and I could not believe it, it was the 75-300mm lens HOLY $h!T of course being the crier I am, I started crying and saying "thank you thank you thank you" I still could not believe it I finally got my camera.

Now that I have it I have so much to learn I see a photography class in my near future. I can not wait to take amazing pictures and share everything I see with you all.

Ever since we got married I have been telling him how awesome it would be to have a Canon Rebel camera. His response was you cell phone has a camera almost as good, and of course I would say OK even tho I really really wanted this camera. I would always pull him over to the camera section in every store we went and I would stare at this camera in hopes that he would say "OK we can get it" but that never happens. I love taking pictures and anyone who knows me knows that on my computer I have over 10,000 pictures YES 10,000. So in my mind I need this awesome camera because my current camera ...well had been operated on by hubby to fix it and it is still temperamental and I am missing awesome picture opportunities all I could say was "one day in my dream's maybe one day I will get it" 

Merry Christmas everyone hope your Christmas was memorable and special in every way now it is time to bring in the NEW YEAR and continue our crazy adventure in our house on wheels!!! 

Cedar Key, Florida Is Our Next Destination

We can not wait to get to our next destination.... We are going to Cedar Key, FL for a month. We came across a local artist who wanted some help building a tree house and doing a few other things around her house. We talked it over and decided that we could use a break vacation after working the Sugar Beet Harvest and Christmas Tree's back to back with very little break. 

The local artist has a RV pad on her property so we will be staying there. I am looking for to sand in my toes and who knows if I get crazy maybe even taking a dip in the ocean. With the way the weather is it may not be that cold ;-) 

As soon as we are released from our lot we will be heading in that direction and could not be more excited. If anyone has visited Cedar Key and have a MUST SEE/MUST EAT place please share with me. I love checking out unique cool places where ever we are.

Of course there will be a pit stop's in between, We will be spending our New Years Eve at a casino in LA it is our tradition since we did not get to keep our tradition of spending our Christmas at a casino we have to do it for NYE. After we leave there we will be stopping at my sister-in law for a few days we miss her and she is looking forward to seeing us for a few days it is nice to see family.

Merry Christmas We Are Done Selling Tree's

I know I know I have not had anytime to post during the selling season. I will give you a recap of how our season went this year with Holiday Hill's Christmas Tree's. 

The beginning of the selling season started early this year our first day open was Nov 20th. It started out slow as it should who is going to buy there tree before Thanksgiving lol. I was wrong you would be surprised we were selling around 10 tree's a day before Thanksgiving, With family coming to town and who may not be in town for Christmas I guess the celebrate both. 

It went into full swing on black Friday!!! People piled in the lot with smiles on their face ready to find their tree. At this point we were selling tree's so fast that our lot was bare, as soon as we would stand a tree someone would buy it. That whole weekend was like that by the end of Sunday our lot was so bare and we had no tree's in back stock, looks like we are going to need more tree's off to the warehouse in the a.m. 

During the week days it was somewhat slow until about 6:30pm when people flood the lot. So we spent the morning/afternoon hours restocking the lot and getting ready for the rush that evening. We had the best crew we could have had all the other lots had trouble keeping people, our crew started the first day with us and went all the way to the end. One of our guys worked 245 hours the whole season total not once complained about it. We can only hope that if we are at this lot next year that we can get the same crew back. 

The rest of December we were busy almost everyday at some point in the day. We did so well this year that every lot (14 of them) sold out of tree's by December 20th our lot was out of Tree's on December 18th WOO HOO......... Our last tree was was a 4 1/2 Grand and the guy who bought it said "I made his Grand Daughter happy since there were no other tree's in the city in our area left" That would be true, Wal-mart, H.E.B, Home Depot, and Lowes in our area ran out of tree's before us maybe there was a shortage of tree's this year. 

Once our last tree was sold we did our happy dance it was a blast but now that it is over we are so ready to move on and journey to our next destination. We still have to tear down the tent, my cashier booth, and all the electrical,sign and clean up the lot. Since we have a few days there is no rush they are not picking up the tents until at least Saturday. 

The lot was cleaned up by the 23rd it looks so different without everything in it looks like it is ready for a circus to come to town lol. Christmas day rolls around and we have a end of season party to go to. A lunch will be served we are doing a gift exchange and a recap of the season. Once the festivities are over we took a group picture said our goodbyes and headed back to our 5er. We spent the rest of Christmas day putting a new floor in and boy does it look awesome not completely finished but I will post pictures once complete if my camera will work :-(

Even tho all the stuff is gone the tent will be picked up soon along with the dumpster,potties and fence we are still sitting here after we have been done for almost 10 days. I have to say this is the only part I am disappointed about, We are not making anymore money everything is cleaned up we are sitting exposed to the road waiting for our pay. I have to say that we did our part showed up on time, sold out of all the tree's they have, got all the stuff back to the warehouse in a timely manner, so why can't they pay us so we can move on to our next destination. I am writing this still sitting here waiting working for a month or so with no pay coming in and deplete your savings so in order to move on we need the $$$ lol...