Meteor Crater Christmas paryt 12/10

Saturday  12/10/11
Meteor Crater Christmas party was held at the Quality  Inn in Winslow at 7pm. In attendence was about 50+ employees and family/guests.  Dinner was really good.  Then Santa came in to pass out presents for the kids.  Later a drawing for some great prizes for all employees. The grand prize was 32" TV.   Fun evening. The party committee did a great job.  Happy Holidays.
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30+ pictures of event in my web album.   
https://picasaweb.google.com/frankflp/MCChristmasParty?authkey=Gv1sRgCLqeltyppdivMA#

Me

my dinner

Santa-played by employee Richie

my prize- cookie jar filled with cookies

Me with co-worker Faith

Beginning to feel like Christmas at Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater Vistor Center in Arz
Staff got into the mode of decorating.  Looks good.

me

Rock shop

Gift shop

Me

Crater with some snow

Flagstaff adventure 12/4

sunday  12/4
Decided to head out to Flagstaff for a movie at 10:30am.  Movie was Breaking Dawn#1, good one if you are watching the Twilight saga series.  After the movie some lunch.  Then a drive up to Lowel Observatory for the view of flagstaff.   From here a drive to the airport ( just a few miles) to get a geocache in the snow.  Right of the road. Just 200ft but walking in 12-14" of snow.  Then had to dig the container out. It was by a tree stump which was easy to locate it.  From here a drive to the flagsaff Mall.  Did some shopping.  Back at the RV around 4pm  to see the last half of the football game Cowboys / Cardinals.  Yeaa the cardinals won,

Need to trun left for the movies

View of Flag

On my way to the geocache. Saw the kids skating on the pond

geocache.  Got it

walking away from the cache site

decoration at the Mall

Trip to Winslow 12/3

saturday 12/3
More snow in the morning.  Time to get out.  :)  Headed to winslow (20 mi east).  Some new geocaches were placed last week.   First stop at a old Trading post by the train area.  From there
to the La Pasada hotel for lunch. A little on the high end but very good. Then 3 more caches. A quick stop at the Dollar store. Back to the RV.   

More snow this am on my punkin

yes a geocache on the box car-a little magnet container

at La Pasada - Turquoise dinning room

decoration at La Pasada

La Pasada

geocaching- old historical blg

Historical site

geocache under a cow pie

Snow at MC RV park 12/2

Friday 12/2  
My day off and wake up to snow.    Pretty but........    
Had a Doctor's appt (dermatology) in Flagstaff at 11:15am.  The drive there wasn't bad, like a winter wonder land.  From there off to get a new Jeep battery. Some shopping at Wal-Mart and back home.
Long day.  Yes it snow on/off all day.  Fun adventure, I think.

where's the jeep??

new Wal-Mart in Flagstaff

Trip to Yuma 11-24-27

Thanks Giving weekend    11/24-27 (thur-sun)
After work at Meteor Crater (closed at 1pm) headed to Yuma.  Its a 5 1/2 drive. Once there I had a late Turkey plate waiting for me. 
Friday.   Mark came in from Quartzite and the three of us (mark,andy & me) went shopping and then to the movie- Tower Heist.  Funny.  That evening, card game ( 9 of us).
Saturday.  Breakfast, then some geocaching.  Dinner at Chile's.
Sunday. Lundry and some relaxing before heading back to Meteor Crater RV park.

geocaching

This is called a travel bug hotel- big locker at a Shell Gas station  where U can drop or retrieve TB's

Holbrook geocaching 11/20

sunday  11/20   Holbrook
After getting a haircut at Wal-Mart in Winslow, headed  to Holbrook about an 1/2 hour drive on I-40. Some of the caches were Historical.  Geat lessons.  Plus some fun ones.  The cache I couldn't find was at the Courthouse. Went  inside the museum to see if the Curator knew anything about the cache. Turns out the little jail house, where the cache would be hidden on, was removed from the property on friday for the Holbrook christmas parade on 12/3.  Funny.  Informed the cache owner and he has archived it for the moment.   Met another geocacher which is always cool.   Found 6 of them before heading back to the RV.

Hotel built in 1888.  Then in 1950 it was used for dorms in a Federal pgm for the Native Am students

Old bank then later a retail store

cute park -geocache was hidden within the windmill structure

geocache hidden in the "S"

old school house in Jack Rabbit off of I-40. Geocache was behind building

RV projects 11/20

sunday  11/20
Today I worked around the RV here at Meteor Crater RV park.  Drained water holding tank and the
water heater.  The plug was hard getting to turn.  Blew out the water pipes with air compressor. Empty the holding tanks.  I use water from gal bottles now.  Restroom is right next door.  This is all in preparation when I leave in Dec.  Leaving the RV here since I coming back the end of Feb. Off to
Wal-Mart for a hair cut  then for some  geocaching in Holbrook

Replacing RV converter

friday   11/18
Well last week I replace the RV batteries.  Got 4 yr out of the old ones.  I was told that if a cell or battery was dead then the converter wouldn't charge the battery.  But starting the RV engine would charge them.  In three days the converter wasn't charging.   On friday, Derek & I started the
project.  The owners manual indicated the converter was under the bed---nope.  Did some Google searching and found someone who stated it was behind the Elec Distribution panel.  Once we removed
there it was..... Mmmmm.  Tiny space to work in.  Took the converter to Flagstaff RV to have it it tested, yep it was dead.  They had the same one, cool but the cost of $280.00.  Wow  It went in faster then pulling it out.  Everthing is working.  Good.

converter where are u?

new converter

ready to close up

Return from LV #4-4 11/13

... con't Las Vegas trip   Blog#4 of 4
11/13/11  sunday  Returning to Meteor Crater
Kathy & Dereck had a 10am Presentation to attend which turned out to be  3 hour session. In the meantime I worked on my computer and later read my E-book.  Finally headed back to MC. In bullhead city we got caught in a 1 hr traffic jam.  Arrived at MC  around 8pm. It was a great 3 day adventure with Kathy/Derck.   thanks for the fun

entrance to Club36

lobby

check in desk

view of the building

our rooom

me

kathy & dereck

looking at MGM from the Club36

tour of the master 3 bed room suite

Traffic jam in Bullhead city