Tuesday, March 22, 2011

STILL IN VALENCIA, CA

Thought we would give you an update on our visit here in California.  We arrived here at Valencia Village RV Resort on Jan. 23, and have kept ourselves pretty busy.  Our days usually begin with the three of us going for a long walk.  Of course you understand that when I say the 3 of us that it includes Angel.  There are so many areas to walk that are but a few minutes drive to get to.   The cities and community developers really put a lot of thought (and dollars) into creating these fantastic walking/biking trails.

So far we have attended a number of shows at the College of the Canyons Theater.  Andrea's son Adam is the Managing Director of the theater and is responsible for bringing in the various acts.  We have enjoyed acrobats from China, a musical, "All Shook Up", a Cabaret on Valentines day that had tables set up on stage where we sat in a very intimate setting being entertained by an excellent entainer.  It was really a fun evening.  The show we really got into was a tribute band to Queen named Gary Mullin and the Works.  They were really, really good, and had the whole audience on their feet.  If we had lighters we would have been lighting them off as we were really rockin.

A few weeks ago we had a Murphy Cousins Reunion at my cousins house.  He lives only about 45 minutes from where we are staying.  It was great seeing them as well as my Aunt and Uncle who also live in the area.
We will be getting together again before we leave the area.

So what is ahead for us?

We will be leaving this campground on April 23, and will be doing some sight seeing in the northern part of California.  Yosemite National Park is high on the list as well as Napa Valley.  We will be meeting Adam in Carmel on May 27 - June 2.  On June 3 we start heading east to Branson, MO.  Why Branson?  We have decided to try "Workamping".  What's that, you say?  In exchange for 2 days work we get our camp site for free.  Where we are staying is a city park and therefore are considered city employees.  The big benny is since we are city workers we get into most of the shows for free, and some of the shows at a discount.  Branson is known for it's entertainment.  We feel that this should be a real fun time for us.  We start June 10 and will be there until mid-October.  At that point we will be heading back east.  More on those plans later.

Bye for now.

Miles of smiles,
Charlie and Andrea