LAILA, & A PAIR OF GYPSIES

Marc and Laila in the motor home before dinner.

Marc dropped Laila off at her pre-school yesterday morning on his way to work, and we picked her up at 2pm. It was about the same time that Patty was on the phone with a prospective employer, interviewing for a job at the Grand Canyon this summer. It looks like she'll be formally offered a job in the gift shop/grocery store, at the south rim village. The written offer is on it's way, and now, we have to wait for my bus driving application to work it's way through the channels. If I'm offered the driving job, it comes with a subsidized RV parking space in the village, and that's one of the puzzle pieces that has to fit, in order for us to spend this summer at the Canyon. I was told that it might be as late as April before I have an answer, so now we play the waiting game.

After we picked up Laila, we stopped at the local park, where Laila played on the slides and swings, before we drove back to the Tucson Fairgrounds where the motor home is parked.

As the pictures show, it was another beautiful day, about 70 degrees, and not a cloud in the sky.

When Marc got off work, he came by the Fairgrounds, and we visited awhile before I BBQ'd a tri tip for dinner. After Laila ate ALL of her dinner, except a couple pieces of asparagus, she got a special treat that Grandpa had picked up at the grocery store. When that was gone, they went home, and will be back this morning. We have Laila all day today, until Marc gets off work.

Around 1pm yesterday, as we returned from the grocery store, we noticed Nick & Terry Russell's motor home parked in front of the RV office. They are the publishers of the RV travel newspaper The Gypsy Journal www.gypsyjournal.net, that we have been subscribers for many years. I follow Nick's daily blog, and knew they would be arriving in Tucson yesterday, but didn't know they would be stopping here at the fairgrounds. This is just an overnight stop for them, and they didn't have much time, so after a short visit, we said we would see them at their Gypsy Rally in Yuma, starting on March 7th. The picture below, is their motor home, as Nick passed by on the way to their RV space.