We had a good Dec and Christmas, was quite different this year our first one on the road, but very pleasent, we had dinner with 200 people some we had already made friends with, all the food was excellent at least what I tried was and of course ate way to much.



Went shopping at Wal Mart early on in the month (go at least once a week) something just draws me there!!! Any way we saw something most different, there were about six men on horse back riding the parking lot so we stopped and ask what was going on, they were all rangers and they parole the lot durning the month of Dec, did not start this year at the beginning of month as were told company needed to cut back, well all the customers wanted to know where they were and when told they started making calls, and the company had so many calls they brought them back to finish out the month, they have been doing this for the past six years, kind of nice to see them there, guess the regulars got used to them being there, so it did make a difference!



Went for a beautiful ride thru Gold Canyon and will go back to take the Dolly Steam Boat tour one day soon, was way to cold that day, in fact for about a week we were wondering if indeed we were in AZ. as it was cold and rainy, had the heat on both day and night! All is good now the days are back to high 70's and cooler in morning and evening, very enjoyable!



New Years Eve was spent at a camp fire right across form our site and we all had pizza and lots of good conversation, early evening as none of us made it till midnight!



Yesterday went into Fountain Hills, it is best known for their fountain which goes off every hour for about 15 minutes and shoots three hunderd and thirty feet into the air using one nozzel with seven air jets, there is another nozzel and they use it for back up, but can be used all together and it shoots up five hundred and sixty feet. Got a few photos and will try to get one down loaded.

Looking forward to this year being even better than last as we are very blessed to be able to travel around the US and seeing all that we can and making new friends along the way!

Wishing all my family and friends a VERY HEALTHY, BLESSED AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!