Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man tired.

Ok, it was another 5am wake up day for us and then over to the service bays.  This time it was to have a 3" X 10' piece of aluminum trim painted.  So, how long did this take?  Would you believe all day long.  In fairness, the undercoat had to dry and then the next coat of paint.  Finally the stripes had to match the ones coming down the slide out.  Thankfully it was only 1 hour of total labor by the painter.  I remember when I worked for a garage and helped the painter prep and paint a car when I was younger and we could paint the whole car in one day.  Progress!

We finally got the motorhome back to the campsite and hooked back up around 4pm.  We discussed the bill with the service manager and he needs to check out a few things, but I am hopeful he doesn't try and charge us for work that was done wrong in late May while we were here and then had to be redone.  So far, they have been fair in what they charge and I expect that to be the case here.

We stopped at China King in Red Bay for lunch and it was about a 2 on a scale of 1 - 10.  Neither of us could finish what we put on our plate and even though it was an early lunch, the food was cold.  Lesson learned, don't go back to give them a 2nd chance.

They are forecasting some strong thunderstorms for the area on Thursday, so we are going to stay here another day and wait for the storms to roll on through.  So far it is just heavy rain and some winds up to 30-40 mph.  If that is all, then it will be no problem.  It will give us a chance to make sure all this slideout work didn't introduce some leaks in the MH.  

All in all, a very boring day, but at least all the work is finished.  

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