While walking Jewel this morning Ron met Don and Martha Mack. They struck up a conversation and Ron was gone for a very Loooooong time. I headed out around 10 AM to find him and sure enough he was chatting up a storm with the Macks’. Ron told them about our plight and they offered to help if we needed them for anything.
Ron drove the car over to the Collision shop around 11 AM as instructed. After being dropped off at the MH Ron realized the cell phone had slipped off his belt and was on the way to the shop in the Jeep. So – no way for the repair shop to make contact with us.
Sooner then we would have thought Ron was back talking to Don and using his cell phone to call the repair shop. The plan going forward was to call the repair shop back to #1 – find out if the Jeep frame could be repaired and # 2 when could it be done.
After more conversation with Martha and Don (who already felt like old friends) we headed back to the MH for the waiting game to begin. Neither one of us was in a good mood so we didn’t get much accomplished.
Later that afternoon Don and Martha stopped by to see how we were doing and also to ask if we wanted to attend the variety show at the Rocky Mountain Opry on Friday evening. We did and off we went to buy tickets.
Since we knew we would be at the CG for an additional night we walked to the CG office to secure one more night. We were told on arrival that our site would be available through Friday but oh – contraire – no site for us – period!!!!! After some wrangling and down right begging – still no site. Our MH was too big for any of the few available sites left after the expected influx of people on Friday.
Well we had already purchased the show tickets and we were sure we wouldn’t be getting our car back until at least Friday so we had to secure a camp site somewhere else.
Once again Ron borrowed Don’s phone and called the repair shop. Good news – they could fix it and we would have the car back late Friday morning. OK – now the camp site issue and how to get our phone from the Jeep.
Once again, Don and Martha to the rescue. Not only did they take us to get the phone they even took us to secure a site at the Mary’s Lake CG. Sounded easy enough – pay for a site for Friday and Saturday and move in the morning. WRONG – the saga continued. Couldn’t secure a site unless we paid for three nights including Thursday. Since we already had a site for Thursday there was no need to book that night. Hello – I am speaking English?? Something has to go right, doesn’t it???? OK so we were left with – come back in the morning and you can book two nights but you can’t book two nights tonight??????????? Why Oh Why – Never did figure that one out.
After running us around we went out to dinner with Don and Martha at a local Italian restaurant. Again , great conversation and that feeling that we had been friends for life, not just the last few hours. How great was that and how lucky are we?
After dinner we walked around the town of Estes Park. Martha and I shopped while the men sat on the benches and chatted. It was a beautiful evening and we truly enjoyed ourselves.
Back at the CG we waited to see the black bear that walks through the CG nightly. We were lucky enough to get a glimpse of him but because it was so dark couldn’t get a clear picture.
We said good-night to our friends and headed back to the MH for some sleep and hopefully good news in the morning.
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