Still Cold in PA!

Ken and I were up at 7 - much needed rest!  We left at 8:30 to meet Sam and Kathy at a local restaurant for breakfast.  So nice to visit with them.  We spent over 2 hours just "catching up" on each others lives.  After stopping at Target Ken and I went back to the apartment, but just for an hour.

We left at 12:45 to go to visit with my parents and play Pinochle, their favorite card game.  We stopped to get mother some cappaciano and a pot of miniature daffodils.  She loves flowers and was so excited to have some "live flowers" in her room.  We had a great time playing cards with them.  We were able to play 4 games of pinochle before we left and the women were victorious every game - wow!  Sadly we said our good-byes, for we will be leaving for our western trip next Tuesday and will not be able to see them again before we leave.  Right now their health is very good and we just hope that continues while we are gone.

We picked up our "older" CRV on the way home and Marty said we definitely had a faulty and old radiator.  Hopefully that will be the only fix required. 

We got a very disturbing and frustrating call from Sam, our service rep at Lazydays.  The part that was ordered to fix our slide will not be at Lazydays until April 15 and we are scheduled to leave there on the 10th.  Both of us were "none to happy" to say the least.  It appears that Winnebago and some other manufacturers of motorhomes have switched to Schwintek slide-out mechanisms made by Lippert and are having some major issues. Obviously, we are not the only people with this problem.  Seems to Ken and I that Lippert should be making a "ton" of these parts so the ongoing problems can be addressed in a timely manner.  But no, they appear to be on back order.  Ken and I both felt badly for Sam, for she is just the messenger.  None the less, we are not happy about living without a slide for another 3 or 4 weeks. She could easily sense our frustration.

Ken and I did some more talking about the situation and I told him I would be happy to make some phone calls to the service manager at Winnebago and have more dialog with Sam. Ken was really at the point of "no return".  I did leave a message for both parties and hope to hear back from them tomorrow.  Not sure what more we can do, but I do want to be pro-active!

I spent the evening doing more pages in Katelyn's album and watching The Voice.  Ken sent a long text to Chuck and Melissa about our problem and they called us as soon as they got the message - how nice of them.  Ken, Chuck, and Melissa had a long conversation and they gave us some additional ideas of what we could try to do.  After the call, Melissa went on-line and found some forums for us to check out and some phone numbers for Lippert, the maker of the needed parts.  What great friends!  We will do more research and pursue some more avenues tomorrow!  This whole situation is exhausting!