March 10 and 11, 2010

Wednesday 10~~~~~The "Gypsy Journal" Rally was held in Yuma this year at the fair grounds, Kent and I went for one day, meeting our friends Cyndi & Howie there. They had several vendors that Kent learned a lot from at their classes and he bought some of their merchandise. I went to the Blogger class and it wasn't very informative. Too many jokes and stories and not enough information. Last year it was held in Casa Grande and our friends John & Linda, Cyndi & Howie, Kent and I all went with our rigs. We had a lot of fun at it together during the day and playing cards together in our trailer at night. We went out for dinner with Cyndi and Howie tonight and we played cards at our trailer until rather late. We sure have fun together.
Thursday 11~~~~~This morning Kent and I got up early and we drove to the orange and lemon Groves where they are pruning the trees after the pickers finish picking. They prune them almost square looking and Kent has been driving these country roads for several days trying to find them working to see what kind of a machine they use to do it. We finally found a machine in one of the orchards and the operator told us all about the machine and he let us take pictures of it working. He also told us we could pick some oranges the pickers left on the trees. They pick Oranges and Lemons by hand, they will pick a orchard 3 or 4 times according to the size of Lemons the buyers want. We picked a nice bag full and we headed back to the park to pick up Cyndi and Howie to ride to Mexico with us for lunch and to pick up their medicine. We had a wonderful lunch of shrimp and fish tacos again and we picked up the medicine and each of a bottle of booze. The line crossing the border was a little long, but the people around us were nice and the time went fast. The border officers made Kent and I take our booze back because we had taken a bottle over this month. Kent took our bottles back and I waited for him in the border office. They usually don't ask you when was the last time you carried some over, when they do, people just say a date 30 days prior to the current date. I was so scared, I couldn't lie, I just told him the truth and he took mine away and Kent gave his up too. You can dump it down the drain or take it back, so Kent took it back. You don't have to get in the long line, they take you right through, so it was OK except we didn't get our Booze. The Customs Officer said if we drove over, you can take 6 bottles each back every 30 days. Figure that one out. What a day this turned out to be!!!!