Orange County East

20315
2.45
Ah, It's a dry heat!!
Phoenix AZ

Powered through and found a nice campground just north of town with a great pool and work out room.

It was actually hard to find a place in the area - 98% of the campgrounds are 55 or older only. Yes, I made up that statistic, but I don't think I'm that far off.

We made it up half way on a camelback mountain hike - too steep to negotiate safely with Zoe in backpack and Kes in front pack - good hike none the less though.
A couple of days later, we also did a Squaw Peak circumference trail for about 3 miles, we left later and felt the heat on this one though.


The high lite of AZ for Zoe was this little play land in a park in Phoenix - all of the rides were centered on 2-6 year olds - no older kids to ruin things.

She had an absolute blast riding all of the rides "by myself".

She did great on the roller coaster - by the last ride she would let go and raise one hand into the air just like "the big kids".

Enjoying the warm evening.

We really just hung out alot at the campground here - tires of traveling and driving and it was about 105 degrees everyday so being outside wasn't exactly easy with the kids.

Had a scare one morning - the propane alarm went off at 4am.

That sucker is LOUD!! So loud, neither Missy nor I could actually locate where the noise was coming from. So, at 4 am - I dismantled the stereo and then took the speakers out the ceiling thinking it was from them. When that didn't work, I unplugged the trailer from the electric outlet - no help. Then I undid the battery on the front of the trailer - success, at least at turning off the noise. I re hooked the battery a few minutes later and sure enough it started again - but this time Missy noticed the propane alarm light was red instead of its usual green. Then I got really scared because we knew we had propane all around us. I turned off the propane tanks and we opened all the windows and door and kept all power to the trailer off and went back to sleep for 2 hours. :) Amazingly, Zoe and Kes slept through the whole thing!! We couldn't believe it because it was so loud our ears were ringing for 15 minutes even after the alarm stopped. We had a repair guy come by the next day and the system held pressure fine - it seems it was the probably the oven pilot leaking a little - anyway, no problems with anything since.