Just plain Frozen.

The burgers and swim party had to be postponed due to thunderstorms and rain in the area.  We will try again tomorrow.  Instead, we gathered at the land-based house and watched the movie Frozen for the evening’s entertainment.  A cute and fun story that showed me the play the other day had all the essential elements included from the movie.  Made me appreciate the effort put forth by our granddaughter even more as we realized Princess Anna is one of the main characters in the movie.

We also found out that the next play will be based upon the Despicable Me movies.  The part our granddaughter is rehearsing for now is one of the minions, in fact, the head minion in the movie.  There are less speaking lines but more action and a couple of songs that she has the lead singing part.  This will be interesting to say the least.  I cannot wait but more on that later after the big day arrives.

Wednesday has more rain and thunderstorms so the burgers and swimming have been postponed for yet another day, much to the dismay of the budding actress.  Gran and Bibi were summoned this morning by mama to help with taxi duty.  All three grandchildren had dentist appointments this morning and two had to be fed and carried to camp afterward in locations thirty miles apart.  Due to the timing, mama would not be able to get both to camp on time without some grandparent help.

We volunteered to meet her at the dentist office and retrieve one of the campers, feed him and get him to camp on time.  Mission accomplished but not without some interesting moments for Bibi.  While he was eating in the back seat of the car as we traveled, he calmly announces there is a lizard in the car.  Bibi is immediately struck with the thought; ‘this thing might make a move for my leg if I am not watchful.’  The rest of the trip to camp was interspersed with Bibi's questions about where is he now, has he moved, etc. etc.

I think our young camper was quite ready to head to camp by the time we arrived at our destination, since he was out the door and running inside before the car fully stopped rolling.  But he did not get away quick enough as he had to give one last update on the whereabouts of this lizard.  I took Bibi (and the lizard) back to the RV park so we could plan our strategy on how best to extract the unwelcome guest in the car.  I asked her if she wanted me to get him out and the response was I do not want him in the car any longer.

So a plan was devised using a stick, broom and towel as tools/weapons in the extraction process.  The back doors were opened, me on one side and Bibi on the other.  The lizard was located and prodded with the stick to make sure he was alive and well.  He did not appreciate the invasion of his space and immediately took off which left the extractors frantically following and chasing his movements with the broom and towel in an attempt to keep him from hiding under the seats.  Fearlessly, Bibi actually made the extraction as the lizard paused momentarily on the floor in front of her.  With a flick of the wrist, the towel made contact and the lizard found himself flying through the air only to land on his feet on the ground outside the car.  Mission accomplished!!!  …and Bibi is breathing normally once again.

As an aside, while we were traveling between dentist office, burger place and Melissa to deliver our camper, we noticed a school bus parked in a parking lot next to Chick-Fil-A.  Name of the school district prominently painted on the side of the bus: Paradise ISD.  Somehow, I think a survey of the students in that school district would dispute the name and show they are open to changing it.

We finally got to have a burger and swim party tonight.  The elements and the schedules finally aligned to create a perfect afternoon/evening to get together.  The only hitch was a faulty LP gas regulator for the portable grill.  It was locked into an open position and would not shut off the flow of gas.  Since the little bottles (unlike their bigger cousins) do not have a shutoff valve, then this situation makes grilling impossible as there is gas escaping from the moment a bottle is attached with no way of lighting or turning off the flow after it is lit nor adjusting the flow.  So a hunt began at Lowes, then Home Depot and finally threw in the towel at Academy to find a replacement for the portable grill.  These big box stores only carry the portable grills as a unit with no parts but have plenty of parts for the bigger cousins.  Guess we will research online to find a replacement part. 

To cook the burgers, two of us loaded up and went to the land-based home and used the bigger cousin to cook the meat.  After they were cooked, we loaded back up and returned to the motorhome to enjoy the (finally cooked) burgers.  We also enjoyed celebrating with the son-in-law his 40^th birthday.  He really does not look a day over 40.  We enjoyed a good time sitting outside, visiting and watching the Rangers lose another game.  This is the first time in a long-time they did not have any activities to prevent them from enjoying each other and the visit.  But it is short lived as tomorrow; we will attend another matinee presentation and then make our way to the baseball diamond that evening for the start of the younger grandson’s regional tournament.  More on this later, until then be safe and adventurous.