King Kong For Real

Here is a photo of the true King of the Jungle. This guy posed for me while we were on the Pangani Forest Trail at Animal Kingdom.

It was a rainy Monday, January 3oth, so we decided it would be a great day to do housekeeping chores. Actually it is fun to take a day out to shine up the RV. On Sunday, I had bought new flowers to brighten up the RV. When I first started buying fresh flowers, Mel just rolled his eyes at me. But now, he is on the look out for pretty bouquets so it has been fun for me. Please do not rib him about this as he will stop playing along with this. It is nice that he is being nice.

While we were at Caribbean Beach, I looked up satellite dish installers. Since it was raining, I called a company that advertised trouble shooting. To our delight, they were willing to come to Fort Wilderness to service the dish that afternoon. I called campground security so they would let them in. When they arrived, it turned out that they were a husband and wife team. Kim did the inside work and Rich the outside. After checking our set up and determining that we had all the wiring correct, they started checking the equipment. Of course, with their equipment, they immediately got a signal. So what had gone wrong? Ready for this? The receiver that we bought from Miami's Best Buy was defective. There was no voltage output. Now, this was a unit that came out of a sealed box so who would have thought it would be the problem.

Frankly, we were so relieved because we just knew between the two of us that we had done every step over and over. The other thing that we found out was that we could not use the unit with the recording device because it requires a phone line, which of course, we do not have because we are in an RV. By the time, we were finished with Kim and Rich, we had made new friends, had all the equipment installed and wired along with the VCR so I can still record what I want to. What is cool is that Rich set it up so that we can have local and DirecTV on both the living room and bedroom TV's. Kim made sure that we were activated with DirecTV service so we could watch satellite TV right away. Two hours and $100.00 later, we had satellite TV. We were so grateful that we gave Kim and Rich a tip to cover Friday night dinner on us.

To celebrate our day, we went to see Tristan and Isolde, a historical tale about ancient Ireland and England with a wonderful tragic love story. This was a much better movie than New World. There was dialogue, action, romance and story. We love that.

Mel was on a roll so at 11 p.m., he decided that it was a perfect time to do laundry. He was right. All five washers in our area were available but then again, consider the time. By 1 a.m., we were back to the RV with our nice, clean, warm, folded laundry. What a nut case!