MEDFORD, MOM AND MOVING AUGUST 10-12 2012

We left the coolness of the coast and drove to the heat inland. Grants Pass and Medford were in the high 90s the whole weekend which made the interior of our motorhome even hotter. 

We got to Harry's Friday afternoon and set up our temporary camp site on his driveway. (I think we gave his neighbors a scare that we might have been the new owners moving in.) I spent the afternoon at Mom's then Harry, Mary, Paul and I went to the Craterian Theater for a wonderful performance of The Music Man that evening. Mary's 2 nieces were in the production presented by the TEEN MUSICAL THEATER OF OREGON. During intermission this Barbershop Quartet sang a few numbers for us out in the lobby. 

What an amazing evening! We had no idea, until talking later, that the performers were all local teen agers and youth from the greater Medford area. They were talented and polished performers, so professional; never missing a beat in any of the music or dance. Such a high energy production and so glad we got a chance to see it. 

Since we had Mandy's new KIA with us she took the late Greyhound bus from Portland to Medford arriving about midnight. The next day Mandy and I had a wonderful visit with Mom/Grandma. Such pretty ladies!

 Mandy was so excited with her new wheels and Paul was having a blast fixing up little details for her on it. A little spray paint,  radiator cleaning and getting the AC to work.

Paul and Harry were out there in the heat trying to figure out a couple of things that weren't quite working. Back and forth they went to car supply stores and always came back to this position.

 Saturday evening was spent in the beautiful backyard of Mary's sister, Joyce and husband, Steve. Doing the cooking was Mary's sister, Patty. We sat outside on the patio with a warm evening and enjoyed a delicious Asian dinner. What fantastic food and fun to spend time getting to now Mary's family. I'm just sad I didn't take any photos before the evening turned dark.

 Harry and Mary had been packing non stop in preparation for their move back to Green Valley, AZ. The house was 90% packed with 2 weeks left to go.  I was pretty impressed with all they had accomplished...I was having flashbacks to our move a year ago; never that much done so far ahead. 

Sunday morning we woke early, took a couple of photos since Paul still had a little more work to do on Mandy's car, by 11:30 she was on her way back to Portland after a few pointers from PK.

We decided not to hook up the car since the temp was over 100 degrees and we had 3 passes to climb just north of Grants Pass. Paul set out to get gas, I went back once again for a visit with Mom. We sat outside in the shade and she loved looking at all the trees and flowers. My next visit with Mom will be in Green Valley sometime this fall.

Our next designation was the Florence Elks RV Park to get back to the coast for the week.