Vosslings Adventure Book: Day 11

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Vosslings Adventure Part 2- Day 11

Day 11

Tuesday, June, 28, 2016 "Sigh of relief"

We left Maine around 7am in the pouring rain. Next stop... Atlantic City, New Jersey. This day was made of bloopers. When we left Maine it was smooth sailing, but as we got closer to NJ we realized maybe GPS has us a little mixed up. She had us going round and circles. Finally when back on course, Josh and I were looking around on the 3 lane highway and noticed there wasn't a single over sized vehicle around us, not a truck, bus or towed vehicle. We looked at each other and said "oh, this can't be good". Josh's first question was "how high are the underpasses?!" I started googling things and remapping our location. As we approached bridges, we cringed. What a sigh of relief when we made it through. This was the only road that would get us to our resort. What a confusing, intense, mess. Words to live by, GPS doesn't know what you're driving. We managed to stay on course and made it to our exit... safely. The Atlantic City RV Resort was back in the deep words. When we pulled into the drive, we couldn't help but wonder if this was going to work for us. The lane was made of packed sand. This beast may have a problem. We unhooked the car and entered as 2. The Resort had sandy lanes and camping spots. Our spot was in the back which took 4 of us to spot him backing-in. Props to my guy for his ability to handle this RV. He makes it look so easy.

Early the next morning we had plans to leave the RV sit for a few days while we stay in New York. I didn't think to pack any suitcases since we were living out of a real closet, so Josh and I let the kids check things out and cook some dinner while we took the car and run into town on a hunt for suitcases. When we were done, we got turned around so we decided to GPS our route back to the RV. It took us a completely different way than where we came from. We came to a fork in the road... left to private drive/ right to main road.... So we stopped, looked at each other and just laughed. The main road was a muddy, narrow, over grown mess. He looks at me and says "at least we have 4 wheel drive!" This can't be right! GPS says our destination is 0.5 miles ahead. HERE WE GO!.... We came up to the BACK OF OUR RV. Literally right outside our door. I was laughing so hard I was crying. How did that even happen. It should have taken us to the front gate. Imagine the kids surprise when we pull up. HA!

We were placed in a spot with no sewer so we needed to conserve our dirty water tank on the RV for 5 days, that is not easy to do with 6 of us. While I was washing dishes, picture me with 2 full sinks washing and rinsing, then filling a pot with dirty water to chuck outside in the dark. I might have just preferred using a bucket to wash dishes outside. We used the public bathhouse to shower during our stay. Spoiled Glamper gone amazon woman.

Our road back to the RV

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Hoover Dam

6/18/15
Day 11

We drove to Hoover Dam which was about 40 minutes from our fancy Vegas campsite. The dam was huge! I'm surprised my mom actually went out on it, because we were so high up that even I was scared! We stood on the state line between Nevada and Arizona to take a picture, and then we went to watch a video about the history of the dam. After the video Dad, Chandler, and I went down into the power plant inside the dam. My dad was fascinated by it (sort of an occupational thing for him) and I was sweating profusely which made it hard to enjoy anything. Once the tour was over we met up with the rest of the family in the gift shop. I was disappointed to hear they had gotten ice cream with out us. We headed back to camp to make dinner, chicken kabobs our favorite. To finish the night, we went night swimming. We were all having fun and wrestling until Chandler destroyed his toe on the bottom of the hot tub, it was GROSS.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Day 11 Hoover Dam

Day 11 Hoover Dam

Voss Tour of Hoover Dam Nevada/Arizona
June 18, 2015

Josh has always talked about touring the Hoover Dam so this was our deciding factor on staying in the Las Vegas area to site see both places this trip. We planned on heading out to Boulder City early to beat the record high heat, but things don't always stay on schedule....

On our way out the door, we all had one last potty break before heading out and guess what happened... Mom broke the cable on the toilet lever when she stepped on it. So instead of going directly to Hoover Dam, we had to go to Camping World for toilet parts because they close early. On the way to Camping World Josh had a hard time reading Las Vegas signs and he missed our exit 3 times. That was NOT fun. Eventually we arrived at Camping World and here comes Josh walking out with a new toilet. Parts would take a week to order so we didn't have much of a choice. Then we realized it wouldn't fit in the trunk with all of us in the car so the toilet played back seat passenger for the remainder of the day. WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS......

On to Hoover Dam. The drive was beautiful. As we approached Lake Mead, I grabbed the camera. The water was a stunning blue. The bridge over Hoover Dam was beautifully constructed. As we pulled up to the entrance there was security check points. After a brief questioning and look through, we made our way down to parking. It was extremely hot outside by noon but we pushed through the walking self tour of both sides of the Hoover Dam. Later we headed downstairs to the museum and movie portion of the tour. After the Movie about the Hoover Dam, Josh, Carmen and Chandler went on a lower level tour of the operational parts of the Dam down 72 stories. Meanwhile, Colin, Charlie and I went on a visitors tour of the making of Hoover Dam through the Museum. It was pretty neat for the boys to understand how water creates electricity and how the electricity gets into our homes. They also have a better understanding of how the dam helps the water get into certain parts of the surrounding states and how quality of life is better now with water source as apposed to the years before the Dam construction. Josh and the big kids seemed to enjoy the tour of operations. It was interesting to learn some of the facts about the construction period and the events surrounding it. Only 96 men perished during the construction. The entire town of Boulder City had to be built in order to house the workers for extended period of the construction. They were like family, always together rotating work around the clock.

After a long hot day, we settled down at the RV for some yummy kabobs and swim time. I was pretty excited to take full advantage of that beautiful Grill!