Trip to North Pole

July 28 – Our drive today was not very long to Fairbanks.  Our campground is on the outskirts of the city and we did get full hook ups and pull thrus.  Super as we are having some laundry back up!  We were on our own for the rest of the day so almost everyone decided to visit the town of North Pole and visit the Santa House there.

It’s not that far to the North Pole from Fairbanks!  There is a huge Santa to welcome you to his home and there is a huge building with all kinds of Christmas stuff and items with “North Pole” on them and Santa and Mrs. Santa have a special area where they greet everyone and you can get your photo with them.  We didn’t buy much at all.

We walked out to the BIG Santa and then to the housing of the Reindeer.  They have huge antlers and you can pay to go in the area with them and feed them.  We passed on that but it was great to see them.  Bill and I have been here about 20 years ago but we think the building is bigger now that it was before.

When we were on our way back we got a call from the Wagon Master that there was a beeping  coming from our RV so we headed right back.  We left a couple of the windows cracked and the big window by the driver seat unlocked so our neighbor Barb climbed up and opened the window.  When we got there Melissa fanned the alarm and we opened all the windows.  It was coming from the propane.  Dave came over and found a leak in one of my burners and apparently while cooking I bumped one of the knobs and it was spewing gas as well.  Luckily our neighbors were there to call so nothing happened to Molly. 

This whole process also meant we have to ration our propane until we can get the tank repaired.  The first guy to fill it for us screwed it up and now no one can get propane in it.  We will probably only turn it on to heat water to shower and do the dishes.  I’m going to try and cook with my George Foreman and our grill that we will buy disposable canisters for.  We have a small tank for it at home and assumed this RV had the same attachment as the old one that we could hook our RV up to the big tank.  Not!

So once the excitement was over we microwaved leftovers.  I think I can manage cooking with the microwave, my electric toaster oven and the grill!  It’s always something.

The real down side was the 3 of us had took COLD showers!  Brrr!