RED BAY, AL (Day 5) Monday.  Things have been slow.  Have met several interesting people who are likewise waiting to have work done on their motorhomes. 

There is a nice customer lounge with Direct TV reception that is good, a very popular place.  We watched a couple NFL games yesterday late afternoon and night (Sunday Night Football).  Getting access to the lounge is more difficult now that we must park in a different RV park and the fact that a tall fence now surrounds the work bay area that includes the lounge.  It seems that last July a disgruntled customer got herself quite drunk and drove her large motorhome full speed into one of the closed service bay doors, mashing it into a brand new motorhome inside the bay that was being prepped for delivery the next day.  Totalled the new motorhome.  The insurance company insisted that a stockade fence be built around the area.  So now we must drive to a new entry gate, and hope it is still open, in order to enter the area where the lounge is located.  No one is happy about this.  When we were here last March we were able to park in the service center RV lot, which afforded a short walk from our motorhome to the lounge with no fence in the way.

On Saturday the 19th we drove to Tupelo, MS to shop for groceries at a full-sized grocery store. We found a pretty nice Kroger there.  It was a fairly long drive, but necessary to find a full array of items.  The local Big Star in Red Bay is rather limited.

Today it is raining pretty hard.  Glad we are not likely to be called to bring our motorhome into one of the service bays.  Tomorrow will likely be the earliest, and we really hope to get started then.  We watch others in this RV park exit and return from service, all of them wearing rain garb and dripping wet.  Nice to avoid that.  Betty is humorously wearing the tee shirt that she got at the Ark Encounter.  The weather tomorrow and the remainder of the week is forecast to be dry.