Mary-Louise Parker (above) and flowers from home (below)- Still getting the hang of photos uploaded from my iPhone to Blogger from Google Plus App - Maybe I'll get better at this? It remains to be seen!

Blog - Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Okay, so we bought an iPad so we wouldn't have to bring our old, slow laptop with us on vacation. Of course, we brought it anyway just in case and have been using it to create our blog entries. Today I'm testing out our capabilities for blogging using the iPad.

That said, we've hit a bit of a snag again today! I'm beginning to think this is the longest "shake-down" trip in our vacation history. The Dodge truck decided to light up with a warning message on the dash this morning while we were on our way to shop for groceries at Walmart. Frank drove on over to a former Checker store, so they could hook up their test equipment to our truck's computer. It seems we have a substantial  cooling system leak confirmed by the coolant puddling up under the truck when Frank peeked under there. Luckily the warning lite alerted us before the truck overheated, and we dropped it off at the Dodge dealer in downtown Sheridan. We're beginning to feel like we live here!

Frank rented a black classy-looking Toyota Camry LE, and I like its interior much better than my two-year old Camry at home. Sigh! Anyway, the dealer said they would work on the truck on Thursday, so we're hoping we can continue our trip on Friday morning as planned.  It may have been good Karma deciding to stay in Sheridan to see Greg Brown in concert on Thursday night. Out on the prairie pulling the trailer on the scenic route 14 over to Cody would not have been an optimal time to have this kind of problem. All in all, I think we lucked out this time!

Our laundry and shopping are all caught up and yesterday afternoon we went to the movies to see Red2. My daughter, Stacie raved about it on Facebook, but once again we think we've crossed some imaginary "old-age" line preventing us from enjoying today's spoofs. However, we did enjoy the first Red movie when it was playing. I still haven't seen The Lone Ranger, and it's playing in Sheridan, so if we get bored this afternoon with reading and relaxing . . .

By the way, we expected a "postage stamp-sized" movie screen at Sheridan's only theater and were blown away by a huge screened, stadium seat auditorium with Dolby surround sound. The outside of the theater is plain and unassuming, but inside (Frank says and I truly didn't notice this) its appearance looked like something very ornate out of the 1940s.

On location in Sheridan, Wyoming,
Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, and John Malkovich