Today is laundry day! The hamper is full, we have tons and as it turns out, Rob needs it done so he has clothes to leave with. Yippee! I don't have to struggle with it myself.
As it turns out, there is a laundry here in the RV park. So, we gathered it all up and drove it over. There was only one working one open (we would need at least 3) and one that was scoshie. We decided to try the scoshie one and it worked. We went back to the rig and read for awhile and then the three of us walked back over to put stuff in the dryer and wash the third load. We returned to the rig again. I had picked up a booklet of the happenings on base for May and June. I was perusing it and deciding what to do while I would be here by myself. There was a lunch menu for all the clubs and they were having a Mexican buffet for lunch today at the Mountain View. They are also having a Mother's day Brunch there on Sunday. We walked back to the laundry and folded the dry clothes and then put the last load in the dryer. We walked back to the rig and put things away. Then we drove back to the laundry and folded the last load.
From there we drove over to the Mountain View Club and had lunch. It was so so, but I did sign up for the Brunch on Sunday.
We went back to the rig and put the last of the clothes away and changed into workout clothes.
Did I tell you it is still really cold and stormy here?
We decided to jog over to the gym, do a workout and jog back. Then Rob was going to go off and do a golf practice and I was going to chill with Bella.
It is only a little over a mile to the gym. We set off jogging and at the half mile point I am dying. My chest is killing me and it is the cold air that my asthmatic lungs are not liking in the least bit. I stop, catch my breath and take off again, only to have to stop again in another half mile. We get to the gym and check it out. There is a cardio room, 4 weight rooms, a couple basketball courts and another room that has some crazy equipment in it.
I find the wt. room with the machines I like and Rob goes off to one of the free weight rooms. I do 30 min of upper body doing 15 reps each on about 8 machines plus twice on an abdominal machine and 2 rounds each on what I call the gross female machines which work the inner and outer thighs. I went to find Rob and he still has about 10 more min. So I went out in the main floor. They have a Ninja Warrior obstacle course set up out there and they are getting ready to do some competitions. The pros have set it up and they ran through it setting the times. Then soldiers and dependents have signed up to run through it to see if a) they can complete it, and b) if they can do it in good time. As I learned later, this is the 2nd of 2 days, so the contestants may have already practiced a little bit, but I don't know that to be true.
Anyway, I sat in the bleachers that they had set up and watched. The pros (the main being a little female who is probably just barely 5 feet and maybe 100 lbs.) Explained the course and the rules and all. Then she ran through it and no disrespect, but she was like a little agile monkey and ran through the whole thing in 1 min. point 3 seconds. The next gal was a bit slower, but she still did it and the male pro, although faster, had a foul and so she, Kacy was still the time to beat.
Rob came and joined me as the pros were going through, and for one or two of the competitors, but then he had to leave for his golf. I stayed and watched the whole event. It was pretty cool. It really was all about upper body strength. There were rings, and bars and grids, and a couple large pvc logs. The logs were the killers. They were 4' long. There were two of them separated by three rings, all suspended by chains. You had to jump up and hug the log and some how bounce across it (hugging it) then grab onto the rings to get enough swing to grab the second log and scoot (hugging) across it, and then jump off and land beyond a line on the floor. That lap is what killed most.
OK. There were 5 laps. First were 4 sections of 3 pegs with balls on the end that you had to go from ball to ball to get across then it transitioned to 4 strips of metal sticking out from the wall at different levels. You had to hang on with your finger tips and make your way across to the end where both hands had to be together before you could drop off. then came the log, rings, log. Lap three was a ring or two then a bunch of hanging pegs and balls and rings. The fourth lap was a series of 8 trapezes that you had to swing across and jump off. The last was a triangle shaped ladder with a ring hanging at the apex. You had to hang with your feet not touching the floor from the bottom rung, then climb up the ladder (only using your arms and hands as your legs are dangling...The whole event was arms and hands only with your legs dangling) and then descend down the other ladder hanging on the bottom rung with both feet up until they say.. Good! It was fun to watch. Most people died on the log lap. They could not make the transition from the rings to the second log. You could have one foul (fall off, miss something, not make it over the line, etc) and still be able to continue from where you goofed, but the second one disqualified you.
There were probably 20 guys and only 4 gals who tried. It. I so wanted to try, but I have no upper body strength and knew I couldn't do it. Anyway, of the 4 gals (who were not the 2 pros) only one of them made it all the way through the course.
I stayed until the end and then jogged back to the rig. I payed on the computer for a little while cooling off from my run and then took a shower.
Oh, after lunch, and before the gym, Rob and I went to the BX where I did buy new tennies and we got a movie. The one called Numbers? about the women computers for the space program. Mom and I had started listening to the book while we were on our trip.
When Rob got home he showered and then we watched the movie. It was really good, probably the only time I could say the movie was better than the book.
After the movie Rob went to bed. I have been having trouble sleeping lately, so I stayed up and watched more TV until I was really tired and then I went to bed.
I have to tell you, I am very concerned about our country. I just do not understand what our President Trump is doing. I keep trying t0 be open minded, but he just keeps coming across like a psycho-puppy. His latest is firing Conley, the Director of the FBI His whitehouse people don't know what to make of it. Some are absolutely, it was right, others are saying it is just more fuel to head him toward impeachment. In the meantime, how can our country look to anyone else as less than a joke?! It is so disheartening.
Let's pray from our nation and our people.
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