ARRIVAL DAY

We left Mesquite at 9 am and headed to Las Vegas.....The weather was beautiful and as we travelled south the temperatures kept rising. The drive through Vegas on the 4-6 lanes of wild drivers was a bit hair raising but we stayed in the middle lane, kept the 75 MPH speed and gritted our teeth.  The good old GPS was so good to tell us when to stay in what lane and where we would be merging etc.  Last time we came home through the same way, the GPS took us on a residential bypass which was much less stressful but not as fast.... We drove 8 hours again and arrived at Sunscape at 4 pm to 21 C degrees.  We registered at the Welcome centre and as our land lord works there he was able to get us to our place and showed us around.  The furniture is better but no storage at all. very small kitchen, and many things we thought would be here are not.  No waste baskets in any rooms, no door mats, no toaster, a less than efficient coffee maker, no plug for the tub, (not really a tub, more a sitz bath), walls very dusty and some things need a really good cleaning.  So today we get busy.

We we very tired after unloading the car and getting things put away for now....but finally at 7pm we headed to town and to Walmart to get some groceries and then had a hamburger at the McDonalds in Walmart as we were to tired to go to a restaurant.  We were heading out when Harvey remembered that we needed clothes hangers. (Not a single one in the house)  So he stayed with the cart and I went and got a few packages of them...Out to the car to find out it was pouring rain....So much fun with glaring lights, shiny reflective roads and lots of traffic. Harvey could not tell where the lanes were and nearly got sideswiped.... Our place is 5 miles straight out from town and once on the rural road it was a bit better but immediately sirens started and we were passed by a fire truck, 3 police cars, and an ambulance heading out our way. Oh dear I thought, .....I had just plugged in my Scentsy air freshener and left it warming....Maybe it started a fire and our house was gone....lol   But in about 3 miles the lights were flashing like Vegas and another ambulance and 2 more police cars passed us . Obviously a bad accident. ( I was so glad we had gone back for the hangers or maybe it would have been us.)  There was a bus ahead of us and 4 more cars and we all were stopped. We waited for about 15 mins and then a few vehicles started turning around and going back to town.....Now we were determined to stay there all night as Harvey was not about to try to turn around and try to find a detour to our place in the dark, in the pouring rain on some unlit rural roads of Arizona.  Well soon police descended on us and told us we would have to turn around as it may be a few hours till the road would open as there were many patients to transport. We told them we had no idea how to get to Sunscape any other way but he assured that the roads were good and we should be able to go back a mile and then 2 or 3 miles north and east and back down the 11 mile corner road.  We headed off and worked our way down the roads in the pouring rain, trying to see where to turn with old eyes on unlit roads. At this point I realized my phone was dead as well...... The speed limit on the (did I say dark and scary) roads was 35 mph so that was good, We also realized that others were following us by now so we kept going and finally made it home....
The house smelt good from the hot air freshener.....lol

We were now energized again so continued to unpack , make our bed etc and finally collapse into our big leather recliners for an hour.   But we were too tired for a glass of wine ......
To bed finally to listen to the pouring rain and up at 7:30 to still have it raining. 
I look out into the Desert Gardens behind us to think how happy all those cactus must be to finally get a drink again.
I hope today we hear what happened at that accident but don't have any idea what radio station to listen to or where I would find it on the net......