!!WARNING!!  If the title of this post wasn't warning enough, you are about to be bombarded with a lot of dog pictures . . . 

Power truly is power.  I say this in light of the troubles we have been having with our solar power system.  The last three weeks have been frustrating, to say the least, with various issues in our electrical system popping up and changes in travel plans to accommodate repairs to be done.  But, we seem to finally have all of that sorted out.  Lights no longer flicker, the hydraulic motor is happy and we can now plug into shore power without causing a fault in the entire system.  We now have a fully functioning residential solar power system adapted to our RV.  This does give one an amazing sense of freedom.  I just really hope it continues to function as it has these past three weeks when it was only operating on 1/2 the batteries and 1/2 the solar panels.  Our electrician seems to have washed his hands of it all and advised us that his part is done and if we have anymore trouble it will not be because of his install but because of the various system parts themselves and we would be better served by tech support at this point going forward.  I hope he's right....

These recent past few days have been for the dogs, literally.  After leaving Edmonton we spent a few days in Calgary to have the repairs we needed to be done.  We were cramped into a site that the trailer barely fit into and Toothless had to be parked up by the main office.  Despite the site barely being big enough for our rig, it was a double site and they continued to put other rigs beside us even though there were other, not so cramped sites available.  It wasn't bad when it was simply a motorhome with no slides, but when they put a big Class A beside us it was a little disturbing.  The dogs had only a very small patch of grass and most of that was occupied by a picnic table.  There was construction going on all around us and the sound of large trucks and equipment was constant.  

Our view of the top of their slide from our bedroom window . . . only inches between them!

It wasn't all bad, though.  It did allow us to do our laundry, take "normal" showers, do a little shopping for groceries and some more things to organize the living space a little more and I was able to get another visit in with my mom before hitting the road again.  And, we have power . . . . 

We left for our next site last Monday and were very excited.  This site claimed to be heaven on earth for dogs, and it did not disappoint.  The only issue we had when we arrived was that the directions were wrong with regards to where the actual site was.  They said to watch for the gate on the right hand side of the driveway.  Apparently they are as right-and-left-hand challenged as I am as we missed the gate which was actually on the left.  We ended up pulling right into their parking area, which was a little too small for a big rig such as us.  When we got it all sorted out where we were to go I had to back out of the driveway, back across the cattle guard and get ourselves back out onto the main road to give it another shot at entering the site we were supposed to be in.  We managed to maneuver ourselves around without breaking anything or anyone (and only minimal breaches of my expletive filter) and found ourselves settled in the best place we could imagine!  We are now in a very large (about an acre), fenced in site with green grass and trees!  The dogs can run their little legs off and we can relax.  The birds are singing, the sun is shining and all is right in the world again.  The only downfall . . . we have to move on in a few days.