What's in a day?

I was sitting here tonight thinking about what people might think while they were reading our blog. How they might imagine our day unfolding. What we've written so far isn't exactly reality. We give you a picture and a brief description of a highlight or two. So I decided that it might be nice for you to see what a day for us is like, from start to finish. Today is somewhat unusual because we moved the RV from Capitol Reef to Escalante. But today encompassed all the of the 'usual' things we do in a day while living on the road. So here goes:

5:20 am - Wake up to the sound of heavy rain and wind. Decided that we shouldn't move the RV today because the weather is way too bad. Had breakfast (english muffins) and coffee; read the news, start working.

7:00 am - While working we realized that the rain had stopped for a while. We talked it over and looked at the weather on the internet. Seems like we had a brief window of good weather so we decided to close up camp and make a run for Escalante which is only 65 miles away. So I dumped the sewage and locked all the storage bins, these are all standard moving chores. I do these while Danielle makes sure everything (potential flying projectiles) is put away inside.

7:20 am - Depart for Escalante.

7:40 am - Starting to rethink our decision. Didn't realize that we'd be going up to 9600 ft elevation which means.. snow. Everything got a lot better once we got over the mountain. We saw deer, deer, deer and a marmot. Danielle actually started yelling into her walkie talkie 'Oh my god I saw a marmot, I've never seen a marmot!!!!'

9:00 am - Pulled into the Broken Bow RV park. Got our spot picked out. Started working.

10:15 am - Had our weekly Monday morning department meeting over Skype with Billy and Jess. We had a lot to talk about but somehow we always finish before lunch.

12:00 pm - Lunch! Split pea soup with crackers (meh.. could have been better).

5:30 pm - Hiked to a waterfall. It was a pretty easy hike and the waterfall was running. We saw a momma duck and some babies swimming around. Then.. the weather rolled in. I've got to say, Danielle and I have been very lucky with rain. We get back to the car and 5 min later.. rain drops.

8:00 pm - Got back to the RV and I made some dinner (stuffed chicken with goat cheese, broccoli and left over cous cous).

9:40 pm - Write blog!