Casa Grande RV Resort

I told you in the last post that I would show you the pools at our RV Park, and we will. But first we're going to tell you that this morning we were BAD! We went to the Golden Corral and had their breakfast buffet. We are not fans of buffet's but the Golden Corral is actually much better then Hometown Buffet or the Las Vegas buffet's.

We had way too much of everything. From grilled to order steak, to ham steak, to fresh made to order omelette's to pancakes, to bacon, to cinnamon rolls we didn't control ourselves!  It even included juice and milk for $5.99 per person!

We did a little shopping and got back to the park and decided we should walk around the park for awhile!!!

Here are some pictures of the park we took. This is the entrance to the park.

Park Entry

You can see some RV's near the palm trees. Those are near the road and I'm not sure why people are parked there. There are plenty of unoccupied sites inside the park where you are more secure and it would be removed from the road.

These are the check-in offices as well as the library and pool table room. There is also a shower room here.

Office buildings

You can take or leave a book in the Library. It is on the honor system. This is completely guest driven. Through the door in the back is the billiards room.

Library

Here is the billiards room. There are four pool tables in here.

Billiards Room

If you want to get away from it, there is a pond on the property with benches you can sit on. There is also a walking path around the pond.

Pond

There are two swimming pools here, but one is designated for playing volleyball. The water temperature is in the mid 80's. 

This is the swimming pool.

Swimming pool

This is the volleyball pool.

Volleyball Pool

The Jacuzzi has two sets of jets, one for each side of the pool. When we first got here it was not hot enough, but we asked them to turn it up and they did! As you can see it's between the two pools.

Jacuzzi

The BBQ area is next to the pools. They have hamburger lunches for $3.50 several times a week and I think they do it here.

BBQ area

They have lots of activities here, but so far we have not done any. They have an Ice Cream social at 2:00 today and we may go to that.

Well that's it for today,

Love you all!!!

Brian and Patty

Casa Grande, AZ

We made it to Casa Grande on Monday. We are staying at the Casa Grande RV Resort which is an RPI. They just spent over a million dollars renovating the park and it really shows! Because Casa Grande is in the desert there is no grass here, but there are some trees. There is a cement pad with gravel to keep the dust down. We were lucky enough to get an end site.

Site 77

They have 2 swimming pools and a Jacuzzi, and a pond in the back. I'll try to take pictures before we leave next Monday. Although it has been chilly here they do keep the pools warm and we have used them already. 

Here is a picture of our truck this morning at about 8:00. It got into the low 30's last night. With our fireplace going we kept toasty!

Frost on the truck

We decided today to go to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Casa Grande was named after the ruins, however the ruins are actually in Coolidge which was named after the Coolidge dam.

Coolidge

Coolidge has a population of about 12, 000 people yet it has a SuperWalmart, a Sonic Burger, a Safeway and other stores. The ruins can be seen from the Walmart parking lot.

They consider this a Prehistoric Ruins, because although the buildings were built about the year 400, and in Europe tools were being used from copper and brass, the Hohokam Indian tribe built this using sticks and by hand. They also had no written language so the engineering is amazing.

Saguaro Cactus

The current covering you see was built in 1932 to protect the ruins from further erosion. As you can see there is also a lot of Saguaro Cactus around here.

Every hour they provide a guided tour to give you information about the area. Also in the visitor center they had a movie with the history of the 'Great House', as well as the Hohokam Indians. The Hohokam's no longer exist, but they believe the O'odham may be decedents of the Hohokam.

Almost as old as the Ruins!

Patty was perusing this 'condo' property, but I convinced her that the 5th wheel was a better fit for us!

Patty's Condo

The walls are build out of Caliche which is a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate. It is really a precursor to modern day cement and is why the 4 story "Great House" has stood for 1800 years! 

I just like the way this picture came out with the prisms of the lens showing through in the picture!

Sun spots

Patty took this picture of the purple cactus. Don't know what kind it is, but is was pretty.

Purple cactus

We ended up spending about three hours at the monument. We took a picnic lunch, ate sandwiches and then went back and looked some more and took more pictures. After that we headed back home to Casa Grande.

It was a wonderful day.

Thanks for reading and please leave any comments you may have!!

God Bless you,

Brian and Patty