The shitter is EMPTY, Clark!

Most people do not get excited about flushing their toilet - after potty training the excitement is pretty much over. Some crazy cleaning fanatics may get excited about a clean toilet - I am just not one of them. Dumping the Black Tank with someone else's pooh in it  - I feel like like a weight has been lifted. A bit gross, I know, but it is done and it was painless. 

Since the weather was not the best for working outside on the garage and we were exhausted from the 100th B-day Bash- we decideed to do some things around the housecar that needed to be done - like dump the tanks! There is really only one place in LI to do this and thanks to Marc we knew where - Bethpage. I had some errands to run near Hicksville (great name for an RV dumping place - but that is where the mall is!) and Andy said it was the same direction so off we went. Andy paid the man $5 and drove to the dump area. It was pretty clean and not too smelly - I have been to the City dump - smelly and not clean. Andy easily hooked up the houses - opened the valves and the waste started flowing. If hooked up properly - no sight or smell of what is coming out! I stayed inside and dumped water down the camode. I checked the gauges - Grey and Black Tanks empty. Andy cleaned and put everything down below away. I threw in a disinfected and some more water and we were done. Ahhhh it was good to dump!

We had some other firsts this past weekend! Sammy (one of our nieces) spent the night on Saturday night while we were in Nyack. Leah let us park outside her house so we were plugged in which was great! A few issues...
The air conditioner is not working yet - we need to replace the fan. Unfortunately, it was hot and humid all weekend. I put a fan right on Sam so she wouldn't get too hot on the bed up top. Instead, she got wet! It started to rain in the middle of the night and the roof vent above her was open. She and her blanket were wet. She put a sweatshirt on and suffered silently through the night. Lucky for me - Andy shut the one above us I would have been drenched as well. Sam did say she would stay again once the A/C worked and no rain in the forecast!

It was nice to the have our home up there with the family. Marc and Cheryl gave us some good insights and ideas on organizing and such. We figured out a color scheme as we slowly redecorate. It was a good extension to the house with so many people up to celebrate Grandma's birthday. Oh and Leah has no microwave but we do - so re-heating dinner was done at our house :)

The bad part...it had been pouring rain all day on Sunday. Raining and windy - just gross really. We had maybe an hour where it was just misty when we walked around Nyack but that was the only real break. I changed clothes 3 times because I was wet, cold and/or sticky.

As we were pulling out of Leah's we had to drive up the hill and I was getting wet  - in the RV! "Andy, water is dripping on me! Pull over I am getting wet. Pull over I am getting soaked." Andy - "Is your window closed. I will - just wait a second. Oh, I felt a little water too. Oh crap!" Water is now GUSHING from the top bunk onto us. I grab our phones from the dashboard - away from the waterfall. We are both soaked, shocked and a bit scared. What just happened? Our home is leaking or flooding or something. We get all the towels and dirty clothes and start mopping up everything. Andy is convinced it from the windows up top being left open all day. I thought it was a leak from the crease in the very front. We go back and forth with what it could be or couldn't be and finally everything is pretty try. Andy takes off again - I am sitting on the couch now since my seat is soaked and I gave Andy the last dry towel to sit on. He starts back up the hill and another waterfall :( We grab the second set of sheets, take the cushions off the top and dry everything again. Andy is now in a 3rd set of clothes since we left Leah's!

No more water came out and we made it back to Glen Cove in the regular hour time - miracle. There was so much flooding on the LIE and when we got to Glen Cove we had to take some back roads because the main one was flooded. So much water!

We left the heat on all day in the RV to dry up the water inside and after some checking we are 98% sure it was from the windows being open. We did drive in some heavy rains from OR to NY and had NO problems so that makes sense. A very hard lesson learned - check everything 2 or 3 times. We were not ready for such rain but we will be next time!

I still need to write about Sushi, Pizza and Nyack. Busy week ahead!