We slept well in spite of being in a RV park right beside the busiest road in Great Falls. A relaxing morning using the park’s fast wifi, drinking coffee and walking the Emmi girl before we headed off to find Home Depot along with another appliance store, Eklands.
If you have never driven in Great Falls, it is an experience! The streets are very confusing and strangely named. It is extremely easy to get turned around and we both have trouble knowing what direction we are heading in this town. We found both Home Depot and the other appliance store but ended up having to call the RV park for directions to Sam’s Club—nope, we have no GPS, there may be one in my future but Michael swears at the things!
Home Depot was the typical big box store—a woman helped us who talked as if she knew so much about appliances but knew very little. Off to Eklands and what a refreshing change of pace. A Great Falls business where the sales manager helped us. We learned a lot about dishwashers and ended up buying a brand we had never heard of—Blomberg! It is a European dishwasher and supposed to be very quiet. When I told the guy I wanted a quiet dishwasher he began showing us another unfamiliar brand, Meile, but when I saw the $1500 price tag I said, “maybe I don’t want that quiet!!” There are some great features of this dishwasher we purchased—a drip pan underneath the machine with a float which shuts off the water supply if a leak starts, a silverware basket that can be moved to any spot on the lower rack and hopefully quiet. The dishwasher is riding in the back of the jeep!
Lunch at a Mexican place, Michael enjoyed his selection and mine left a lot to be desired! While at the restaurant, a storm came through with rain and high winds. When we got back to the RV park all the power was out—no internet, no anything. There are several high end motorhomes right across from us and they all had their generators running—amazing our dependence on power! Emmi and I took a nap under a blanket—it was wonderful!
Tomorrow we are off, first to the Quilting Hen in Carter then home—we are both ready!
No photos today so I will leave you with one of Peyto Lake in Alberta.
After reading Rick’s post about comment moderation I am going to try turning off comment moderation for a while. The last time I did that I got comments in Chinese literally and a couple other foreign languages—that makes me mighty nervous! But like Rick says, you can use your delete button very easily.
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Thanks for turning off comment moderation. With all those great meals you make, you can sure use a new dishwasher! :)
ReplyDeleteHey Girl glad you have your new dishwasher. Travel safe the rest of the way home. It is very quiet around here and I really don't like it lol
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Brenda
Hey Girl glad you have your new dishwasher. Travel safe the rest of the way home. It is very quiet around here and I really don't like it lol
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Brenda
那麼不是所有的評論說，在外國語言是來自不好的地方。聽起來像是你有一個良好的洗碗機和回家幾乎是一樣的標題了令人振奮的。
ReplyDeleteYep, it's really me!!
I would normally not get to excited about a dishwasher, but now that I am one of the two available in the MH, I have a renewed interest in them:)
ReplyDeleteWhen we got our dishwasher for the stix and bricks my only requirement was for it to be quiet. And we got a good one. Hope yours is as good. Had quite the storm come through this evening. Probably your storm making its way east.
ReplyDeleteDang! JB beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful shot of Peyto Lake! Awesome even.
Congrats on your new dishwasher.
Yep, I am my own dishwasher all right. Nice Peyto Lake photo:))
ReplyDeleteEven when we were poor as church mice, having a dishwasher was just one of those things that was always a high priority. Once our old portable (and noisy) Maytag finally crapped out (we bought it second hand and it still then lasted 20 years), we installed a Miele. They are pricey that's for sure, but we quite like it. The kids used to refer to it as the "wonder machine", since they would always wonder just how it was possible to clean some of the mess they'd shove in there! Only thing was, some times it was just too quiet, and during a dinner party, some poor unsuspecting soul would open the thing only to get a hot facial. Have to check those dials first.
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