There were four in the bed and the little one was attached to Tal-y’s eyelid. Yep, Tal-y had a tick right above her eye, it was gross and fat and I found it this morning so it must have spent the night in bed with us. I was cleaning her eye and saw something move and it was just sitting there like an inflated balloon eith legs. Mike plucked it off and we now have it in a baggy.
All this excitement happened just as we were getting ready to leave the campsite as we moved from Gloucester today. We got packed up and the hitching was amazingly easy with our new crank. We didn’t both have to push and pull to wind it and when we did wind it the trailer actually moved as intended. It was so easy after the last few times we’ve moved, definitely a good buy. After removing the hitchhiker we headed south to Gasburg which is about a three hour drive from Gloucester and right on the North Carolina border. The drive down was fine but not as pretty as previous journeys in Virginia as most of the trees had lost their leaves and there were lots of areas of marsh and scrub.
When we got to the campsite Mike checked us in and the lady as the office gave us a site number. When we drove to it it was already occupied so Mike had to hitch a ride back to the office on the back of any campers golf cart. We got a site eventually and got situated fairly quickly. We are in a nice wooded spot with easy access to everything, the clubhouse, lake and beach, and there only seems to be three trailers here on this side of the grounds. Mike has the same complaint as the last place, no cell phone service, 3 Ion TV channels, and weak internet; at least we are only staying a week, and the lodge has a TV and good internet where we can use Magic Jack. The maintenance worker came by to turn on our water and to instruct us how to turn it off when the temperature gets to freezing, he asked for the man of the house when I went out, does he think that I’m not capable of turning the frigging water off? We do have some very friendly neighbours here, they came to greet us as we were getting set up; Tal-y didn’t know which one to say hello to first.
This place has a huge fun center with indoor miniature golf, 10-lane bowling alley, indoor pool and weight room among other things that we get to use. We went up and checked it out this afternoon and it’s very nice, and they sell pizza!

Mike: Tal-y's new friends are cats! The park is loaded with them.