May Be Too Old for This

A couple weeks ago we were sitting around and everything was peaceful. I guess we can't stand peaceful, so we decided to turn our life upside down. We traded my 2010 Mitsubishi and Deedie's 2001 Dodge Ram pick-up in for a 2007 Chevrolet Avalanche with so much "stuff" on it that we take the manual with us everywhere we go and read it at every spare moment.At the moment we are working on getting the climate control system set to automatically come on one way on the driver's side and another on the passenger side. Good luck on that one. The next project is to get the seats and mirrors to change when we push a #1 or #2 button. Deedie being #1 and me being #2. It's kind of easier to just set them when you get in since they are both electronically controlled and you have to push a button anyway. At first I thought it might help our minds, but I think it is turning them to mush. Information overload.
If that wasn't enough, last week we bought a new RV travel trailer to pull behind the Avalanche. This week the RV is still at the dealership getting everything put together and then we will go up and spend 3-4 hours learning how to operate the thing. It will also have an owner's manual as thick as the Dallas phone directory. I think this all started when we were talking about going to Pennsylvania for Christmas and not having a place or anyone to look after our little dog, Opie. We were thinking that the lady who normally stays with him when we travel might not want to stay with him during Christmas. Not that we have asked her, we just assumed. So now on December 17 or 18, we will head to PA in our truck pulling the RV and taking Mitzi ad Opie with us.It will probably be 10 degrees and snow everywhere and we'll get stuck.  I think for the extra $20,000 we have spent, we might have found SOMEONE to stay with Opie. Oh well, he's 10 years old and having some leg and knee problems. He just better not die before we get to use this contraption.
We are still trying to think of a name for the RV. It has Zinger written on the side of it - we may put a STUPID sign over that. Or it could be the most fun thing we've ever done. Having never stayed at an RV park or done any camping at all I have no idea what to expect.
More later.....................gotta go read some more in the manual!