Shakedown cruise in the Sunstar

We did our first over-nighter in the Sunstar last night.  Everyone was eager to try out the new RV so since we were pressed for time we decided to go to Hillsborough River State Park just for Saturday night.  Bruce, Jason and Buster picked up me and Erik from Erik's soccer game and we headed straight to the park.  Gabby (our Garmin Nuvio 650 GPS) ended up taking us down a very small country road but a friendly State trooper helped us get back on track.  We got to the park about an hour before sunset.  Boy, was it crowded!

We set up camp quickly because we had Bruce's friend Kevin, his wife Gina and his daughter Megan coming over for chili and campfire pie pizzas.  Megan brought a friend and that worked out well since Jason and Erik brought their Wii.  Apparently all four of them were busy playing tennis, golf and bowling since every one had their own Wii remote.  My chili was excellent as always (or so everyone thought :-))

To the left is a picture of Gina, Bruce and Kevin in the U shaped dinette.  We are impressed with how big and comfortable that dinette is and we expect to have lots of good meals and conversations there!

Erik was really tired and crawled into his bunk at 9 o'clock.  Jason stayed up playing Wii by himself while Bruce and Buster went for a walk around the campground with me.

It seems that everyone had a good nights sleep and Bruce enjoyed the ability to shut off the sleeping area from the lounge.  This let him make his coffee and read a book at 0600 while everyone else was sleeping.

We took Buster for a run around the park and we ended up going over the Hillsborough River and running the "Florida Trail".  We wanted to run 30' but it turned into a 50' run.  Oh well, good shake out run for Disney next week.

When we got back Jason was ready to try out his culinary skills and cook us some pancakes.  They were great.  After breakfast we got the RV ready to go.  Since we were so close to Camping World we decided to swing by and pick up a couple of things.  As we were walking out we ran into Joanne and Tom Heppe.  Joanne is our Lazy Days sales agent and she is the one that found us our great Itasca.  Thanks Joanne!

The ride home was uneventful (we decided not to use Gabby) and we quickly cleaned up the RV and then took it over to storage.  It looks like we won't be RVing again for two weeks when we will take Mom and Dad to 1000 Trails Orlando for their first RV trip.