Sudden appear of busy tent village
TT Morgan Hill is a one of the most family-oriented park in the system I have ever seen so far. Always see more kids running around and BBQ going inside the park. But, this last weekend was something. Because this years July 4th is on weekday, last weekend was the family day-out weekend to celebrate Independence Day.
We parked our RV at the end of row where our front door faces huge lawn and we can have nice view of field. Of course, it's far enough to be bit quieter from kids squeaking voices. (I love kids. Just imagine hundreds of kids on vacation and screaming, laughing, crying, etc around you all day). See? Needed a little bit quieter.
It's kinda convenient to us that the next site to us has broken water faucet. People rather park at different site with good condition water/power setup. So we didn't have neighbor for a while.
Saturday morning, I noticed 2 Indian guys were setting up a big tent in the site next to us. Then, they took off. About 20 minutes later, 6 Indians came back and disappear again. Next Keath saw 6 men and 2 women there. After that, we realized more Indians – kids and women – are walking towards us. What is going on there? It's way too many people that 1 camp site can allow to have.
While we were wondering how many people will be, some of them started building their tents. By the time they finished, back of our RV became sudden busy tent village just like the one in Yosemite. Not only tents, but they nicely requested Keath the permission to use the side of our site so that they can spread blanket and sit down under tree. Well, it shouldn't be a problem. Just to make sure kids won't knock over our brand new Data Satellite system (finally, it worked!) with soccer ball.
Keath had to go to Santa Cruz that night to see his long time friend Chris and have dinner with him. I didn't feel comfortable surrounded by big group that looks like majority of people (over 20 people?) will stay overnight around our RV. Now they took over almost 1/3 of our front yard. They were loud, their dog barked at me and Kodiak. When Keath got home late, he was surprised to see 5 cars parked along the front lawn.
That night, their teenager boys were chatting all night and kept Keath up.
Early morning, Keath went outside and talked to the head of family. As usual, Keath became friend of the group and invited to join their breakfast. We thought it's just courtesy invitation. But they meant it. A woman with plateful of egg covered fried toast shown up at our door with big smile. So we joined them. They were really nice, friendly people. They are families, relatives and coworkers.
While talking, we found out among large group of Indians, 1 guy was actually from Sri Lanka. Keath loves Sri Lankan food so they start talking a lot. So much for the quiet weekend. But what an interesting weekend it was.
This young Sri Lankan guy named Sam is also RV full-timer like us. After that weekend we got together with Sam and had lunch. Keath and Sam are computer people and speak a completely strange language