Slide topper!

One of the two things that we wanted to get accomplished here at National Indoor RV Center was to get a slide topper installed on the large passenger-side slide. Theoretically, if we had the awning, it could be used to cover that slide, but, the reality is that we don't really want to have the awning out all the time that the slide might be out, and the months without the awning have shown us that we need a slide topper to keep stuff (rain, leaves, debris) off the top of the slide.

On Tuesday, they took Gracie into the shop. 

Gracie heading out from the "campground" on her way to the shop

Our service advisor, Skip, kept us informed during the day... they were looking to assemble all of the parts needed for the slide topper and finally thought that they had found all of them.

At one point, in the afternoon, Skip took Carl back to where Chris was working on installation of the slide topper.

A picture of the service area -- better setup than what the Lewisville shop has... but they were finishing a new service building in Lewisville when we were last there, so it may be improving too.

Gracie outside in the campground with the slide out and the topper covering the slide.

The slide out and the topper deployed

The slide and slide topper retracted

Another view of the slide and topper retracted

We have the slide topper installed -- Hurrah!

 

 

We were anticipating that they would be coming to get Gracie early to start working on the awning... we had everything closed up and were waiting in the Jeep. Carl decided to wash the solar panels as a ruse to get them to come to get the rig (if we weren't ready for them, surely they would come!).

So, will we get an awning installed on Wednesday or not?