Once a teacher…always a teacher.  After spending the first part of the day at our coach reading and working on computer-based tasks, like RVillage and our blog, we decided to go for a walk.  We had just dropped off a bag of trash and were about to start our stroll through the RV resort in earnest when Jeff came by in his car and stopped to ask us if we could help him with something.  Kathy’s grandson, Spencer, was staying with them during spring break and they had just bought him an Android-based tablet but were having difficulty setting it up.  Spencer is 9 years old and was eager to download some game apps.  We headed to their site, which isn’t far from ours, and arrived about the same time John and Ali did.  Kathy had called them for help too.

To use the Play Store on an Android device you have to have an account, and to have an account you have to have an e-mail address.  Google generally makes it easy to accomplish both but when we tried creating these for Spencer we could not do it.  We decide to restore the factory default settings on his tablet and were then able to set up his Play Store account, including a Gmail e-mail address.  I had him send e-mails to his grandma (Kathy) and his mom.  He got replies from both and sent replies back, so that verified it was working.  We also set up a PIN to unlock his tablet.

I helped him navigate the tablet to learn how it works and then we opened the Play Store and started searching for FREE games he might like.  He downloaded several games but seemed intent on getting Minecraft (sp?).  We found a lot of Minecraft-related apps in the FREE section, but not the game itself.  I am not familiar with game but it appeared that the base app was not free.

We went back to Jeff and Kathy’s rig later for happy hour and a potluck meal.  We brought some fresh fruit so we would have something to eat too.  Later we went to John and Ali’s and sat around a small campfire late into the evening.  Jim joined us for a while.