Catching Up

We've been busy, but that's no excuse for no blog.  Will try to be better about it.  The problem is, we play games every night until 9 or 9:30, and then we're both too tired or lazy to get the darn thing written.  I think a daytime post is going to be the new norm.  Now I must remember what we've done for a week.

The day we pulled into the park we were hit up by a 14-year old girl who we just adore, Elena, to buy tickets to her fundraiser dance/BBQ.  She lives in the park and is a freshman in highschool this year.  Her High School Ballet Forklorico Fundraiser was last Sunday at Mario's Ballroom.  It was quite a stretch to call this place a ballroom.  It was in the worst park of town, with bars on all the windows.  Once inside we couldn't  get out fast enough.  We sat with others from the RV park.  The conversation among all of us quickly came to, "Doesn't this place remind you of all the news stories - dance hall burns while hundreds die trying to get out."  It brought back memories of the old American Legion Hall back home that we used to go to with my parents, only this was a thousand times worse.  Mark had the misfortune of checking out the men's room - said the trough was disgusting! 

We quickly ate our BBQ plate and waited for the dancers.  Elena was in the first group of dancers, and she did very well. 

The costumes were beautiful.  We cut and run after the solo dancer who was next.  The fear of fire, trampling, etc. was too much; besides it was a gorgeous day and too nice to be indoors.

We came across this RV park on the way back to our very nice RV park.  You could save money on meals since you can catch a catfish right in this park.

Monday was supposed to be a guys golf outing, but they were short one, so I went.  I am happy to report I was 9 shots better than last week's round.  Mark also did better. 

While Mark golfed with the guys on Wednesday, I spent my day doing paperwork and cleaning.  I also realized a had a coupon from Snapfish for 100 free prints, so I quickly (it took two hours) went through the 650+ pictures from Dennis and Ann's wedding and chose which ones I wanted.  They brought back great memories of a wonderful day. 

I'm still walking 2-3 miles a day in the park and biking some more.  There are lots of people coming in and out of the park this month.  One guy left Thursday to go back home to Chicago and got caught in the ice and snow.  Another guy left yesterday for North Dakota.  We're sure he never even made it north of Dallas because of all the bad weather. 

We've been playing canasta almost every night. 

Last night's game.  The guys soundly beat us!

The weather turned cooler on us today.  After rain last night, we started out at 68, but it's supposed to be down in the 30s tonight.  Of course, the weather people are not very reliable.  We never did get the terrible thunderstorms at 4:00am today.  The sun is now out and shining brightly - we're off to the pool.