Tomorrow, January 25, is Bob’s 70th birthday…yipee! We decided to celebrate his birthday today along with Martha who is celebrating her 79th…wow. We had a cake and ice cream for each of them at the clubhouse where we were joined by quite a few of the folks that are wintering here also.
Here is the birthday girl and boy. Bob’s cake was really not crooked…just looks like it.
A good time was had by all.
Moving on.
First of all, Happy New Year to each of you. I have been so lax in posting that It will take several postings to catch up. I may actually work backwards…I seem to function better that way.
We had a wonderful Christmas even though Bob and I were apart for the first time in 22 years. Bob flew to Atlanta to spend some time with his son, daughter-in-law and grandson Owen. Grandpa had so much fun playing with Owen…he has been trying to get Cissy and Buddy to build caves with him but it doesn’t seem to be the same.
I spent the holidays in Georgetown, Texas with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew and our cousin. Karen lives in Vail, Colorado and it had been around 20 years since I had last seen her. Susan, my sister, prepared so much wonderful food for all of us. We enjoyed shrimp gumbo and king crab legs on Christmas eve…my nephew, John, even got all of the meat out of the shells for us…what service! My sister, Susan, cousin Karen, brother-in-law Tom and nephew, John.
On Christmas day we had a beautiful meal of turkey, ham and all the fixings which included a traditional Texas dish of tamales. The tamales were made by Mrs. Gonzales in Karnes City, Tx. They were really good. Everything was wonderful!
Bob returned on Dec. 28th. We left Georgetown on the morning of Dec.30 headed to Texarkana, Tx. with Sue and Tom following in their car. We stayed at a beautiful park in Texarkana called Shady Pines RV park…they have an RV dealership located next to the RV park. This was one of the nicest parks we have ever stayed in…forgot to take any pictures.
We went into Texarkana, had dinner at Red Lobster and stopped at Best Buy to return my Nook (an ereader put out by Barnes and Noble). Had problems with it and thought the trouble had been resolved in Georgetown but not so. They did not have another one in Texarkana so just had to get my money back.
Left Texarkana headed for Little Rock, AR. We had planned on getting there early enough to see the Clinton Presidential Library but began hearing about the horrible storms in Arkansas so we stopped at a rest area for a couple of hours watching the Weather Channel to see how long it would take for the Little Rock area to be clear. We arrived in LR about 3:30 which did not give us enough time to do the library…and it was to be closed on New Year’s Day.
We stayed at Downtown Riverside RV Park in North Little Rock. The park was not the best but we certainly had a great view out our front window facing the Arkansas River.
Left North Little Rock this morning, New Year’s Day, headed for Tunica, Mississippi where we will stay for a few days then on to Red Bay, AL for our yearly service appointment at the Tiffin motorhome service center.
Moving on.
