Playing catch up

Man!  How easy it is to get behind when your having fun and being lazy.  I will try to fill in the gaps as best my memory will let me.

9-14-09

Tonight was a night for playing games and as you can see most everyone was busy at it.

 

The boy is our grandson/great nephew Justin.  He is playing Skip Bo with the “Old People”.  He had never played the game before but with a little help from Margie (left side of picture below) he managed to win 3 out of 4 games.  Twila finally won one and said she was quitting while she was a winner.

9-15-09

This morning we all loaded up our RV’s and left for our homes or in our case, we left for Texas. But we didn’t quite get there, but that was planned, it just wasn’t my plan.  We dry camped overnight at the Winstar Casino in Oklahoma at the Texas border.  The camping was free except for what Twila gave the Casino, but I’m not suppose to talk about that.

They have done a lot of face lifting at the Casino since we were there last.  They are now calling it a “World Class Casino” and have put different fronts on the different sections of the casino.

This is probably a famous pagoda but I don’t know what it is called or where it is located.

We actually saw this tower in Florence, Italy when we took our trip to Italy in 2006.

Here’s a picture Gary House took of the tower when we were there.

The building below on the right is in Venice, Italy and I think it is the palace of the Dodgy.

Actual building taken in 2006-

Of course the building on the left (second picture up) is the Coliseum in Rome and yes we just happen to have an actual picture of it also.

 

Needless to say this was the best part of the casino for me.

9-16-09

Today we drove to Weatherford, Texas to stay with Dale and Lue Prior for a couple of nights.  We just parked the motor home in their driveway and stayed in their spare bedroom.  Guess I was too busy having fun cause I didn’t get any pictures but we sure had a good time.  We went to a Mexican Restaurant and I can’t remember the name but it was gooooood!!!! 

9-17-09

Today Dale, Twila and I met Dale’s long-time friend Max for breakfast.  We visited quite a while and heard lots of stories about Dale and Max’s younger days and some not so younger days.  They really have a good time and we enjoyed meeting him and hearing their stories.  In the afternoon, Lue and Twila went to Sam Moons and Dale and I went to Cabello’s.  Sam Moons was a new experience for Twila and she will be looking forward to finding another one in the future.  Cabello’s is like Bass Pro, only bigger.  There were lots of stuffed animals, not just the usual deer, elk, and moose but also African animals.  Then they took us to downtown Fort Worth which we had never seen or even heard about.  It is the area of town where the cattle were brought to the packing houses for processing.  Several of the packing houses have been turned into shops and there are several restaurants.  We ended up at Boo Rays which is a seafood restaurant.  Really Great.  They are talking about coming down to Aransas Pass this winter, January or February, we will be looking forward to their visit.

9-18-09

We left Weatherford this morning heading for Aransas Pass but with the intention of stopping somewhere along the way to stay overnight.  We ended up stopping at a roadside park for lunch about 3pm.  We started thinking about getting an RV park about 4:30pm but Twila said we might just drive in and stay at Wal-Mart overnight so we did.  We got to the Wal-Mart at Aransas Pass about 6 to 6:30pm.

9-19-09

We got up this morning, went into Wal-Mart to the Mc Donald’s for breakfast, then to the Murphy’s Station to fill up with Diesel, then pulled into Portobelo Village RV about 9:30am.  When we left last year I told Larry, the park manager, that I would pay an extra $200 if I had a slab on my site.  We had already heard from Gary and Mattie House that the slab had been installed.

As you can see by the date on the picture I didn’t take this picture until the 22nd but it does show the slab.  We were sure glad we had the slab by this time since we had a 10 to 11 inch rain and ended up with our usual lake where we normally park the car.

9-26-09

We went to our annual Thanksgiving Dinner today at noon.  The park furnished the turkey and rolls and everyone brought a dish or two.  Twila made a cranberry orange salad with pecans in it and cheese grits.