Is there a doctor in the park??

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Sunday evening’s musical entertainment was The Ball Family Singers, who come from Abilene, Texas. During the summer and fall, they host chuck wagon suppers with Western entertainment on their Ball Ranch and in the winter they tour the Rio Grande Valley. We certainly enjoyed their renditions of old cowboy songs.

Monday morning after stretch class, Marg, Myrna and Jane headed off to a Tupperware party hosted by the park and given by a local distributor. Although Jane has never been a huge buyer of Tupperware, she finds it works well to keep cereal and crackers fresh in the RV - as long as it fits in the pantry. The party even included lunch so the girls were happy.

The San Benito Chamber of Commerce hosted a Welcome Back Winter Texans event here at Fun N Sun on Monday evening. Chamber members set up displays and donated many prizes (no we didn’t win anything). They also sponsored the evening’s entertainment – Walter Plant who performs Gospel and Country music using 4 keyboards. He is a great entertainer and we were glad to be able to see him once again here in the Valley.

On Tuesday morning Jane decided to try Line Dance class which was fun but a little more advanced than she had hoped. She did learn that there is a beginners class earlier in the morning which she will have to attend if she hopes to progress. Late in the afternoon Jane went to yoga class where they played a tape that the teacher had made before she returned to her home in Alaska in December. It was fun although it would have been preferable to have had the teacher there.

Wednesday morning Paul decided to skip golf since he was battling a bad chest cold. Jane went off to Toys for Tots where they had a large turnout of new people. Even though Jane is hardly an expert in making lap robes for the local nursing homes, she was recruited to show several French Canadian women how to lay out the squares that make the front of the robes. Unfortunately she does not know any sewing terms in French so there was lots of pantomime.

The highlight of the week was Wednesday evening’s 50’s – 60’s bash sponsored by the CRABS (Conservative Retired Adult Bikers) which featured the music of the Agency Band that we really enjoyed. Supper consisted of root beer floats and then hot dogs, chips and popcorn.


Myrna and Jane entered the hula hoop contest but were quickly eliminated. We danced right until the band ended and they were ready to close the dance hall – our McGowan Lake friends know that never happens during the summer but the dances at the lake don’t end at 10:30 p.m.!!!



Paul tried his hand at a Harley. Ah memories of his old college days. The park's CRABs are really an active group in the park, sponsoring events like tonight's dance.

By Thursday, Paul was not feeling too well so we had a really slow day. Friday morning he decided that he needed to see a doctor although he wasn’t keen to figure out how to find one and make our way through the travel insurance system. Fortunately getting insurance approval was straightforward and he found a very nice doctor at the local San Benito Medical clinic. He was diagnosed with a bronchial infection, left the clinic with 2 prescriptions plus a puffer and instructions to return for a follow-up visit on Tuesday afternoon. The doctor had put him on a breathing machine for 15 minutes which started to help his breathing immediately so he was able to join Jane at the Heartfelt Café and gift shop for a late lunch. We also explored the local library which was right next door and used the photocopy machine for the medical receipts.