Early November 2013 events

As soon as November started, the park activities resumed and we were back at Aqua stretch class, Computer club, Golf, Toys for Tots, Dance class, the Friday night Country dances, and Jane’s volunteer work at the Fred Booth elementary school. She worked at the Scholastic book fair running the cash register.

We also went on “field trips” to the Don Wes Flea Market (Jane needed new bathing suits), to Costco and to Market Days in both Harlingen & San Benito. It was fun to explore these areas before too many Winter Texans arrive and the venues get crowded.

This year we were here early enough to go to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival and their free session – what we called Introduction to Birding for Dummies. The exhibits were interesting especially to see the price of the binoculars they were selling!!

Doug & Sue arrived on November 10 and parked their new Redwood on a site just two streets away from us. Later that week Myrna & Dave hosted us along with Doug & Sue and Sandra and Dave to an early Thanksgiving dinner. We enjoyed a delicious dinner and the warmth of the propane campfire.

           


The next night was the Canadian club pot luck where we visited with friends we hadn’t seen since April. Saturday night’s 60’s and 70’s dance with DJ Noe had the theme of Opening Day at Deer camp – there was certainly a lot of camouflage clothing being worn that night.


         


Jane loves the flowers here in the RGV – especially when the sun is shining. But what a difference a few hours can make. On Friday the 22nd, we headed out in shorts and sandals to a Margarita party hosted by one of the local Rehab / Skilled nursing centers. The rain started coming really hard shortly after we arrived so Doug, Sue, Paul and Jane were the only 4 Winter Texans at the party with enough food and margaritas for 60 people. We sang some Karoke, had some snacks, met some of the staff and had a great time. We went home with all the door prizes and promised that we would help publicize their next event here at Fun N Sun so that there would be a better turnout.



   


By the time we returned to the park, many of the streets were flooded and they decided to cancel the Friday night dance – only the second time in a number of years. We had over 5 inches of rain in the next several days in San Benito and Harlingen but that was not enough to completely end the drought. How amazing!! We quickly went from shorts and sandals to heavy shoes and sweat shirts under our rain jackets!!