Feb. 2014 - Part 2

On Thursday February 13, we joined the Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the Good Sam RV club. The meeting was held at the Peter Piper Pizza Restaurant in Alamo. 

The next day we took Blanche and John to Nuevo Progresso so that they could experience a “trip to Mexico”.  We ate at the Red Snapper, explored the shops and returned home with tequila.  We then headed to the park’s first Valentine’s Day dinner where we were joined by John & Carol, Sharon & Tony and Gillian & Gary. It was then off to the Texas Country Dance – certainly a full day for all of us!!

Saturday the 15^th, we took John, Blanche, Tony, Sharon, John and Carol to South Padre Island. 

We drove along the beach hoping the fog would lift enough for us to enjoy the sun but that really didn’t happen.  We enjoyed a delicious lunch at Dirty Al’s restaurant - a famous landmark on South Padre Island.

On our return to Fun N Sun, we stopped in the backside of  Bayview to show everyone Harley’s General Store and Beer Garden. A real glimpse into a country music mecca!

If we hadn't tired out our guests completely, we all enjoyed the Eagles Tribute Show at the Fun N Sun dance hall later that evening – again another busy day.

We said goodbye to Blanche & John on Tuesday the 18^th as they prepared to fly back to Ontario.

 Later that day, we went on a tour of a Shrimp boat and learned all about the Texas / Louisiana shrimp industry.

We are now converts to “wild caught” gulf shrimp although we are not sure where we are going to purchase them once we return to Ottawa.  After the 3 hour tour / information session, we headed to Port Isabel for another seafood dinner at the Pelican Station with Nancy, Jim, Tony, Sharon, Carol and John.

The next day, we headed to Llano Grande RV park in Mercedes for our annual Titanium RV Owners (and Titanium alumni) lunch.

Although it was a smaller crowd than usual, we enjoyed visiting with friends whom we hadn’t seen since the Kingston Reunion last June.

The annual ladies luncheon was held on Thursday February 20^th and this was the best ever. The organizers decided to forego the usual fashion show and opted for a “Chip & Dale” show.

12 men volunteered their services to perform for the ladies – what a fun show.

Later that day about 15 of us rode our bikes through the park celebrating the two gold medal wins by the Canadian women in the Olympics.

It was a prelude of things to come later in the weekend.

Some of our Fun N Sun motorcycle group – the CRABS – went to Fred Booth School on Friday the 20^th. The children certainly enjoyed sitting on the bikes and blowing the horns, so much so that a few of the batteries went dead.

Even the school principal was dressed in red that day so she fit right into the picture. Sue, Jane, Carolyn, Gary, Chuck – all volunteers at the school – posed for a picture outside the school.

Later that day we went to the Canadian pot luck dinner for another fun social event.

Sunday February 22, we got up at 5:30 am so that a group of us could gather around our TV to watch the CBC TV version of the Gold Medal Men`s Hockey game which started at 6:00 am.via satellite.

We snacked on muffins, pumpkin bread, cookies, coffee with liqueurs, and freshly squeezed orange juice and champagne – which was perfect for the gold medal game.

 Around 9:00 the 8 of us went to a local restaurant for a Mexican breakfast – a first for several of our friends. At 1:00 pm we joined around 50 other Canadians for a ride around the park on the Fun N Sun train, bicycles and golf carts

– all of us sporting Canadian flags and t-shirts.

 We were even allowed to sing O Canada that night at the ice cream social. Many of our American friends conceded that if they couldn`t win gold, they were glad that the Canadians had.  This was definitely one of the high points of our winter season here!