February and March 2009/Pool and Babies What a life!

Goodbye's are hard. So of course what do full timers do? Eat! Here is good friend Sharon (Alaska) getting her steak at Deb and Dave's splittin' for the summer party. Yes, eating is a focal point for the residents of Lakeside RV Park!

A new event happened February 9, 2009. Our first great grandchild was born to Vaness and Erick Schram. I got to see her when she was a week old. So beautiful.

There is a bus that takes TRC residents to an Arizona Indian Casino. Friends Sharon & Deb have been going all fall/winter. I signed up to go in January. What a hoot. You watch a video and play bingo on the way over and we let the rest do that coming back (we slept). Since Debbie would be leaving in March, I decided we were going to have a party for the February trip. We all got our own miniature playing cards; teeth; glasses, leis. There were two other ladies that signed up to go with us. We came up with a strategy (get there; sleep; let the 11 buses leave for parts unknown then start playing after 10 pm). It didn't work.

We went out to dinner as a group one night and then 6 of us went to the VFW to play pool. On the gambling trip one of the ladies invited us to the American Legion to play cards on Thursdays. So, we went. We played some cards then went over and started playing pool and that was the start of the Thursday Pool Team. (TPT) It has been 45 years since I played much pool, but I am hanging in there. Through that we got to know more folks. They play from time to time. They live in Hatch and started coming up specifically to watch us act like nuts and play. It takes 4 of us women to control the two men. :) AND the men are banned from practising this summer.