Saturday I went with Gail, Marty and Gail to the quilt shop in Rockport, I've been here over a month and this was my first visit. Gail, the only non-quilter in the group is quite the knitter though. I am looking for patterns for Patti, graduating senior and Nick and Sam who will be married 3/22. After we took in several shops then having lunch at the Apple Dumpling Diner, they make all their own bread and pastries. Delish!
While I was gone, Gary and Luci went to the dog park with Bob and Sharon, our Pegs and Jokers friends with their 2 dogs. When they arrived here they had a travel trailer and a 1/2 ton pick up truck. They are "newbie" rv'ers too. Feeling a bit hemmed in with little storage they bought a 40' fifth wheel and a 1 ton truck. The model they wanted was in Houston (4 hr drive) so they had to go up there to sign papers. The dealership delivered it to them at the Bayview RV Resort. Very nice.
After dinner we went out for our daily (atleast) geo cache then went to Copano Bay to watch the sunset.
Our day began very early Sunday, Gary's phone rang at 2:30. The owner of Scott Cycle have a "I survived the holidays" party. They were missing us at the party so they decided to call. Sounded like everyone was having a fine time. When we got up at 8:30, we decided to call Julie, the instigator of the late night call. (6:30 PST) It went to voice mail. Later in the day Julie texted to say thank you for the wake up call.
We did prep work for our move to Harlingen on Wednesday. At 2:00 we went to the ice cream social followed by a couple of games of Pegs and Jokers. We play girls vs boys. Pegs and Jokers is a lot like Aggravation, played with cards and boards with holes sort of like a cribbage board. The object of the game is to go around the boards to get "home" sometimes landing on other peoples pegs sending them back to start. Because of that, you never sit by your spouse, sometimes they get "cranky" being send back several times.
Brrrrr, Monday morning it was 32 degrees and windy. Gary takes Luci out first thing in the morning to potty, I stay inside and drink coffee. We had a mountain of laundry to do. Our site in the park is right across the road from the laundry room, it was full so we went to town. I had 7 loads to do, it's nice to do all the loads at once except for the "going to the Laundromat" part.
Double brrrr, Tuesday it was 31 degrees with the same nasty wind. It did warm up pretty fast though we were able to get the outside things put away for our departure. At 2:00 we played our last games of Pegs and Jokers, this time Steve and Marty joined us. I forget the final score of girls vs boys but the girls rule! After we went to Panjo's pizza for a going away party. The pizza was really good. We said our good-byes and hugged all around. Will sure miss everyone.
Wednesday we finally left Rockport about 11:30, just as we finished hooking up the car it started to rain and continued most of the way. About half way between Rockport and Harligen we stopped at a rest area for lunch. We visited the restrooms, very fancy tile work. We pulled into the RV park about 4:30 with a very dirty car and coach. Palm Gardens RV park was the first built in the area about 1920. It started as a Mobile home park, growing over the years to include RV's with over 900 spaces. Luci has been enjoying the dog park, lots of buddies to play with.
Thursday we decided to check out Harlingen, our first stop being the Pro Bass Store. Truly amazing, they have a large fresh water aquarium, a bowling alley, restaurant, clothing, fishing and hunting supplies and boats from kayaks to large ocean going. We took in historic downtown, a classic car museum and the Iwo Jima memorial. The memorial took 3 years to cast, is 32 feet high with a 75 ft flag pole. One of the six men in the memorial was a local Rio Grande River Valley.
Friday morning we took Luci to doggie day care (thank goodness for ddc.) It took about 45 minutes to get to South Padre Island. We drove to the end of the island geo cacheing along the day. For only $495,000 you can buy a lot on the Gulf of Mexico. In town we stopped at Sea Turtle Rescue. It was started by a lady, who on her own cared for sea turtles that were injured. People in the area took notice, helped out financially and now is a charitable organization. Most of the turtles are able to be re-released except for the ones that wouldn't survive in the ocean. One turtle, Gerry is quite a star, he's been on Johnny Carson. He can't be released because he's too social. Originally his name was Geraldine but at age 15 they found out she was a he. The largest turtle they have is about 200 pounds, he lost a couple of fins due to a boat motor, many, many of the turtles there have lost fins due to tangling with fishing line. We had lunch at Island Brewing Co. (where else?) There was a 3 panel picture, at first glance I saw ocean kelp. Actually it was 5 right handed men sitting at a bar, Gary noticed they all were holding their steins with their right hands. You really had to look to see them. Fun. On our way back we stopped at Port Isabel lighthouse on the mainland. You won't believe this but we have that lighthouse in our collection. We picked up Luci, they only charged $9.00 including a nail trim. What a deal.
We leave in the morning for our 3 day journey to Tucson.
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