Our First Week In The Valley

Wow! I can’t believe that we have been in Mission, TX for a week already!

We have settled in at Seven Oaks RV Resort and have been relaxing and spending time with our friends.

Our daughter Teri called us to let us know that her husband Lynnie’s grandfather had passed away. Our thoughts are with them in this sad time.

Monday night we attended the Pot Luck here at the park. The food was yummy and we met several people staying here. I forgot to take my camera so no photos of this…sorry

The weather has been really cool here so we haven’t been able to spend much time outside.

Wednesday Mark & Dortha invited us to go to the Flea Market with them so we took off and had a great day!

Mark and Mac headed in to the Market

Mark and Dortha checking things out

Posing for Mac

Mark & Dortha looking at rugs

and Mark and Mac carrying our Fruit & Veggie purchases back to the Jeep.

Thursday, Chuck & Kathy called to see if we wanted to go to the Travel Show and have dinner with them. We declined the Travel Show as my Laptop has been acting up and we took it to Best Buy and were told that the hard drive was going out. I opted to try to get everything backed up to my external hard drive before that happened.

We agreed that we would meet them for an early dinner. Good thing, we declined on the show because when they got to the Convention Center, the Travel Show didn’t even start until Friday…LOL

Chuck & Kathy…

We had a great time with them. We haven’t seen them since we left Kerrville last March.

Friday I finally got my backup completed on the Laptop and off to Best Buy to look for another one. They had a few on sale and I also had a $25.00 certificate to use. I purchased a Toshiba Satellite Laptop. I have friends that have this brand and have only good things to say about them. I decided to try something different since all my HP’s seem to start falling apart about the time the warranty runs out..of course.

Saturday we were up early and off to the park Pancake Breakfast. We needed to hurry because we were heading to South Padre Island with Mark & Dortha and meeting up with Nolan & Donna and Leona & Jerry for lunch at Pirate’s Landing. You all know that I am not a big seafood eater…but I had Stuffed Shrimp and Scallops and they were wonderful. What a difference it makes when you eat fresh seafood instead of the frozen kind you buy in the grocery store..lol

Here we are going into Port Isabel for lunch..

Dortha pointing out a parrot made out of a tire..

Waiting for lunch…

photos out of Pirate’s Landing window

the Lighthouse right next to the restaurant

Then we were off to South Padre to the beach and go to Market Days & Craft Show.

Convention Center

Mac found a new hat…Ugh..NO was my answer…

Dortha & I made a few small jewelry purchases and we were off to the beach to see people flying kites

and a couple of these running across the sand.

Next we were off to the gulf side beach…

Lots of waves breaking..

I had to take a short walk on the beach even though it was pretty chilly..

Did I say…I LOVE my camera!!

We had to stop at Dairy Queen before leaving the Island…Then it was time to head back to Mission..

What a Great day with friends! Thanks Mark & Dortha for taking on this great adventure!!

Mark & Dortha dropped us off at the RV with invitations to join them at their Motor Home on Sunday to watch football.

Stay tuned for more adventures in the Rio Grande Valley…

Hugs to all!

Texas Winter Trip

The weather at home is frightful....we had lots of snow and then temps were in the teens...

We had Christmas at our house with Jenni, Clyde, Gloria, and Natalie. The roads were really bad and with the really cold temps, they suggested we didn't get Jerry out in it. We had a nice lunch and visited for just a little while.

We went over to Ottawa and saw Jerry. He is doing really good.

So, with Mac's doctor clearing him to leave, Christmas behind us and the weather really crappy...we decided to go ahead and make our trip to south Texas.

We locked up the house and will finish the work on it when we get back....

We left Garnett on Tuesday, Dec. the 29th headed to our RV dealer in Chetopa, Ks for a couple of fixes we needed. We left the dealer and made our way south to meet up with Joe and Sherri.

This is what we saw out of the window of our truck...

We pulled in to the WinStar Casino RV Park on Wednesday. We had talked to them on the phone and Sherri had made lunch for us. We had Chili, salad, and Carrot Cake...Yummm, it was so good! We sat and visited for quite a while and then decided to head over to the casino for a little while.

 

 

We decided to meet Thursday morning to go over to the casino for breakfast, but they only serve breakfast on the weekends so we headed in to Gainesville and had breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Great breakfast with wonderful friends....

After breakfast we headed back to our RV's to get everything ready to travel again.

I talked to my sister Wednesday evening. She had had a procedure done that morning and wanted to see how she was doing. I had tried to call her earlier but couldn't get hold of her...didn't have Carlson's or Kendra's Cell number...she sounded good, but tired. I will be checking on her again in a day or two...

We left the WinStar about 11am on Thursday.The traffic through Fort Worth wasn't bad, but when we got to Austin, OMG...the traffic was horrendous! New Year's Eve at 4:00 in the afternoon we hit bumper to bumper traffic about 20 miles north of Austin and continued all the way through and continued about 20 miles south...

 

We left about 11am and headed south on I-35. We stopped in San Marcos at the Canyon Trail RV Resort for the night before going on into Mission, Tx.

Friday morning we were up and on the road about 8:30. We had 280 miles to drive. The sun was shining and the temps were getting warmer...yeah!

We arrived in Mission about 2:00 and made our way to Seven Oaks RV Resort. Miss Guide, our GPS took us in the wrong direction and we had to turn around and make our way back to the Park...

 

We have settled in and even made our Camping World, Target, and grocery run. Temps today were in the mid 60's with 70's predicted for Tuesday...YEAH!

Donna & Nolan, some friends of ours arrived yesterday, and Chuck & Kathy are here at another park. Mark & Dortha will be here on Tuesday. Kevin & Arlene will be here soon...we are going to have a great time with friends! We tried to talk Rod & Deb into leaving Needles, CA and heading this way but they have commitments in Yuma with Rod's sister and visiting another one of our friends Phyllis & Bob.  They will then head to San Antonio to see their son and family.

Well, hopefully that catches us up through today....

Tonight we even went to the Park Ice Cream Social. 

Well, it is time for me to get some sleep...

Hugs to all!!!