BOXING DAY IN SIESTA VILLAGE.

Our boating friends Sharon and Casey have an annual Boxing day party at their place in Weslaco each year.  On Friday we went to that Boxing day party.  Always great fun.  

Sharon finally hit the jackpot weather wise.  Usually we have to dress very warmly for this party, as it is outdoors and January 26th is not known for it's tropical temperatures.  

These two weeks around Christmas and New Years the weather, in this area, usually bottoms out to the lowest it gets for the year.  But this year's high for the day was 80F/27C.  No one can complain about that.  

 

SO NOW IT'S ON TO NEW YEARS EVE

CHRISTMAS IN PARADISE PARK

Paradise Park has a lovely Christmas Dinner for all of the Residents.  You buy your ticket and put your name down for a particular table.  The ticket pays for turkey, stuffing and gravy.  Then you communicate with the others at your table to decide what else each of you will contribute to the dinner in a "Pot Luck" sorta way.  

  We go over to the hall in the morning with our place settings, and set up our tables, then we arrive for the meal around 11:00 am, to mingle and greet everyone and wish them Merry Christmas.  The dinner is served at noon.  

 We  are usually back home around 2:00, to rest up for the second sitting of left overs at around 6:00 .  Mmmmmm, Turkey sandwiches and Deserts. 





I'M STUFFED

THINGS TO DO IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY

I've just been working on my January Newspaper and we certainly have a few dances to look forward to in the park this season. 

 Plus there are all the dances that we usually look forward to outside the Park.  There are a couple of groups 

 (The Agency and the Cruisers)

that we like to follow, which we haven't been out to see yet.  

We did go out with friends last week to a bar called "Buchanans."  

Just a Country Western bar, but it did have a nice big dance floor and I did get to dance to a Jimmy Buffet tune.   


IT WAS A GOOD HAPPY HOUR!