PARADISE PARK ANNUAL LADIES LUNCHEON

 

Today was the Annual Ladies Luncheon, and this year the Comedian was Cindy and she was a self confessed Shoeaholic.  As you can see above the decor was completely shoe related.

 

  And every table had a gorgeous center piece of beautifully wrapped shoe boxes and miniature shoes. 

 

 

Even our Carrot Cake had an individual shoe decoration. 

 

 

 The Comedian, was the daughter of one of our residents and did a hilarious routine about her addiction and her collection of the many different shoes she has collected over the years. 

She seemed to have a comical story about every one of the shoes. 

 

 

It was definitely a fun afternoon. 

 

PORT ISABEL AND SOUTH PADRE ISLAND

 

Here in McAllen, we are only about 70 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.  

You get on Interstate 83 and in about an hour you are in Port Isabel.  

  

 

It is a small port town with lots of bays and inlets, with RV Parks,  Marinas and Condos Motels and Rental properties on every inlet and bay. 

 

 

Then you go on over the causeway and you are on South Padre Island. 








 

This is a barrier island on the Gulf that is a real tourist meca.

Spring Break here is just like Fort Lauderdale etc. in Florida. They are both approximately 26 degrees North Latitude, so the climates and temperatures are similar, but it's not quite so humid in Texas.

 

 

 

So, that's where we go for some seaside. 

 

 

 

 



SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING

The Cruisers were playing a Mission Bell last night.  They are one of our favorite live bands down here, so we and two other couples went there for the evening.  

Good Music

Good Company

And a good time was had by all. 

 

This is my favorite activity here in Texas.  You can go dancing almost every night all over the Valley.  It's, BYOB, and the cost is minimal.  Gotta love it. 

 

 

 

 

LETS GO FLY A KITE.

This weekend was the S.P.I.K.E. Kite Festival. 

 

 

 

That's the South Padre Island Kite Enthusiasts that put of a kite flying demo on the beach in South Padre Island. 







    

 There was such an assembly of kites the sky was full of them and it was hard to know where to look, and that built during the day

 

There were so many awesome individual kites that people had brought and put up. 

 

Then there are the EXTRA LARGE blow up type kites that have to be anchored to a vehicle or a huge land anchor.  They are enormous. 

 

 

 Then last, but certainly not least, there was a display of synchronized kite flying, by teams of flyers, that were absolutely AMAZING. 

 

The first was a team of 4 men with 4 kites that zoomed them around and in a out, over and under each other, with me constantly saying, "How the heck do they do that, without getting them all tangled up in each other."  

 

 

 

And here are some of the fliers that accomplish these amazing feats. 

 

They not only watch there kites but they have to kinda dance around to avoid bumping into each other. 

 

Then there was a 6 kite, 6 flyer team, that also did more AMAZING kite flying. 

 

Oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention,

 

THEY DO IT ALL SYNCHRONIZED TO MUSIC!!!

 

I have never done this before but I took a couple of little video clips of these performances, but I can't figure out how to down load them to this Blog.  I will do some research and see if there is some way to post them, and maybe post them at a later date, because still photos certainly do not do them justice. 

 

 

ALL IN ALL IT WAS A FACINATING AND AMAZING DAY. 

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THE NEW WINDOW HAS BEEN INSTALLED

When we came to Texas, we knew we had a broken window to deal with.  Our friends had put a plastic covered cardboard over it to protect the interior from the rain, but once we arrived we knew we had to deal with it.   On January 24th Dan removed the damaged window and took it in to be repaired. 

 

The damaged window has finally been repaired.  They called and we picked it up yesterday, and Dan installed it today.  So, that is the last of the repairs we had to do, from the severe storm that went through here a few days after we left last spring. 

GLAD THAT CHORE IS OVER. 

 

 

Tomorrow is a fun day. 

 

Stay tuned.