Merry Christmas

Boy, have we been busy. We put our place here at Bentsen Grove Resort up for sale and have had a few lookers, but nothing serious yet. It takes a little extra time each morning to make sure it is all clean and ready to show, just in case some one stops in or calls to see it. The park has a notebook in the office with a listing of units for sale. I made up a page to add for our place. We also have a sign up on the unit so and then it is word of mouth. We will put it in the "Winter Texan Paper" after the first of the year. Hopefully we will get someone that is interested in it.

On the 14th we made a trip to Hidalgo for their Christmas light display. Hidalgo is South of McAllen. We went with Larry and MaryAnn from the park next to ours. Of course we went out to eat first then went for the light show. This is our 3rd winter here and the first time we made it down to see the lights. What a great time we had and the lights were wonderful, so much to take in and it seemed like I was sitting on the wrong side of the trolley to get the pictures I want. Now if I can remember next time to site on same side as driver, I will get pictures of other side. LOL Most of the pictures we taken from moving trolley, so not as good as I would of liked. Also, I haven't learned how to use all the features on the new camera, so that would improve them also. Be sure to click on picture to take you to rest of photo's in "My Photo Album".

From Hidalgo lights and Green Gate parade

Roger has signed us up for Christmas dinner here at the park, it will be at noon, then we will pack up and head to Valley View (were our new place is) and have pot luck with them at 5pm. Boy are we going to be stuffed. I just don't know why we need to have two big meals that day, but as the saying goes...............whatever.

Yesterday morning, I received a phone call from my sister, Linda. She drives truck and was headed this way with a load and wanted to know if we could meet up with her. We had made planes to meet with the couple we are buying our new place with, to go see a lawyer. So I told Linda we could meet her before that. We then took off to check at our old park to see if our packages had been delivered there, then on to meet Linda. She wasn't here yet, but would be around 10:45am, so we headed for Weslaco where she was to unload. We waited till she got there, which was around 11:30 and then went for lunch. Left there and met with Jack and Sharon and lawyer and waited for Linda to call after she got unloaded and knew what her next load would be. She hadn't called, so I called her and she said she was just finished unloading and didn't know about another load yet, so she was going to head to Flying J and park there and get back to me when she found out. After leaving Jack and Sharon, we started for home, on way got a call from Linda, she didn't have a new load and would find out in morning if she got one then. I dropped Roger off at home (we were almost there) and I took off for the Flying J in Edinburg to pick her up. She was going to spend the night at our place, and I would take her back to her rig in the morning or when she found out about a load. Low and behold, we weren't even back home yet and she got a call, she had a load to pick up in Huston by 11am the next morning so she couldn't spend the night and would need to go back to Flying J. Roger was at park next to ours watching a gulf cart Christmas parade so we went there to get him, so he could ride back with me. Buy this time I had not had any supper and hadn't eaten since the Subway sandwich we had for lunch. It was back to Flying J and home again. I felt like I had been driving all day. Regardless, it was good to see Linda and spend a little time with her.

Like I said before, Roger went to Green Gate park to see the gulf cart parade there. We have some friends there (the ones we went to Hidalgo with) and he had is gulf cart in parade. Roger took pictures, so be sue to check them out.

From Hidalgo lights and Green Gate parade

I seems we are ready for Christmas, both of us have finished our shopping and have our cards and packages mailed. We have received packages from three of our five kids and know of one more on it's way so everything is a go. Then we have our plans for 2 dinners and the day spent with friends, Dick and Darlene. All that is left is to wish:

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends from Mission, Texas