Decembre 23 to 26, 2014.


Tuesday, December 23, 2014.


On this morning, December 23, I am still doing some more caches searching.  You must be getting tires of this, are you not?
Oh well!
This spider guarded one of the caches, can you see her meal in her mouth, the red thing?  I thing she winked at me before disappearing!
Look at the palm tree it is windy again.
One of the many little parks within the RV Park.
Here we are close to Charles and Agnes Park.  The Martin family owned about five RV Parks here.
Agnes handing me back the curtain for the pantry.  She did a few minor adjustments.  Thanks Agnes.
We know there is a very good meal coming up.  Meat pie, turkey and stuffing and of course, mash potatoes.  Boy, this is going to be good!
We still have time to chat before diner. We did chat a lot!!
The nice meal reminds me of my Mom's Christmas diner.  So good!
With the meal over, we head to the spa and the pool.  The weather really turned, it is now in the low 40's F.  After the pool, we played Mexican Train.  Michele and Charles won again.
A good thing we are staying for the night... Too much to drink.


Thursday, December 24, 2014.


Our bedroom in the casita.
I am cooking breakfast this morning. I am making "Matte Muffins".  Here I am getting ready before Charles and Ages shows up.
Hummm! Hummm!  Breakfast and mimosa (bubbly wine and orange juice), what a good breakfast.
We have another party to attend and so do Charles and Ages.  We leave them behind before lunch.  Thanks to the both of you for a great time.
We have been invited for Christmas Eve to one of the long-term resident of this park, Andre and Louise.  Andre is the one standing up, next to him is XX and Marthe.
Louise is the one sitting on the left, in the center is Marielle and on the right is Murielle.
We snag songs, we sang crazy songs and other things and boy did we have a good time!!!
On the left is Laurainne.
My Good, do I look serious or what!  On my right is Gerald.
Paul and his wife Anita.
This is the platter we took to the party, I love the Texas shape of it.
A very big thank you to Louise and Andre for inviting us, two complete strangers,  to their Christmas Eve party.  We had a great time and everyone made us feel welcome.

On our way back home, about a three minute walk, we were invited for a last drink at Paul and Anita's place.  We got home at about 1:30 am!!!


Thursday, December 25, 2014.


To all of you!



A bad collage of two photos, but hey!
Our Christmas diner at the clubhouse.  We are sitting with the same people that we were with last evening.  What fun we had.
The RV Park supplies the turkey, ham and mash potatoes.  All we have to bring is all the other stuff, easy.  Let me tell you, you want food, here is food!
My Michele.
And me!!!
The "gang"!
Instead of the traditional prayer, we had a singing prayer with this woman doing sign language over the song.  It was very nice.
And I held back on the food!!!
After this very good meal, we had music, some French and some English.  The music was with Jean Noel and XXX.
Most of the people that stayed back are francophone.  By that, I mean the English people tend to be much older and leave for their afternoon nap!  It is the way it is.
By four we left and headed home with a full belly and many memories in our heads.


Friday, December 26, 2014.


I have the last of my appointments to install my two teeth and the posts.
Everything went well.  It feels funny to have the "hole" filled after 20 years.
The North Shore RV Park owners where we stay in Ontario recommended we eat at Rene's.
A little snack before we get our lunch!
We even got some live entertainment.
The Mexican plate for Michele.
Grilled trout for me, Mexican do not know how to make good French fries.  The fries are frozen fries and not cooked long enough!!!
Our youngest son, Benoit, likes crosses, no he is not a "Born Again", he simply likes them.  Here a few we are looking at for him.

 On our way back from Nuevo Progreso, Mexico, we go through Progreso, Texas and stop to find one more cache.
 
The last few days were some busy.  Diner with good friends, Christmas Eve party with some people for this park.  Christmas day lunch with the same people as last evening and they are very good people.  Got my teeth all done now.

Until next time...

Life is Good!

Decembre 19 to 22, 2014.


Friday, December 19, 2014.


We wake up to a cool and cloudy sky.  Another "boring" day coming up!  
We decide to go and have a look at the Feldmans Market store.  Michele takes me by surprise and we stopped at the Texas Thrift Store.  While Michele does her shopping, I am out on some caches searches.

We finally made it to the Feldmans Market.  WOW and double WOW!  This is like the LCBO in Ontario, but with a lot more choices.  They even have a small deli where you can buy pate or other fine cuisine stuff.  Also, they have a salad and sandwich bar within the liqueur store.

Our next stop was at the H-E-B (grocery store) and we purchased these salmon patties.  They are made with Jalapeno, hummmmm!
It does have a bit to it, but it is good.


Saturday, December 20, 2014.


We woke up to a cloudy sky and a maximum of 59 F, but I am not complaining!  There is nothing white to shovel!!!

This morning, I am out with the car looking for more caches.  The Rio Grande Valley is not pedestrian or bike friendly.
The first cache is behind the Radio Shack.

Can you see it in the middle of the photo?

One of the cache is a nano.  It is the small silver dot behind the box.

The last one for this morning.  This one was hard to find.  It is located on the left of the big leaf.

I must have looked around for 15 minutes before I finally found it.

In the south, they have a lot of ants.  Every now and then, I do a check around the motorhome and the empty sites around us.  I found one behind us.  I go on the attack before it gets too big and starts to create more nests.

This piece of plastic contains bait/poison and should kill them within a day or two.

After lunch, Michele and I go out to Weslaco.  Michele goes shopping and I do some caches.  Look at this temperature, a heat wave?

No photo for these afternoon caches.  All the small "shops" selling fireworks for the Christmas and New Year celebration are now open.

On the way home, we decided to travel a little further and see what the neighbourhood is like behind the RV Park.  It is a very, very poor neighbourhood.  A horse tied to the wall and "cutting" grass.

One of the little houses.

This family started to build a house, but have run out of fund...  Look at the 5th wheel on the right!  Yet, they have a nice car!!!

What a weird house!

The clubhouse has a charity auction between four and seven today.  We have to check out the stuff, but find nothing of interest for us.


Sunday, December 21, 2014.


Christmas is coming up fast!!!

Another cloudy day with some rain coming up later.
Once again, since it is not a good place for bike riding for me, I am out doing some caches.  Here is one of them.



This is one of the nano caches.  They can be hard to find sometimes.



We spend part of the afternoon walking around the flea market next to the RV Park. 


Monday, December 22, 2014.


What?  No photos for today!!!
It happens some time.
So far, I have found 72 caches.  Some of them are in Ontario and most of them are in the Rio Grande Valley.  
Michele goes to the pool in the afternoon and I sit outside the pool!  The pool water really does not like me!!!
Usually the evening we play petanque on Sunday, but it was too cool to play.  The games are being played tonight.

Until next time...

Life is Good!