Friday December 5, 2014.
Friday? What have we done today? Darn, nothing! Not even a photo to support it.
Saturday December 6, 2014.
It is a special day today!
Happy birthday my love!
Michele is adding a candle to her birthday cake, but there is still a lot of room on the cake!
Today, we are going to a basketball game with Charles and Agnes. We are on our way to their place.
Here we are. They have rented this site from a friend who has not been coming for a few years because of health problems. The site comes with a little house...
After a social drink, we headed out for a walk around the RV Park. That is if we can call it an RV Park! Here is what I mean.
This is somewhat difficult to measure, but this lemon is big enough to do four lemon pies! They are as big, if not bigger then a softball!
What the heck are we doing? A teakettle!
Charles is the spout and me, the handle!
When you have a beautiful house, you have to have a beautiful "Mexican" in your yard! It makes the gravel look good I guess!
On our way to the basketball game.
The State Farm Arena is where the Vipers play.
This is our first ever basketball game for the four of us. The Vipers are the school team for the NBA team of Houston. They are called the Rockets. The Vipers are just a step away from playing in the NBA. Now, to attract fans they have a plan. After all, this team is not about to make money! So, every Saturday games, they have a free BBQ with Hamburgers, water or beer, did I say free?
We got two burgers and two beers each and they were good!
On top of the free food and drinks, we got free Vipers T-shirts!!!
Here we are ready to support a team we have never seen!
Not even knowing we took this photo with the other teams mascot! They are the "Stampede" of Idaho.
The arena can hold 5,500 sports fans either for the Vipers of the other school team, the ice hockey team, the Killer Bees. The red circle indicates our seats.
Ready for the game!
They also supply the BamBam.
Michele having a great time!!!
One of the many mascots.
The Viper's mascot, Fang!
An elementary school choir sang the national anthem and it was very well done.
Game on!
At the end of each quarter, we have demonstration of the local talent. I think it is great for the kids.
A moving moment like only the American can do it! They found a military member in the crowd. They told us about his carer and simply ask us to pay respect for his service to his country. Not one soul was sitting. Very moving! Make you wonder about our country?
At the half time, they had a little competition. He had to fill the garbage can with ballounes not knowing what they were worth. Each garbage can was worth between $5, $25 and $50. He left with $200.
We did not know what that game was until they started to play! The people in brown are burger buns and the crew is placing condiments to pick up. The team that complete a burger first wins.
The Vipers won! Hurrah! By a score of 135 to 123. Because the won we have a free Wataburger each. On top of that, because they won with a score over 120, we also have a free Tacos from Tacos Patenque.
We loved our evening. Let us recap; our ticket cost $15 each. We got two burger and two beers free or more if we wanted. Because the Vipers won, we also got a Wataburger each plus a Tacos because they won with a score over 120.
Not an expensive evening! We left the game under rain!
Back at home, we did the traditional birthday ritual for Michele. Tequilas shooter! This is for Benoit, our youngest son (26).
The liquid!
We are ready for this!
I have to confess, we had to do it twice for the best photos. That is bad!!!
Sunday December 7, 2014.
We woke up to a grey sky with a lot of humidity. Even with a +70 F, the sky make us want to stay home.
It is an indoor day for us. I review all the literature we got for the Rio Grande Valley and make a list of what we would like to visit. It does not mean we will do every single thing on the list.
A boring day weather wise!
Monday December 8, 2014.
Monday and another boring day weather wise. We hop in the car and went looking for "Ropa" stores. I guess our tracking talent is not that good because we had a hard time finding them! Michele is still not sure if she likes it or not. Back home we started a marathon of TV series. Michele with season 7 of Dexter and me with season 3 of Hell on Wheels.
Tuesday December 9, 2014.
I am out on a bike ride this morning and doing some geocaching at the same time. My first cache of the day is a success!
A little closer, can you see the pill bottles?
While looking for a cache in one RV Park, I found another type of homemade bike rack. What a good idea.
A cute little Red-Bordered Pixie butterfly.
One more cache, this one is a magnetic one.
This is another day without the sun. I have to keep a positive attitude towards Texas. I checked Florida and they are no better than we are...
Until next time.
Life is Good!
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