Happy New Year!

Christmas was quite different for us this year in a couple of significant ways; since we're not around our kids like we used to be, we had no idea what they wanted or needed.  So, Jane embraced the technology and told them to make lists and put them on our Amazon account.  Since we were scheduled to fly from Tucson to Dallas, we wouldn't be able to take presents with us, so she did almost all of our Christmas shopping on Amazon and had the presents shipped to Brian's house.  When we arrived at Brian's, we had only one small problem, we had a pile of Amazon boxes all addressed to Brian and we didn't know whose presents were in which boxes.  It all worked out in the end and everyone got the right gifts! 





  And the other was having Christmas at Brian's house instead of them coming to our house.
It gets pretty crowded in the RV with 7 people so it was nice to have our family together in an actual house with a kitchen big enough for cooking Christmas dinner.  It was a new experience for Brian but he was a great host.




When we got back to Arizona, we discovered that our neighbors had covered Jane's plants to protect them from the freezing temperatures.  Did we mention when we started this whole RV thing that one of our goals was to never be cold again?  People who come here from Canada think this is great, but 28 degrees is not our idea of warm.  It's a good thing we didn't get rid of the sweatshirts and other winter clothes.  At 4:00 in the afternoon, people gather at various spots in the park to sit outside and have "happy hour".  Although we have been invited to several of these gatherings, we have had to explain that we are not snobs.....we just don't sit outside when it is SO COLD.  "Just sit in the sunshine" they say.  Yeah, right. 

But, we jumped back into the swing of things with a New Year's Eve dance where we won a plastic champagne bottle full of candy for "best dance moves".

I'm back to pickleball and golf and Jane has her line dancing.  We go to dances on Friday nights, they have Karaoke on Sunday nights and I've been recruited to play on one of the park's two softball teams.

We really like the park here and people say this has been an unusually cold winter.  Where have we heard that before?  Maybe last year in Harlingen where they hadn't seen snow in 13 years....until we arrived.   

We haven't decided yet where we're going to spend April and May, but we'll figure it out some time in Feb and start making reservations.