Windy City

  Quartzsite, Arizona, United States
Sunday, January 11, 2009

The winds have died down today, to about 11 mph. Just enough to keep the air cool, but the sun was out full force and a few feathery clouds floated through the blue sky.

Today was breakfast by our hosts. They fixed us an omelet in a bag with ham, cheese and green onions. We were going to have a brunch breakfast, but they decided to fix it for us. Therefore, I had all these ingredients for a French Toast Souffle and I made it anyway and shared it with everyone. So I was up early, 5:45 to get it ready to bake. When I found out breakfast wasn't until 9 am, I went to sleep on our couch and slept so good. The room was warm by then.

After breakfast we had a triathlon for old people. Wait a minute, we aren't old! We split up into teams S, K, and P - which stands for Escapee -SKP. Dale and I were on K team. Our first event was to take a patty mint and unwrap it and eat it with a knife and fork while wearing these huge, bulky gloves.

Dale multitasking

There were 11 people on each team and the timing was for the whole team. We won that round. Our next event was the disc throw using plastic plates. Of course, Dale and I got a good ribbing because we won the cow pie toss at the September Rally - me the year before and Dale two times in a row. They added up the distances for each team members throw to determine the winnerI got lucky and the wind caught my plate to take it the top distance of all the teams which put us in first place. Yahoo, Gwen. NOT. Next, we had to stand in a line, spread our legs wide and .

Gwen with the winning toss

the back person had to throw a ball through the legs all the way to the front. Then the front person would run to the end of the line and start all over until everyone had thrown the ball once.We came in second.  So Team K won the triathlon and a bag of candy. 

Ball Toss

More tents

Then we took off for town to buy a flexible hose for the LP gas heater. Dale had decided to go ahead and buy the one we found a couple of days ago. While at the RV place, they were giving away a free hot dog and drink and had 6 good old boys playing their guitars and singing. We grabbed lunch and sat for 10 minutes to listen and went to Herbs Hardware to buy the hose at a $2 savings.

Tents at Quartzsite

Then we went to ice cream, toured the town and came home to cook stuffed green pepper casserole for potluck dinner tonight.

I am here to tell you once again that Chapter 37 SKP members love their food and know how to cook. We had so many different dishes with only a couple being the same. Our favoriate was the sausage and kraut dish. Yummy. Doris made a cake and as always, her cooking is just downright sinful it is so good. As we were leaving dinner, the full moon came up over the KOFA Mountains and it was beautiful. Take a look.

Full moon over the KOFA Mountains

Kathy and I went to Donna's house to play cards and learned a new game called "Maneuver." It was fun and we had a good time chatting and sharing RV experiences. Another day down with a full day ahead tomorrow. Morgan gets a bath. Goodnight and hope your home is well and happy.