Sunday ; La Joya
Partially sunny, very warm, humid.
After an early ( for us ) lunch we left for La Joya heading west on Hwy. 83 / Interstate 2 / "The Expressway". We went to La Joya High School to attend the Musical Theater students' production of "Back To The 80's" ... a high school musical, of course. Well ... it was not as good as we had expected. The students could act well, and dance well, but ... most of them couldn't sing worth shit ! Nice hair, though ! HA HA HA < SNORT > HA HA ... recent Canadian political joke !
We returned to Kenwood RV Park just in time for the regular Sunday ice cream social at 6:30 PM. Bill and Lynne had not wanted to attend the high school musical with us, but came to the ice cream social. We chatted with them and another couple for awhile before returning to our camper for supper.
Monday ; Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Mostly sunny and very warm.
Had a great day ! This morning we headed, with Bill and Lynne, in their car, to Mexico. We spent the afternoon wandering around, browsing, buying a few items and having a great lunch at Arturro's in Nuevo Progreso.
Upon our return to Kenwood RV Park, arriving home about 4:30 PM, we spent the rest of the afternoon floating around the swimming pool.
Tuesday ; La Feria and Mercedes
Partially sunny, warm for most of the day, cool for a couple of hours around suppertime as a cold front passed through.
After lunch we went into La Feria to run some errands. We refilled our five gallon water jug. We bought some groceries at the Mexican supermarket in town. I bought a long handled squeegee at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Our old one broke. Mid-afternoon we went to the swimming pool and hot tub with Bill and Lynne.
At dusk we left, in our truck, with Bill and Lynne, to go to a drive-in movie. We stopped at Church's Chicken in La Feria and bought some chicken to have a drive-in movie picnic dinner. Everyone else liked the Church's Chicken. I thought it was too greasy under the skin. I don't know if Mr. Colon will object to that. Probably will !
The WesMer Drive-In Movie Theater is in between Weslaco and Mercedes. Tonight's first feature was The Peanuts Movie. WOO-HOO ! Charlie Brown wins the heart of the little red haired girl. We watched only a few minutes of the second movie before leaving. Some violent crap movie about witch hunting. When we arrived home at Kenwood RV Resort the gate wouldn't open to let us drive through. Bill and I climbed over the gate and still we could not get the gate to open, even using the inside keypad. Eventually Bill walked to their site and returned with their car, using it to open the gate ( electronic "eye" and weight sensor to allow vehicles inside the gate to get out ).
A few minutes later, after parking their car and our truck at our sites, we returned to the front gate where I removed and discarded a kitten carcass from the road just outside our park's gate. < sigh >
Wednesday ; Alamo
Sunny and warm, a really nice day.
This morning we headed out, with Bill and Lynne, in their car, to Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge near Alamo. Joanne and Lynne had each prepared a picnic lunch. We wandered around Santa Ana's Visitor Center for awhile before eating our lunch in the picnic area. We went on an hour and a half guided tour by tram of the Wildlife Refuge, then spent the rest of the afternoon hiking on the bird watching trails.
After returning to Kenwood RV Resort we floated around the swimming pool and soaked in the hot tub until it was time to return to our rigs to cook supper and watch Survivor.
Thursday ; Donna, Edinburg, Mission, and Weslaco
Mostly sunny, warm, humid.
I had a lazy morning. Joanne did laundry. I did obedience training with Bo and some minor maintenance on Elsie ( the truck camper ). Mid-afternoon we left, in our truck, with Bill and Lynne, to attend two events. First stop was Ron Hoover RV in Donna so that Bill could buy an RV part he needed. Next we went to a Welcome Back Winter Texans event in Edinburg sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. We realized at the entry door, prior to paying our very small entry fee, that there wasn't as much there as we had expected, and decided not to attend.
We drove to Mission and found our way to Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park to check out operating hours, admission fees and attractions, then did a bit of RV park "slumming", visiting an RV park that we stayed at many years ago, and viewing a very upscale RV park that was under development last time we were here in the Rio Grande Valley seven or eight years ago. By then it was time for supper.
We had supper at Ace's BBQ in Mission. Pretty good ! Mind you ... I suppose I've never had barbecue in Texas that I didn't like. HA HA HA ! After supper we drove to Weslaco to attend Al Fresco Weslaco, a "street party" somewhat like Village Fest in downtown Palm Springs, with live music and many types of food and arts and crafts being sold. Mind you ... comparing Weslaco to Palm Springs is like comparing a pair of denim shorts purchased for fifty cents at a thrift shop to a tuxedo. HA HA HA < SNORT > HA HA ! We didn't spend very long at Al Fresco Weslaco. The live music being performed was bad jazz by a school band. There was a very interesting police vehicle parked at the event, and while we were standing near it criticizing local police forces' use of taxpayers' money, the police officer inside the truck used his loud hailer to invite us closer. Turns out that the "lifted" and heavily modified pick up truck was seized from a drug dealer ( lots of them around these parts ! ), so there was no cost to the local taxpayers for this very "souped up" police truck.
We arrived back home at Kenwood RV Resort in La Feria about 9 PM.
Friday ; La Feria and Weslaco
Cloudy, warm, humid, raining until mid-afternoon.
We had a slow, lazy start to the day. Around noon we left to have lunch at Stars, a hamburger drive-in nearby in La Feria. After lunch we headed west to Weslaco for shopping at Wal-Mart and H-E-B. We were back home by mid-afternoon. We bought some vegetables and fruits from the Mexican produce vendor who comes to this RV park every Friday afternoon, then headed to the swimming pool and hot tub with Bill and Lynne.
I cooked supper. It was a new "invention" recipe of mine. Pan grilled tortillas, slices of pan grilled turkey bologna on the tortillas, eggs fried in Crema Salvadoreña on top of that. It wasn't as good as I had hoped. Oh, well ... you can't hit a home run every time at bat.
We watched Amazing Race while eating our Huevos en Crema Salvadoreña con Bologna Pavo.
Saturday ; La Joya
Cloudy, warm, humid early in the day ... cloudy and cool after a cold front passed through in mid-afternoon.
This morning we ... < ahem > ... ! At noon we left for La Joya, about 70 km. / 45 miles west on Expressway 83 / Interstate 2. We had a very good lunch at Church's Chicken in La Joya, then went to La Joya High School for this afternoon's Conjunto concert. The Conjunto bands from three different local high schools each performed for about half an hour. Conjunto is one of the three "Tex-Mex" genres of music, along with Tejano and Norteño. But ... in Conjunto, the "lead" instrument is accordion.
On the way back home we stopped at PET WORLD to look for the type of dog nail clippers I want to buy. They did not have them. Once back at home at Kenwood RV Resort we went to spend the rest of the afternoon in the swimming pool and hot tub with Bill and Lynne. In the evening we watched the animated movie “Free Turkey”. HA HA HA !
DSK
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