Saturday, January 16, 2010

Alamo Rose RV Park, Rio Grande Valley, TX

We finally got some warmer and drier weather! It is to be in the seventies next week and nearly seventy this afternoon. It will also be clear or partly cloudy for the rest of the week. This will be a welcome change since it has been rainy and cool since we got here.
Our site is just as you enter the park . You can look down the street and see the activity building and office.
If you look the other way you can see the gate and the guardhouse at the entrance.
We have been busy since we got here. Sunday night after we got here our neighbors, Ray and Carol, who we met last year for a week, invited us to go out and eat with them. We went to a Chinese restaurant. It was good.
On Monday we went to the HitchHiker luncheon in McAllen. There were 88 HitchHikers there. Five of the couples were some that we knew. It was good to visit and check up on what they have beeen doing. Monday night we played Mexican train dominoes here at the park with several other couples.
Tuesday I spent the morning at a wood carving group here in the park. There were about six of us. It was an enjoyable time and I met some fellow wood carvers. Meanwhile Barb was signing us up for a Border Patrol tour next Thursday and did laundry.
Wednesday, we went to the big flea market here, Don Wes, with Jerry & Benola and Jim & Mary Beth. It was fun to see our friends from our local Good Sam Chapter, the Cenla Roadrunners. From there we went to this great hamburger cafe. It has no sign and is only open from 11:00 until about 3:00 or whenever they run out of hamburger meat. If you know what street it is on you can find it by looking for all the cars. They make huge hamburgers and the best onion rings. Each couple split a hamburger since they are so large. We had to wait in a long line to put in our order while part of us waited to get an empty table. It took about thirty minutes to get our order but it was worth the wait. We all left full! From there we went back to Bit of Heaven RV Park where the other couples are staying. The men went to see the Mexican flea market that is next door to their park. It was definitely interesting but none of us bought anything.
Thursday, we picked up our friends, Chuck and Kathy and went to the Escapees luncheon in Weslaco. It was good to see them again and get caught up. There were about thirty people at the luncheon. After the luncheon we went to an RV show in Mercedes. All these small cities seem to run into each other. We looked at RVs and bought a few RV accessories and then went back to our rigs.
Friday Chuck & Kathy picked us up and took us to a luncheon with another group, the RV Dreamers.We ate Mexican food and visited. When we finished we went back to Chuck & Kathy's rig to visit. When we were about to leave I got a call from Larry & Gloria that had just gotten in the day before. They had stopped by our rig but we weren't there. Since we were about to leave, Chuck and Kathy brought us home. We visited with Larry and Gloria a while and then called our other Cenla Roadrunner friends. Barb suggested we all go out to eat so we all met at their park and went to a small Mexican restaurant nearby. We had a good time visiting and then all headed back to our rigs. We have at least two more couples from our Good Sam chapter that are coming in this week.
This morning we went to the Saturday breakfast at our park. They have a variety of menu items. It all looked good. We RVer's sure know how to eat!

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