Oct 19th to 21st - Mesa

Oct 19th – Wed
My horrible haircut finally grew out enough to visit the stylist here in the park. She cut my hair last year and did as good a job today. Then we did the laundry before going to the first “watering hole”. It is an afternoon (4-6) dance in the ballroom and there were more people than I expected. An enjoyable country band played mostly danceable music.
As soon as we got back, we picked up Dennis & Gloria to go for wings at Fat Willy’s. Larry & Julie also joined us there.

Oct 20th – Thurs
We attended the coffee & doughnuts manager meeting this morning and then rode our bicycles around the park and visited people. When we were nearing our rig, we saw Gloria standing on the entrance road so we went to see what was up. They were waiting for Direct TV to install a satellite dish and had seen the truck drive by on the wrong road and were trying to flag him down. Terry took off on his bike and eventually found the guy in the wrong section of the park and led him back to Dennis & Gloria’s. Apparently Direct TV had the wrong phone number and then the guy said he couldn’t get a signal from where they wanted the dish installed so they cancelled Direct and called Cox cable.
We joined a group for the first “music in the courtyard” with Curtis Knox entertaining. Terry danced a couple of line dances but the dance area was in the sun and I was already sweating just sitting in the shade. Terry invited everyone (Billy & Lauri, Larry & Julie, Dennis & Gloria) over after for a strawberry daiquiri so the party continued at our place for a while.

Oct 21st – Fri
We went with Billy & Lauri to Fort McDowell casino to play bingo. It is a little boring as the bingo machines do everything and all you have to do is yell bingo. Unfortunately, none of us got to do that! We ate a late lunch there at the intermission and then headed right back after bingo ended. There was an Oktoberfest celebration in the courtyard so we joined some friends to listen to music & have a drink. A group was going to look at Julie’s park model but we came back and then took some tables over to Judy for dinner tomorrow.
We sat out & watched TV for a while and just as I was making a light dinner, Neil & Robin came by. Robin had a snack with us and then we moved back outside and played a couple games of Wizard.