Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Dec 13th to 16th - Mesa

Dec 13th – Sat
We believed the weather forecast for rain & cold weather and canceled our group golf game this morning. It was a good decision as it was cold and the course would have been soaked. I used some of the morning to catch up on the blog.
The rest of the day has pretty much slipped my mind – again! We went to the AZ Opry for the first time this season. It was the Christmas show with enough changes from last year to be a new show to those of us with failing memories. Instead of alternating chicken & beef dinners, they are now serving smaller portions of each meat with every meal.
Dec 14th – Sun
We went to Neal & Judi's for their annual Christmas brunch. Judi does a beautiful job of decorating tables and makes wonderful food. A propane heater took part of the chill off and some people chatted in the sunshine in the street after eating.
We stuck bits of the decorations for the bikes back on before delivering them to the rest of the group that will be in the parade. Of course trips around the park on the motorcycle end up with short visits here & there as well. We made a trip to WalMart which included some chicken for dinner as I was feeling lazy.
Diane came over and we made invitations for Ernie's birthday party in January.

Dec 15th – Mon
I was making deviled eggs for later when Phyllis stopped in for a short visit.
We went for a late breakfast at Red Mountain Cafe where I enjoyed their crunchy French toast. We went to WalMart for a few more groceries and candy to throw during the parade. We waited to get the candy as the weather forecast has included rain for Wednesday. Today it looked like the rain would be later so hopefully the parade will happen.
We picked up a sign for the parade and delivered it to Allan & Diane. We ended up chatting with them long enough that Allan decided it was time to have a drink.
After dancing to the Brookharts in the courtyard, we changed clothes and went to Jerry & Becky's Ugly Christmas Sweater party. They reserved 2/3 of the new multipurpose room in the fitness complex. We all brought heavy appies and music was provided by Bruce & Duane. Lots of creativity showed in the ugly sweaters.

Dec 16th – Tues
Don & Susan picked us up at 8:30 for a trip to the casino. After getting coupons and eating breakfast, we all went our own ways to whip the slot machines into shape. Unfortunately that didn't happen!
We relaxed & played free computer games when we got back and I got some dinner started on the stove and then put it in the crock pot. Van Arlon was playing in the courtyard and Bobbie was there to suggest line dances so we danced a lot. We ended up eating there as well since the Tuesday special was steak and/or chicken fajitas that looked & tasted great.
I put our dinner in the fridge and we rested before going to line dance lessons.
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