Our First Week of the New Year - January 1-8, 2022

Once again, I'm time traveling back to earlier this year to make up for missing life moments. This blog covers the first week of January 2022. I am writing it on March 22, 2022.

January 1: Our annual New Year's Day Brunch at the RV Park is back.  We didn't have it in 2021 due to COVID-19. We had a good turnout with all kinds of wonderful brunch items including biscuits and gravy, egg dishes, potato dishes, cookies, pastries, fudge, pull-apart bread, and ham. I brought warm homemade applesauce with vanilla ice cream. We had a great feast!

The "dessert" end of the table.

Skip indulging in ham.

Egg dishes, biscuits & gravy, 
and a potato dish.

And below are the hungry travelers. Well, not anymore. We were just about finished eating at this point.

What a wonderful way to start the New Year with our friends who are also our "family" here.

The first day of January went out with a pretty sunset.

January 1, 2022.

Tuesday, January 4: Our Traveler's World Activities Committee met to firm up plans for the month of January. Donna Manring is our fearless leader and keeps the meeting flowing smoothly. Everyone is very good about volunteering to help make the activities in the park a success. Thanks to everyone who turns out and makes the park a fun place to hang out!

Thursday, January 6: Today, there were a couple of popular activities taking place away from the park. Our Ladies Luncheon was at Olive Garden. It's a great way to get to know each other better. There were nine of us for lunch. I think one is missing from this photo.

Susan Alton, JoAnn Brunnbauer,
Mary Blandford, LuAnn Borrison,
BetteAnn Radue, Norena Guerard,
Barb Calmes, Marianne Williamson.

In the evening, Bob and I went to the Floresville Opry with Skip and Sally Blandford, Mike and Connie, and Dawn and Doyle along with their friends Becky and Danny who are visiting. We had never been to an Opry before; basically, it's a country-western concert and dance in a big hall. Most people danced the two-step. Below is a video of Skip and Mary (in the center) on the dance floor.

Dinner was $10. Bob and I shared a plate. The chicken breast was immense and we had plenty of dinner for both of us. They played one rock 'n' roll song during the evening and there were a few rock 'n' rollers in the crowd. I'm happy we got to dance!

Friday, January 7: My friend Susan Medlin and I did the Best of the Heights 10k worker's walk Volksmarch. A Worker's Walk is for those of us who are volunteering at the event on Saturday. This gives us a chance to make sure there are no new obstacles, flooding, or construction on the walk. And, since we'll be working, we likely wouldn't have a chance to do the walk on Saturday. We did find construction on the route, but it was easy to get around it by going to the other side of the street.

Today, I also went to the hairdresser for my haircut and color. That's always a nice reward to myself.

Saturday, January 8: This morning I worked the Start Point at The Best of the Heights Volksmarch from 8-10 am at The Corner Bakery at The Quarry. While I was working, two couples came up to me and introduced themselves. Mark and Suanne Moon, of the Escapees RV Club, came to walk. It turns out that they used to walk a lot. We were glad to see them and they knew a lot of the people in our club. They aren't in San Antonio much because they volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. The other couple came to tell me they enjoy reading my blogs. Aww, shucks!

The walk started at
The Corner Bakery at The Quarry.

After my shift, Bob met me at The Corner Bakery and I did the 10k walk with him. It was still pretty cold outside so we walked fast. We had a very nice walk.

Saturday night, the RV park had a Saran Wrap Ball Party. It's the first time we had ever done one of those. We had four tables of about six people each. Each table had a large saran wrap ball loaded with small prizes. In order to get to the prizes, you had to unwrap the ball using oven mitts! If you unwrapped anything on your turn, you got to keep it. While you were unwrapping the ball, someone was throwing two dice. When they got doubles, your turn was over and you passed the ball and oven mitts to the next person. 

Our table, the dice, and
the oven mitts.

My prizes.

Bob's prizes.

What a crazy game! We won a couple of dollars, some candy, a clutch purse, a small bottle of booze, Kleenex, crackers, and other assorted stuff. I think we were only playing the game for less than 1/2 hour. It went pretty fast.

As you can see, we do an assortment of things in any given week. Just last week, we did two things we'd never done before. It's fun to fire new synapses in our brains. Now, if we could just get a group together to do an escape room!