Both of my “card parties” went well. My refreshments were well received by the participants. There were some leftovers but not too much.
We had a quiet rest of the week until the unlikely happened .. Snow! We got a few inches and the whole area shut down.
We had decided to get a pizza for dinner and Jet’s was closed. So was Chik Fila, Whataburger, Dominio’s and two others! Finally Subway was open! It stayed that way for about 3 days. Ted said nothing was open but H-E-B and the roads were empty. By the third day our snow was gone.
We are on our way home now from the Rio Grande Valley so whatever happened before we left on 1/26 is not making it into the book!
We drove down Sunday a week ago with no problems and made our way to McAllen, meeting Tom and Eileen at Cheddars, then moving on to BJ because of the crowd. Then we went together to the condo we rented together. It was not the Ritz but roomy, clean and comfortable! We both had our own bed and bath plus kitchen, dining room and living room. Then began the learning curve. Front gate needed a card that was in a lock box. It didn’t work so we tried the code provided and it did so we put the card back in the box. The condo lock was a number plus my phone number, we’re in!
We gave the king bed suite to them and took the queen room with the hall bath right next door. There was a LR with couch and loveseat and big TV. It was necessary to stream our own subscriptions which is very common anymore. Of course it was a learning curve. We have Prime, BritBox, Netflix, Masterpiece Theater and Xfinity Streaming but signed up for a trial week of Paramount so they could watch football. I canceled it Saturday night. I am not sure just what we did but eventually found what we were looking for! But I can’t explain step by step, more like trial and error!
We went over to Mexico three days, had lunch with a Retama neighbor one day, shopped a bit, walked a lot in the flea market only to buy some tomatoes and vanilla, visited the gift shop at Our Lady of the San Juan Valley Basilica. We went to a mariachi Mass there on Saturday night. This is the only photo I took all week, the outside tower of the basilica.
We ate lunch out and had breakfast in and snacks in the evening, Only glasses, cups and silverware made it into the dishwasher. We just didn’t use any dishes!
We went to three shows while there and we certainly picked really good ones. They are moving away from just country western vocalists and bands. We saw an illusionist (magician) who was very entertaining! Next was a ventriloquist, also very good with lots of laughs. I learned a new curse word toro poo poo.
Last night was a Las Vegas lounge singer who worked the crowd really well. He had a moving salute to veterans and our country. We were one of 5 couples invited to dance to honor 59+ years of marriage. I even won a $5 Chili gift card! A great end to a memorable week.
We are less than an hour from home and have less than two weeks before leaving again.
Happy Groundhog Day!
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