We had an easy trip home. Buying the early boarding snagged us Row 4 aisle and window. The middle seat was not guaranteed to be empty but no one tried to claim it. The flight was just like going over, uneventful.
I had Wednesday to get unpacked and do laundry. Thursday I signed up to work at The Hand Me Up Shop. I didn’t have to be there until 11:00 so I had my morning free. I stopped afterwards to pick up a few things from Walgreen’s and then made my way home.
We decided to use our season tickets at Owen Theater on Friday evening. Imagine our surprise when Holiday Inn was not playing but instead a Chorale performance. What a wonderful show they put on. We were socially distanced in a less than half full theater and everyone wore masks. I guess they did what they could to carry on. It’s been a tough year for them.
The singers were all wonderful. They sang Grinch to O Holy Night with lots of jesting going on in between. It was just what I needed to spark a Christmas spirit. I am still not sure it will flame but it is a start!
Our camping club, Texas Boomers, was having a Christmas rally up in Conroe so we made a point of going up for a visit on Saturday. Unfortunately there were only 8 people we knew. It has been 5 years since we attended a rally and people do move on and get replaced by new ones. But their motto is “Once a Boomer, always a Boomer.” We are still Haulin’ HitchHikers and DOGs (DRV Owners Group). You make friends that stay friends for life. Sandy, who I visited with in New Braunfels and has lost her husband, was there in her new Jayco motorhome. The DRV was just too much for her to handle. She has a great unit, very suitable for her and easy to manage.
We visited with Pat and Don from Killeen TX. They have been members since it started. There were three other couples there but one was masked up, staying away from everyone and only dropped a quilt off to Sandy. They couldn’t wait to get away! The other four visited with us and we talked about the Karavan to the Keys rally next year. It is about 16 rigs all making their way together down to the Keys and then everyone heads out to wherever. Many musicians are in the group so “concerts” happen most evenings. It is a pretty hard drinking group and that isn’t us so we will proceed with caution. We told them we will think about it.
We went to Mass and came home after stopping for a late lunch. Everyone had invited us to dinner at the rally hall but they were eating at 5:00 and we thanked them but said we were attending church at that time.
We met our friends Tommy and Susan and Jay and Stella way back in 2005 at a Boomer rally and they are some of our best friends now. In fact, we are having lunch with them on Monday.
We were both home all day on Sunday. I did some deep cleaning and then dragged out the few gifts I had to wrap. There was more check writing than wrapping but eventually I got it all done and am ready to hit the post office. Ted fixed dinner and we settled in for the Dolly Parton special.
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