A Quiet Sunday

After a fun day of potlucking and playing some group games and some great fellowship we are just kicking back and relaxing this Sunday morning.  The sun is bright, there and  is very little wind.  Makes for a nice winter day in the Arizona desert.

Yesterday was the grand finale of our RV Forum Rally.  We started out a 2:00PM with a group picture.  Several pictures were taken hoping that in least one of them everyone has their eyes open and is smiling.  That was followed up by some formalities of honoring some of the people who make the website and these rallies possible.  Next was a great potluck dinner with a wide variety food available.  It was great to try some different foods, including a delicious southwestern rice salad, and some tamales cooked in corn husks.

After the meal we played some games and some "prizes" were awarded to the "winners", and other deserving people.  The "prizes" were donated items by the rally members consisting of gag gifts and items from their rigs that they no longer wanted or needed.  The first "prize" was for the best walker on our morning two mile walk.  I was awarded the "prize" which turned out to be two picnic trays.  Ann will love them as the tray is compartmentalized which will prevent her different foods from touching one and other.

Then we played a game of pass the balloon with your knees.  I was fortunate to have Ann and three others who played this game quite well, and we were the winners.  Our "prizes" this time was a bottle of spray air freshener, and a white sock for Ann, and a Woodalls bag with toilet chemicals, and a spatula for me.

The next game we played was a type of poker where each person had a playing card in their party hat. Where we were divided up into groups of five, and if the five didnt feel they had a great poker hand, you were allowed to move to a different group, or something like that.  Anyway I had an ace, and Ann had a joker, so we shuffled around until we found three others with aces.  Five aces was a good enough hand to win, despite the fact that one team ended up with eight sevens! This time Ann and I decided not be "prize" hogs, so we let two people on the second place team take our prizes.

This was followed up by the awarding of  "prizes" to other who deserved them, including those who were nice enough to use their vehicles to pick up the garbage each day and take it to the dumpster so each of us didnt have to make individual trips.  Other "prizes" went to the RV Forum staff members, ladies who baked cupcakes for desert, Bob Buchanan for his efforts in organizing the rally, and taking of the group pictures, and some other deserving folks who I cant recall.  Did I mention that one of the members of the group brought a "handle" of Wild Turkey? 

By then it was time to call it a day, so back to the motorhome, a little TV, and some computer time, and the end of another great day in the Arizona desert.

Paul