Feb 17th

Busy day, got up and went for coffee & donuts this AM, the hall was pretty full. They had nominations from the floor for Pres & Vice Pres and that caused quite a stir, as predicted. It was all the chatter around the park this AM. As I said we are out of it and just interested observers. The current Pres & VP are people we have had cocktail hour with and visited with several times. The guy challenging the Pres is a fun guy, plays poker with us & Marg bingos with him & his wife. The guy challenging the VP is not well known to us, other than he is not so popular with the people we know. The other thing that happened during the morning announcements was when the Pres mentioned today was a pool tourney at Eastgate [our toughest competitor], the pool team organizer got all huffy about holding the pizza event today when Thursday is always inter-park play. It was a little uncomfortable when he said she had taken away some of his best players. There were 3 of us at the pizza - oh well, the good news is I was included, no matter how I play! We went to Organ Stop Pizza, rode with Kenny & Doris and Almyra [the current president]. When we got there we sat with Ron [the current VP] & Mary as well. Greg [the challenger for Pres] sat with a bunch on the other side of the dining room. Poor Kenny is the election committee chair & has said he is just here to have fun, so will not be doing that job again. On a lighter note, we always wanted to see Organ Stop Pizza and it was great. They have a huge pipe organ with every type of pipe, bell, whistle attached; the music was very good. The theatrics around it were as well. The organist said it had over 400 keys and the pipes ranged from big ones that were 1,500 pounds to small ones that were 3 inches long & a bunch of other technical stuff. When he played O'Canada even the flag dropped down, pretty cool. They had a bubble machine which at times covered the audience in bubbles. The pizza was very good & was buffet style, so there were 4 or 5 kinds out all the time. Glad we went. Later it was BBQ for supper, but I must have had a senior moment because the potato & veggies were not well done, Marg made quite a show of the difficulty cutting them. HaHa, she thinks she is the resident comedian some days. When we got back we were treated to a marvelous sight with the moon hanging just over Superstition Mtn. Oh yeh, it was a nice day, temp was in the hi 70's.