Saturday, March 31st

An early start to the day to get over to the hall and have breakfast of pancakes, bacon, eggs. The last one for the year. Sat with Kenny & Doris, who left right after breakfast for home in Kansas. Safe trip home friends. The number of well wishers probably delayed their departure by half an hour. After breakfast we went around the park wishing several others a safe trip home. I think there are something like a dozen leaving this weekend and another dozen through the week to follow. After lunch I went to play pool and only Don was there to play. A new person in the park came along with his cue and we introduced him to 1/15 8 ball. Turned out he was a pretty good player and the 3 of us had some good games. He was also a good humoured type and would fit in here just fine if all the other players were here. Turns out they have been full-time rv'ers for 3 years and plan to continue for at least another 3 before going back to their home in Colorado. Got new neighbours in the space Kenny vacated. They came up from Yuma and he said it was terribly dusty there with the winds all winter. Nothing new there, that place has that reputation, as well as - can't drink the water. Went for a swim this PM. Marg was there and was already starting to shrivell up from soaking for so long. It was very hot, 95F, so it was nice to cool down in the pool, the water was only 82F. Spent some time talking with a couple of guys I know about all kinds of things. Well now I can say I was in the pool, Hah! After we went to Larry & Nancy's for cocktails. She is the lady that organizes the ladies trips to Globe that Marg goes with. They have a regular cocktail gathering almost every day at 4PM. Bud & Lynette always go there and they are leaving tomorrow. She works on our ice cream social team, very nice lady. Bud's the character who buys all the cars & scooters every year. Spent lots of time kidding him about using a big rock for cruise control on his Zephyr as he really honks on it. Its about 9 yrs old, but even then had a 450hp Cummins. The replacement cost on the coach is about $560K. When he found out Pat & I just set our cruise at 65mph, he said us Canucks were the old guys he passes on the road. This will be their last year bringing the motorhome as they bought a park model. At the end of cocktail hour, a bunch more farewells. As much as we don't like all the farewells, we sure are looking forward to going home. Went out after for supper to the Old Country Buffet. I want to record the name of this place so that we don't ever make the mistake of going there again. Doesn't happen very often, but every so often you find a dud. Tomorrow is supposed to cool off and it will be nice for a change.