Saturday 2-16 Ice Cream Social Dance

Ice Cream Social

It was another beautiful day with the temperature getting to 90 degrees. Sure glad we have air conditioning.

We started the day off by going to the J-Five Saturday get together. The gentleman that bought and served the donuts is going to be 88 tomorrow, he looks decades younger. At the very beginning of the meeting Mary came in dressed up like a sheriff and blowing a whistle. Then she started reading out citations for some of the activities going on in the park such as at the game show night when Marty won a car, she asked her if she filed for the taxes on it. When she entered the room everyone was caught off guard. She did an excellent job of impersonating a sheriffs officer. Everyone laughed and had a great time. When Mary was finished we continued with the meeting. They went over all the activities that's going on in the park for the next week.

The Winter Texan Fiesta started yesterday, it is a two day event with Artesand Market Days and an Outside Concert. It is free to attend and lunch was free if you picked up tickets in advance at the Chamber of Commerce office. We planned on going today but there were hundreds of people waiting in line to get inside the building. We decided to come back later, a couple of hours later there was still a huge line so we decided to pass. 

We walked through a couple of western wear stores, Boot Town and Boot Jack. Larry wanted to buy me a pair of boots but most of the boots didn't have much color to them, you could find boots with colorful shafts but the foot parts were mostly dull brown, not only dull but as with a lot of clothing today they make them look old and scuffed up. Why would anyone want to buy a new pair of boots that look old and worn. We also looked at clothing but we didn't find anything we wanted. After walking through Boot Town we walked through Northern Tools which was right next door. We were just killing time but it was nice to walk through the stores.

We stopped and had lunch at Taco Rico. We had one of their Panchos, they are nachos. It was too big for us to finish. It was good. Then we walked next door to Paris Bakery and bought a piece of carrot cake and a cinnamon roll. When we got home I heated up the cinnamon roll and we shared it, the carrot cake was so dry that we threw it away.

We spent the afternoon hanging around the Minnie. In the evening we went to the Tropic Star to attend Joe Saltel's Ice Cream Social Dance. Ron cued the round dancing and only had six couples. Joe had six squares and an extra couple. We danced with Barb and Larry. We had fun dancing to Joe and with dancers we don't usually dance with.