Saturday 6-22 Changing Interests

Smile and have a great day

Today we just hung around, the wind was blowing hard again.

A few days ago we had a conversation about how our interests have changed in the years. While we were living in Tucson we raced radio control cars. We started out by racing 10th scale electric cars. On Saturday mornings we would meet at a gentleman's house where he had a track and race with a lot of other people. It would be an all day event. You would be put into different groups. If you won you would get money back or gift certificates for merchandise at the local hobby shops. I participated in the racing. I wasn't too good but had fun. Gradually we moved into 1/4 scale gas cars. When we were in 1/4 scales cars we would met on the weekends to race in a parking lot with three other guys.  On some weekends we would go to San Diego and race. Every year there was a big national race in Las Vegas, drivers from all over came to race. We met a lot of people and had a great time. When we moved to Austin we stopped racing. Years later we got back into it, by then Monster Trucks came out so Larry bought me a truck to race in the Monster Truck group. I was normally the only woman racing and I had a great time.

When we moved to Austin our interests changed. We bought a boat. Larry taught me how to drive the boat because it usually was just the two of us. Larry also taught me how to water ski. As the years went by we both learned how to, wake board, Air Chair and wake surf. At the beginning we would get up early in morning and be on Lake Travis by 7:30. We would be on the lake almost every day. We also had bought a lot on a private ski lake in Creedmoor Texas, after work and on Saturday and Sunday afternoons we skied there. We kept a boat on Lake Travis and another on the private lake. We averaged 80 days on the lake each year. The last couple of years we have only averaged 14 days. It just seems like we're not as motivated as we once were plus we now travel a bit during times we use to boat. We still have a great time once we were on the lake.

After moving to Austin we also learned to scuba drive. We would fly into places like, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Antigua. Over the years we dove over 200 times. We then got into snow skiing and camping and quit diving. Diving also required flying which got to be more difficult and when baggage fees came along it was really expensive to fly with dive gear.

When we started snow skiing we would sometimes drive and other times we would fly. We would take multiple trips each year. We still like to ski but today we only ski once a year and sometimes not even that.

Now our interest is Square Dancing, we started five years ago. At the beginning we would dance six days a week but now we dance two or three times a week. When there is a special dance we will go. The special dances are usually on the weekends and for a couple of days. We now dance higher level square dancing and in order to get floor time we have to travel. We love square dancing and have met a lot of great people and super callers.

I guess our interest have changed but we still are having fun learning new things. We still do some of our old interests but just not as often. LIFE IS GOOD.