Monday 12-23-24 Christmas Dance, BLORA, Games, Playing Pinball & Diamond Paintings

 

Smile and have fun

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. 

We started the day by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. It was a Christmas dance so Di called to Christmas music. Some of the dancers were dressed up for Christmas. Larry wore white pants, red shirt, Santa hat and a red, white and blue belt. I wore a rose color shirt and blouse, rose color belly dance belt and a Santa hat. Di called five tips of C1 to 13 participants. In between the tips we all visited. Michael wore a headband, that was mistletoe and people asked how many kisses he get when wearing it. He said he it doesn't work. So Deborah, Di and I blew him kisses. He caught them and was very happy. He said "I guess it works now". Larry danced four of the five tips with me. Di did an outstanding job of calling and cueing through out the dance. We had a great time.

 

Some of the dancers at the dance

 

Larry spent most of the day playing pinball on the mini pinball cabinet.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 32 minutes and 44 seconds to complete, which put me in 9th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 45 minutes.

I played Asteroid Outpost and Pirate's Plunder three times. While playing Asteroid Outpost I energized a module in ship and mined the asteroids a couple of times. I didn't get a new high score but I'm getting better playing the game. While playing Pirate's Plunder I got a golden metal and a silver metal and a new high score I fought my enemy and sunk their boats twice and received a skull. I did the Skeleton Swarm and raised the flags twice. I had an outstanding time playing. 

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

Playing Pirate's Plunder

 

My score broken down

 

Pirate's Plunder

 

I played a couple of games of pinball, which were the weekly challenge of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Star Wars.

Star Wars

Every year Camp Cavazos (used to be Fort Hood) puts on an outstanding Christmas light show on Belton Lake called BLORA Nature of Lights. It is a five and a half mile trail, which takes you through the park where you enjoy beautiful light displays celebrating the Christmas season. They also have Santa's Village, where you can browse vendor booths, buy crafts, have refreshments and get photos with Santa. There a Santa's Depot, where you can see another trail of light, which can only be seen via a locomotive train (additional cost of $5 for adult and $3 for children 11 and under. 

We hadn't been to this event for years and Larry surprised me by taking me there after dinner. It cost $20 for a car and $35 for mini-vans and trucks. It took us about 45 minutes to drive through the trail. We had a super time seeing new and old displays.

 

Entrance to the trail

 

Nativity 

 

Budweiser display

 

An RV display

 

Mrs. Claus baking cookies for Santa

 

Helicopter (Fort Cavazos) display

 

Military tank display

 

Joy to the World

 

Santa going shopping

 

When we got home we watched a couple of episodes of Elementary. After Larry went to bed I watched Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace. Then I watched a couple of episodes of the 3 season of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 6th place in my group.