Wednesday 1-22-25 Beautiful Day & Dancing with Joe Saltel

 

 

Sunny Day

We had beautiful day with sunshine. The day started out at 27 degrees and got to 57 degrees. There was wind but it wasn't anything like yesterday. The wind was 5 to 10mph. 

We started the day out by going downstairs to get breakfast. Today we shared a Belgium waffle and I had eggs. We both had apple juice. We were the only ones at the breakfast area. 

After breakfast we went back to the room and relaxed for an hour and a half. Our dance didn't start until 10:00 and it was just down the street at Tropical Star in Pharr. The dance was called by Joe Saltel, his wife Chris hosted the dance. Chris collected the money for the dance it was $15 per couple. She greeted people with a big hug as they paid. We had nine squares and short one couple to have a tenth. We saw a lot of people we hadn't seen since 2020 when we were here last. One of the couples were Lanny and Sheryl from South Dakota. They are a very nice couple and helped us learn C1. They were very happy to see us. One of the dancers birthday was today so they brought cookies (chocolate chip, white chocolate chucks and oatmeal and raisin). Dancers snacked on them throughout the dance. We were surprised the hall wasn't cold. Joe told us they finally installed heaters. Joe still has medical issues (only one lung works, ribs are still sore and his back has a couple of compacted discs). He did an excellent job of calling the two hour dance. He called eight tips and visited with everyone in between tips. We danced every tip except the last one, it was an open tip and I wanted to take pictures. In fact the first, third and last tips were open tips, which means you dance with whomever you want to. We were given a slip of paper as we entered the dance, which tells you which square you are in for a certain tip. This makes sure everyone dances. We had a super time dancing.

 

Me and Joe Saltel

Joe calling the dance

Dancers have fun dancing to Joe

Dancing to Joe

Larry and Barb from Sundancers having fun

  

We stayed a little bit after the dance to visit with Joe.

In the afternoon I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem of 27 games. It took me 1 hour, 22 minutes and 12 seconds, which put me in 16th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

While I played games Larry read. He finished a book he started yesterday. Later he started another book.

 

Relaxing with a book

 

 When it was time for dinner we walked to Church's. We had their special 2 Chicken Sandwiches for $4.00 and an order of fries. After dinner we walked back to the motel. For our dessert we had oatmeal cookies and peanut butter cookies from the hotel.

I went to the workout room and worked out for 45 minutes, which was 30 minutes on the treadmill and 25 minutes on the weight machines. When I got back to the room I finished my steps, which was 18,000 steps. This put me in 2nd place in my group. I also did 20 minutes of yoga and stretching.

 

Having fun working out

We had a super day.