We have been keeping very busy. We play Pickleball 2 days a week for about 3 hours each day. It is a good competitive group, in fact most are better than we are, but that is a good thing. They say if you play above your head you will get better faster and it seems to be working..... We have also been hitting the nearby Mountain Bike Trails quite often which is always a good work out.
We have been attending a lot of cool events both here at Retama Village as well as next door at the Bensten Palm resort our friends are staying at. Here are some shots of the BP Talent show..........
The fiddle player was awesome !
And this guy was a Trace Adkins Look Alike and played "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" quite well !
At Retama we had a Leap Year Party (any reason to eat and drink I guess). This Leap years theme was a redneck wedding and the cast went all out. Dinner and a Show !!
Some hot mamas. See Mini Pearl on the right !!
Pa had to give a warning speech, complete with Shotgun salvo !!
The groom got out of jail just in time !
I think the Bride is pregnant ! Dinner was awesome as well !
Another event we attended was for a local "No Kill" animal shelter. It was a pet parade and all proceeds went to the shelter..........................
A Cheese Head !
A bumble bee, a butterfly, and a devil................
Frilly Mexican Skirt !
And my favorite, the skunk. A good time for a good cause. Of course there was eating and drinking !
On Friday we went to South Padre Island for the day and a Cruise / Dinner through the Port of Brownsville.......................
Beauty and the Beast
Beach Beauty's - Karli and Bren
Port of Brownsville boat tour.............
USS Kittyhawk Air Craft Carrier. They scrap a lot of warships in the port. Conning tower already gone.....
Here is a view from the back. Those are all open rooms. They take it apart piece by piece. Crazy.
Here are 2 Destroyer Tenders. The one on the left is in process of being dismantled and the one on the right is still waiting...... They say that they are sold for scrap for a penny, but the fees to transport them to Brownsville from the decommissioning in Norfolk can cast hundreds of thousands of $'s.
Side view of the one waiting. These ships carried fuel, supply's, and Ammo for the destroyers they were tending.
Also in port was an oil rig. This one was pulled into to be stored until gas prices go back up. The cost of operating it was more than the profits they could make at today's prices. After the boat tour, they had a dinner set up for us at the Shrimp House back on South Padre. A good day !
Oh yeah cool Jeep shot !
It is hard to believe that in a little over a month we will be heading back north to Montana for the "real" summer..........................
I will leave you with a Meme that my buddy sent me................
Yeah buddy !
More to come !
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