Mid-Florida Winnie Fun

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
It was grey and a bit weepy out this morning but already warm enough for shorts and short sleeves. After enjoying breakfast in the beautiful big carpeted motel breakfast room with a solarium that overlooked the pool and a huge courtyard, Ken and I drove again to the Camper's Holiday RV Park for a day with all of our Mid-Florida Winnie friends.

There are 25 motorhomes parked in a very beautiful wooded park with a nice screened in room where we could gather.

 Here I met with the ladies of the group for about an hour this morning bouncing around ideas for gift baskets that our club could create for the State Rally in February.  Many of the ladies came with baskets that they acquired that we could use along with some great ideas of things that could be made.  Several have already begun work on items for the baskets.  What fun it was just feel the excitement and energy of enthusiasm.

Susan Kiefer has asked if I would consider being in charge of seminars for the February rally so I asked for some input and ideas of seminars that might be of interest to the group.  Lots of ideas bubbled up so now the challenge will be to see if the new facilities will even make it possible to do them.  We returned to Susan's new MH for a tour and then talked with the president of the new board about the space that might be available.  He is going to visit it again on Friday so will get back with me after that.  At that point in time I can make a better decision about what I want to do.

We had leftover slices of pizza from last nights dinner that we had brought with us today and put in the refrig at the patio building.  So we just pulled them out and heated them in the little microwave next to the refrigerator and called that lunch.  Not having a motorhome or means for storing any food made it hard to come up with much more of a plan than that, but it worked.

Bob and Margie Whiddon had arrived and come to the patio area so we had a wonderful visit.  It was so good to see them again and hear about what all they are doing.  We also enjoyed a chat with Dave and Donna Rumrill about an Alaskan cruise they had just signed up for that will be in May.  We've spent a bit of time talking about maybe joining them.  We'd need to decide soon as right now there is some special pricing especially on the necessary flight to get to the starting point and then return.

Ken and I strolled over to the area where Tom Zopff and Frank Kiefer were handling the two pots of boiling oil and deep fat frying turkeys for our dinner tonight.  It is quite a process - a bit scary when you see how that oil can splash up as you insert the turkey.

Before we knew it, it was time for Happy Hour and yet more time for everyone to draw together for some socializing. and not long after that to go to dinner at the huge clubhouse a couple of "blocks" away in another section of the campground.  Tonight was a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.  We sat with the Christofs, Christians and Bob Berube.

After some after dinner chatting, Ken and I drove back to the motel to read and do a few things on the computer before calling it a night.