January 20-27/15

We arrived at Seven Oaks RV Resort in Mission Texas last Tuesday. It is a 55 Plus park so Rob had to sneak me in since I haven’t reached that age yet!! lol

As soon as we arrived, we were warmly greeted by many of the Winter Texans who spend their winters here. In fact everyone here has been so friendly and welcoming . We wonder if many of them just like talking to us as we likely remind them of their own kids as we are probably closer in age to their kids then we are to the people in this park.  (that’s maybe a bit of a stretch but not too far off)

One of my goals while in Texas was to learn how to Line Dance. This park offers Line Dancing lessons on Wednesday and Friday mornings so both days Rob and I went to the class and learned how to dance. The first day Rob was the talk of the park as he was the only man in a class full of at least 30 women. The Teacher was very kind to us the first class as she went over the dances several times and didn’t teach anything too complicated to learn. The second class didn’t go quite as smoothly though as we were taught harder dances and had a lot less practice time before dancing to music. When you have to learn 5-6 different dances in 1 hour it is difficult. Rob felt a little more comfortable during the second lesson though as one other brave man joined the class that day. (See pics of our lesson)

This park has many social events on it’s weekly calendar. On Saturday night we attended one of them which was ” Italian night “. It was a 5 course Italian dinner put on by some of the park residents. They had been cooking for several days leading up to the dinner. Once again, we felt very welcome. We were invited to sit with a group of people from Wyoming and we had a delicious dinner and good company.

The weather this week has not been quite as hot as we had hoped it would be. When we arrived last Tuesday, it was in the mid 80’s so we thought that was great. The warm temps lasted 2 more days after that but then cold weather  and very high winds blew in for the next 2 days. The wind was blowing so hard, our rig was rocking back and forth like a boat on water. Yesterday we had temps in the low 70’s and today is promising to be in the mid to high 70’s so it will be a pool day today!

Tomorrow we are leaving Mission and heading to South Padre Island which is about 60 miles away. We plan to spend 2 nights on the Island which we are really looking forward to as we have heard great things about the location.

We’ll be back on the perch with more droppings towards the end of the week so stay tuned.