We are continuing the activities that we enjoy at the resort, and they are trying some of those activities as well. Connie is in beginner line dance class, and attended the beginner pickle ball lessons. She is also enjoying the greeting cards class. They have also gone with us to bingo, and Joe was one of the winners in card bingo. In the picture below he is showing off his winnings in nickels.
We have also played lots of indoor shuffle board, and they went with us to bean bag baseball. We had around 70 people show up, and they were divided into six teams.
Then everyone takes turns throwing bean bags at the board that has holes designated for a single, double, triple, and home run.
There is also the dreaded "out" hole. When a player lands a bean bag in the "out house," you get to hold the toilet paper "trophy" until this honor is bestowed onto the next unlucky player. In the picture below, Connie is showing off her winnings. It's not quite as much fun as holding a handful of nickels.
They are enjoying the warm weather, and having the opportunity to be outside getting exercise in the middle of winter. They've taken over 10,000 steps every day. We got some of those steps during trips to our neighborhood state park. Those old live oak trees bend to the ground and just invited us to take a sister picture.
We also got a different kind of exercise on a different trip to the park. The state park has bikes for rent, so the four of us rode all the paved loops. Connie decided this was the first time she had ridden a bike since she was a child. That was (ahem) a few years ago.
The second trip to the park also got us a close-up of a collared peccary. They were enjoying the seeds that had fallen out of the feeders at this bird blind.
This guy felt so comfortable that he laid down and flashed one of the ugliest grins we've ever seen.
We hiked most of the trails in the park, including the two-mile trail that goes closest to the Rio Grande River. On that hike we saw these curious concave indentations in the trail surface.
Mark did some research, to find out that these were dug by a fierce looking bug named an ant-lion. The ant-lion lays in wait at the bottom of the cone, hoping that an errant ant will get caught in the slanted sand trap.
Besides those ugly wildlife sightings, we have to finish up with pictures of the pride of this state park. It is headquarters of the World Birding Center, and we've always found plenty of birds when we've visited.
Cardinals and green jays are some of the most colorful birds in the park, and it was fun showing them to our guests.
Just like the birds, the weeks are flying by. We're still enjoying the weather, the activities, and guests here in the Rio Grande Valley this winter!
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