Repair time

We had two HitchHikers with brake problems.  Here's Mike (in the shadow under his HH) and Don repairing a broken wire to one of his brakes.  On the other side of the park there was another crew working on Ron & Roberta's HH with a missing hydraulic line to one brake.  Wonder how long he was without trailer brakes?  Both were successfully repaired so we decided to go to Classic Burger for lunch.

We put Don to work with a game of F350 vs F450 tug of war.

Then it seems Mel's F450 decided to remain in reverse, so it was taken to the Ford dealer a couple blocks away.  Less than an hour later he was back on the road.  We were at the Ford dealer earlier that morning getting three minor issues repaired under warranty.  

Camp Verde

Even though the rally has ended many are sticking around a few more days.  Here's the guys happy hour, the ladies were circled behind the trailer.

One afternoon 20 of us  went to Camp Verde for a very nice lunch.  This is the site where in 1857 the local US Army post experimented with camels.   

Every class has a clown.

Greening up, bluebonnets, bloody maries, & BBQ dinner

As you can see in these pictures the rain and warm sunshine lately has been making the leaves pop out.

Here's some of the local bluebonnets.

One afternoon someone suggested a bloody mary party, everyone agreed!

On the last night we had a catered BBQ dinner and it was pretty good!

As you can see some of the old farts have trouble getting away from their smart phones just like their grand kids.

Here's Stan & Connie who put the rally together.  At the white elephant gift exchange Ron and Roberta ended up with our gift and we ended up with theirs!

Clayton & Pat and Pacific beach reenactment

On Thursday Clayton & Pat arrived for three nights.  After they set up and we visited we played poker until 10 pm......which we did all three nights.  Friday we took them to Fredericksburg to eat at a German restaurant, it was OK but we have never found a German restaurant that comes close to Leighthousers was in Saline.  We then went to Luckenbach fora beer and let them check it out before riding around the hill country and returning to the campground. Saturday was a day of rest and doing odds and ends here at the campground before they left Sunday morning.
Sunday the rally group went to Alamo Springs Cafe for a burger but Judy and I skipped that.  We met the group in Fredericksburg at the Pacific War Museum for a WWII reenactment of the Marines beach landing on Tarawa.  The first hour and a quarter was about history and Japaneses background then descriptions and demonstrations of many of the weapons used by the Marines and Japanese.

Father & son reenacting Japaneses soldiers.

Rifle demo.

Carbine demo.

Thompson sub machine gun demo.

BAR, British Automatic Rifle, demo.  This old guy really looked, sounded and acted the part of an old no nonsense soldier.

Machine gun team.

Shotgun for close in combat.

50 caliber machine gun

Flame thrower.

Following all the history then weapon descriptions and demos, which were very interesting, came the battle reenactment which lasted less than ten minutes with LOTS and LOTS of intense shooting, explosions and activity.  We were provided ear plugs.

Here's a view from the stands after the reenactment.

Yup, medics were there just in case.  Judy and I along with the rest of the rally folks there really enjoyed the entire program.  Next year the museum is spending $8M to remove the beachhead and replace it with the mountains of Okinawa for a new reenactment.

Karaoke

We are just sitting back relaxing with our RV friends.  After happy hour I stopped by to checkout the karaoke which was very entertaining.

Hope you had a blessed Easter

We started the day by going to a local Lutheran church.  I don't go as often  as Judy but today was a very interesting and outstanding service.  The music was very good and the pastor was outstanding.  After he welcomes everyone (church was full) he held up a notebook and filmed the entire congregation for half a minute, then said he was sending it to his mother to prove he can fill the church.  His sermon was great, I love a good sense of humor.  The final service song was Celebration, during the singing about 100 colorful balloons were being hit and batted around in the air by the congregation.

At 3 pm we had a potluck here at the campground with 24 in attendance.  It was very good too.  Stan & Connie and Bill & Sandy have arrived.  

         

Guys day out

The ladies all left at 11 am for lunch and a shopping and stuff so the guys went out too.  Lunch.....

Then we went to local festival to checkout the car show..........

It's a diesel hot rod!

I liked this one but wouldn't be able to get in or out.

Denny was checking out this 57 Chevy.

This jewel needs a little work, wonder if there's an engine under the hood?

I liked this old pickup too.