CHRISTMAS POTLUCK DINNER AT TT WILDERNESS LAKES!

Christmas Day - Thousand Trails Wilderness Lakes sponsored a Christmas Buffet Dinner at Noon today!  They provided Turkey and Ham and attendees brought the side dishes.  The price was certainly right!!  It was FREE!!  And plentiful.  And delicious!

I have a Spinach Salad that I make that is pretty good.  Today I decided to add red pepper strips and made it into a CHRISTMAS SALAD!!  What a good idea, Faye!!  HA HA  That was our contribution to Christmas dinner!!

Mark and Laurie, Pickleball players, joined us; or we joined them at the Potluck!!  It was a lot of fun!!

Merry Christmas, Everybody!!

VISIT WITH RUSSELL AND JACOB AND THE HOBBIT!!

Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve we drove 75 miles down to Chula Vista to spend some time with Ken's Grandsons, Russell, almost 18, and Jacob, already 11.  Russell just received recognition as Number One Defensive Linesman at Hill Top High School at this year's Football Banquet!  Jacob is looking forward to going to Middle School next year!  They are two good looking boys!

We took them to see The Hobbit!  It was good but had a lot, a lot, a lot of talking!!  Hope the boys enjoyed it!!

Merry Christmas, Guys!!

STUFFED SHELLS WITH PAM AND WALT

Dec. 23 - Pam was experimenting with another dish.  Shells stuffed with cheese and ground Italian sausage!!  They invited us over to share dinner with them!!

Here are the Shells, broccoli, and my contribution - a spinach salad! UUMMMMMM!

The four of us enjoying dinner!  Faye, Walt, Pam and Ken!

Pam topped the evening with delicious cheese cake and some of her special Almond Rocha!!

Thanks a lot Pam and Walt!  That was so much fun!  And delicious!!

KEN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY!!

Dec. 14 - We returned from our sudden trip to Richmond, VA in the middle of the night on Wednesday, Dec. 12.  The next day we went to Temecula Valley RV Service to finish up having a new awning installed where the previous awning had ripped away in the wind.  After the repair, we checked in at TT Wilderness Lakes for two weeks.

On Friday, Dec. 14, Ken turned 80 years old!!!  We went to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate!

This time we ordered their Rib Eye Steak, baked potato and salad.  I'm showing this picture so you can see how large the potatoes are!  In fact, we each took half of our potato home.  Ken made the most awesome hash browns ever!!

After we had finished our dinner, the waitresses brought Ken a serving of ice cream with chocolate syrup.  But he had to work for his ice cream!!  They made him ride the birthday saddle while everyone in the restaurant, Ken included, yelled YaHoo!!!

When we left the restaurant, Ken took us on our own Tacky Lights Tour!

HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY, KEN!!