Our Thousand Trails of Texas/FMCA Rally at Lake Texoma on April 30-May 2nd was a success. Thanks to the Wagonmasters and assistants, Randle & Connie Farrar and Melvin & Helen Carlton, we enjoyed plenty of food, plenty of fun and plenty of fellowship. We ended up with 29 coaches coming in for the rally. Most of them were our members, some of them were new members and some of them were visitors. We also enjoyed having Roy Beavers come in and talk to us about his chapter. I took lots of good pictures and got too greedy and ended up loosing all my pictures. The memory card in my camera got full Saturday night after I had taken over 200 pictures, well, I was wanting a few more pictures that night and I don't know what I did trying to free some space. The next morning I tried to load my pictures and I had none, zip, nada. I was sick and I kept trying to find them somewhere but they were no where to be found. Next time I'll be satisfied with what I've got instead of being greedy and getting nothing.
We all enjoyed the Mexican Train Tournament. Tommy and myself didn't do very good.
I was even keeping score myself and we still didn't do well.
Lots of good concentration for all these young minds.
Here on the right beside Melvin is Diana Kimble, one of our new members from Nacogdoches. I retired from Lufkin ISD and I still have a daughter that lives in Lufkin, which is next door to Nacogdoches.
Here on the right is June Wimmer and her husband Ron is in front of her to the left. They joined us as visitors.
I don't know what's going on here but everybody is looking around. Could it be they are bored waiting on someone to make up their mind how they want to play?
He looks pretty suspicious, was he the culprit???
How many dominoes does Crystel have hidden over there????? She thinks no one is looking, but we all are. GOTCHA!!!!!!
Is Sam watching what Crystel is doing??? I bet you he won't tell.
Shhhhhh!!!!!
Okay Melba, are you trying to get his attention for some reason? As you can see we had the adult lodge pretty crowded and pretty quiet since everybody was trying to do their best. We had pretty high stakes going on.
Let's call it a night.
Our business meeting. I don't have any pictures except a couple that I borrow from someone.
Dinner on Saturday night.
Lined up for breakfast on Sunday morning. I got my camera back working after I'd discovered that my pictures were all gone from Friday and Saturday. What a waste of good pictures.
We had pretty good sized breakfasts.
Our new members, Ray and Liz Vils.
I just had to put this picture in here. See Charles' head. He had been bald for a while but suddenly he went to bed one night and got up with a head full of salt and pepper hair.
Doesn't he just look so handsome with his new head? Just don't take his cap off!!!
Okay, time to collect badges.
You three people on the counter, are you trying to gang up on the cook?
Our birthday girls. We had three birthday girls at the rally but, since I lost my pictures, I had to do retakes on Sunday and there's one birthday girl that is not a morning person so I didn't get her picture. The birthday girls are Helen Barnes, Crystel Walker and Beverly Wippert. Guess who sleeping beauty is????
We also had 3 anniversaries and the same thing happened here. Another sleeping beauty and her husband didn't make it for breakfast. Anniversaries were Melvin & Helen Carlton, Chuck & Sara Smith and Terry & Lynn (Cheryl) Griner. Can you guess again????
Here they are and they are still sleeping a few hours later. They're acting like they are awake with them big smiles.
Another sleepy head here. His picture was also lost so I got this that somebody took while he was trying to wake up. Tommy won the 50/50 raffle that was being raffled for Ronald McDonald. It was 50 something $$$$.
Larry & Dianna Huff won 1st place in the Mexican Train Tournament. They won a nice pegs and jokers game set that plays eight.
Jimmy & Mary Lou Bolton won a Fast Track game for 2nd place. Our own John Decker made it. Now they need to learn how to play fast track. It is lots of fun.
Smitty & Mary Helen won 3rd place which was "hard cold cash".
Lynda Herndon was a new member that joined in Columbus in March. I am so sorry but I didn't have a picture of her at that time so she was left out. Sorry Lynda. You probably hadn't noticed.
I didn't have a picture of new members, Lester & Diana Kimble, they joined towards the end of the rally. These are the Kimbles at the end of this table. I'll take some better pictures next time. Sorry!!!! Chuck is in the background in a daze.
Another new members that I didn't have pictures of are John & Flo Decker. They joined in Harlingen in February and this is the first time they've made it to one of our rallies.
New members that joined in Harlingen in February also. First time that JE & BJ Thompson have been to one of our rallies.
New members Ray & Liz Vils. They joined in March at the end of our Colorado River Rally.
We also had new members that joined our Chapter in Lake Texoma. They are Chuck & Cheryl Bobbitt. They did not make it to our rally because they were moving his mother to an apartment that weekend but we did meet them before the rally and Connie met them after the rally.
WELCOME TO ALL OUR NEW MEMBERS!!!!!! Thank you for coming to our Lake Texoma Rally. I hope you enjoyed it and glad you made it to your next destination safely. We are in Indiana at this time and will be heading to Upper Penisula Michigan by the way of Wisconsin, thru Michigan, Canada and to Maine and winding down through the eastern parts of the U. S. A.
HAPPY TRAILS TO ALL OF YOU THAT WILL BE TRAVELING!!!!!!
