Two More Dinners with Friends

The last few weeks we sure have been going out to eat a lot….I mean, A LOT!  Well, rack up a couple more!

Sunday we went to a delicious brunch buffet at Blue Foxx Grill at the local golf course. Later that day Don, Jim’s brother, and his lady, Debbie, asked to join them for dinner at Chili’s.  Sure, why not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This will probably be the last time together before we leave the area, so we made it festive with a couple of drinks.  I ordered a triple sample margarita and it came in a fancy holder with three small glasses with a regular, raspberry and a El Nino margarita.  Isn’t it pretty?

We had a nice dinner with great conversation….nice, nice evening with friends!

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We are beginning to have our last visits with friends and family members before we leave next week and were very happy to be invited to dinner by Nina and Greg Gillespie. 

Nina and Greg have a beautiful condo on the Cattail Golf Course. As we entered Greg was watching TV and what a TV it was.  I insulted (LOL) Greg by saying “what is that, a 70 inch TV?”  Sorry, Greg, I didn’t know they even made an 80 inch TV.  Here’s Jim standing by the TV to give you a perspective of how large it is.

The photo on the header of this blog today is the view from their back yard overlooking a cattail filled pond. We sat outside and watched the evening sky with the sun going down in the west casting a red tint on the Sangre de Cristo (blood of Christ) Mountains in the east…breathtaking!!!

While outside several flocks of geese came close by and even straight overhead.  It was awesome to see nature up close like that.

As it became cooler we went inside for a delicious dinner of potato, cauliflower and corn soup (Nina remember to give me the recipe), a chicken salad with moist banana bread and fruit for dessert.

Afterwards we played Chicken Feet, a dominoes game.  Jim and I hadn’t played Chicken Feet in at least three years….it’s popular with fulltime RVers.  It was so much fun to play it again.  We all giggled and laughed a lot.  Later we talked about RVs and the pros and cons of picking between Class A’s, fifth-wheels and Class C’s.

It was a fun night!!!! We will miss these dear friends!.

Remember, you are loved.
Read the story behind the saying HERE

 

Jim’s 45th Alamosa High School Reunion

Much of this blog post is for the benefit of present and former residents of Alamosa who know some of those photographed.  For our other blog readers, patience!

September 28-29th we celebrated Jim’s 45th high school reunion. Yes, we drove there in Jim’s pride and joy, the ‘64 El Camino.

                    

The weekend started off Friday with a tour of

Ortega Middle School, which was Jim’s high school back in the day….in fact, Class of 1967 was only the second class to graduate from that building.

The building custodians were waiting for us and were so good to open up rooms for these old students to check out.  Interestingly enough, many of the men wanted to go into the principal’s office------since they spent so much time in there when students, they said.

There was a surprise waiting in the Nell Roger’s Library (she was a friend and a wonderful, fun-loving lady).

           

Inside was the class’s history teacher, Leonard King, and Betty Stevens, school counselor, both of them looking great after 45 years!

There was much laughter walking the halls and passing classrooms with comments like, “remember when we ________ in the chemistry lab that day?” and “damn, I hated being in that classroom”!

A lot of the folks in attendance must have been in a lot of the plays, choir and band, because the band room and auditorium were very popular places to visit. Hey, Beth (our daughter), remember all the hours you spent in this room blowing your sax.

Another place everyone wanted to see  was the gym…..and was the moose head still up on the wall???  Oh, yes, it still was…top right side of the wall. (AHS is known as the Mean Moose in sports.)

After the tour we all gathered at Ramada’s Inn of the Rio Grande out east of town for a little socializing.

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Saturday evening we went back to Inn of the Rio Grande for a banquet.  We were so happy they kept things simple without a lot of programmed events, a simple greeting, reading of departed classmates, acknowledging veterans in the class and a fun trivia game.  Bill Clark won for coming the farthest – Maryland; four couples married classmates and which of them got married first; and Jim and I won for having the most great-grandchildren…..we have a great-granddaughter and another one on the way. 

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There were little placards on all the tables with names of their teachers and others with names of hangouts and stores in town, many of which no longer exist, like A & H Bootery, Small Fry’s, Goal Post, Nine Nine and Ace Inn. Lots of memories spoken.

There was a very nice buffet dinner and lots of time to visit and get reacquainted.  Later on they had a DJ playing music from the 60s with a few people dancing to the likes of “Unchained Melody”, “Sherry” and “Louie Louie”.

I only knew three or four people, there but I enjoyed myself, laughing at the retelling of the antics of these mischievous 63 year olds LOL!!!  For a few hours everyone was 18 years old again and seeing all their friends through 18 year old eyes.  It was very wonderful.

Everyone is looking forward to the 50th reunion, God willing.

Remember, you are loved.
Read the story behind the saying HERE

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