Exercise!

I started out this morning with aerobic exercises for 45 minutes at the clubhouse. They're using a video series called Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone, and the room was full. There were even three or four men among all the women. My muscles all said, "Exercise? What's this???" I'm sure it will get easier . . .


The weather has definitely warmed up, but the yellow flowering bushes that we were so glad to see in the flower bed by our site are half-dead because of the frost a couple of nights ago. Some of the lower branches still have green leaves and flowers, and we're hoping some of the upper part will revive, but so far they look pretty dead.

After lunch we went out to the post office to mail a Christmas package and the grocery store for milk. We stopped at Foy's Supermarket, a local store that caters to the Hispanic population and often has good deals on produce. I got ten pounds of oranges for $3.99.

We biked over to the Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park, which is also the World Birding Center Headquarters, where we saw some of the familiar birds from our last visit here, like the Great Kiskadee. Entry to the park is included with our site rental, but we have to stop by Guest Services and pick up a pass and then go to the Visitor Center to get wristbands. That's a new program this year, so the park will have a better count on visitors.

Tomorrow we'll dance in the morning to Joe Saltel. We're looking forward to seeing our friends Hardy and Judy, who have been on a cruise to Central America, as well as some of our other dancing friends.