Rummikub

Tuesdays and Thursdays are card and game nights at Bentsen Palms, so after dinner we walked over to the clubhouse with our Rummikub game in hand. One table of Mexican train dominoes and one of "Hand and Foot" (a canasta variant)were already in progress. Our neighbors Gary and Mary Ann Erickson joined us for Rummikub, which they had never played. We played four hands, and each of us went out once (we didn't keep score), so everyone was satisfied with the evening's fun.

Gary and Mary Ann are Kansans and Excel owners, so we have some things in common. In other ways their lives have been very different from ours. Gary is a rancher, and Mary Ann taught second grade for years. They spend summers at their ranch in Kansas--Mary Ann says Gary will never retire.
Earlier in the day we biked over to Bentsen RGV State Park and went around the outside loop twice, for a trip of about 12 miles. We saw another peccary in the undergrowth and lots of birds and butterflies. Next time we'll take our bike lock and binoculars so we can take one of the hiking trails.