Bike Ride and Weenie Roast

The blue sky and sunshine lured lots of bicyclists out today. Some cyclists from Michigan staying at Bentsen Grove stopped by on their way through the park to chat. Our friends Bob and Pat stopped by. Third time's a charm: they've been to this park twice before looking for us. We're glad they finally found us. They looked sharp in their matching new blue helmets.

We joined Gary and Mary Ann and Jim and Rita for a ride through the state park. Jim and Rita have been camped in our old spot (#515) but they will go back to Houston tomorrow. We saw lots of birds, but not the rare Blue Bunting that had been spotted the last couple of days at the Kiskadee blind. In addition to Chachalakas, Green Jays, Kiskadees, Cardinals, Golden Fronted Woodpecker, doves, and lots of water birds, I saw a Red-Winged Blackbird.

When we got back from the bike ride, Mary Ann suggested that we have a weenie roast, which we've been trying to have for a month. I made a quickie three-bean salad, and we brought baked Doritos, Rita made a cucumber and onion salad and brought pineapple, and Mary Ann supplied the weenies, buns and flour tortillas to wrap weenies. Afterwards some of us roasted marshmallows and made s'mores.

When we got home Ken turned on the TV and happened on the movie October Sky, the story of Homer Hickam and the other Rocket Boys of Coalwood, West Virginia. We both read the book a couple of months ago.

This morning I went to the exercise class for an hour. We skipped the Jerry Story dance so that Ken's back could rest another day.