We did get out to walk this morning but it was very short, only .4 of a mile, or one time around, inside of our park.
We have plans for lunch today with Dennis and Pam. We've heard about several area establishments that make these gigantic burgers - and one they had mentioned to us was Tower Burgers. We asked them a day or so ago if they would like to go with us to eat there. They did and suggested we wait until after the lunch hour to go since it gets very busy. Dean drove today and we picked them up about 12:30 to head that way.
There was little parking available when we arrived sometime after 1:00 - but we managed to find a place for "Max - our truck". When we walked in there was still quite a long line waiting to order and all of the tables were full. As we stood there looking around, two guys got up to leave right by the door, so the guys grabbed the table while Pam and I went up to order.
Dean wanted the tower burger (1/2# burger, fried egg (over easy); onion strings (LOTS of them - very thin and crispy); tower sauce, cheddar cheese and LTPO - Lettuce, Tomato, Pickle & Onion - I asked them to leave the pickles off as he does not care for them on his burgers.
I chose the Bleu Buffalo (1/2# burger, bacon, avocado, original wing sauce; bleu cheese, LTPO (without the onions). It typically has caramelized onions on it but I asked they put them on the side as I'm not real fond of onions - and I gave them to Dean.
I ordered Dean a combo which was to include his drink and a basket of onion strings, but when they brought it there were no onion strings. Looking at the receipt - she did not charge for a combo. Dennis shared a few of his with us, but I'm really glad now we did not get a full order because there was no way we could have ate them. Since we did not get the onion strings, we both ate every bite of our burgers. That means little or no dinner for us tonight!
Oh my goodness, these burgers were excellent!
We waddled out, full and satisfied, heading to Max! As we started the return trip home we made a stop at a nearby RV Park where one of our Escapee members (Pete) stays for the winter. We are having a luncheon on Tuesday at Gatti's. I left a phone message for our friend but I have not heard from him, so we wanted to make sure he knew about the luncheon. We drove by his motorhome. His truck was parked at his site. A couple of neighbors were walking by. They told us Pete was up at the activity building playing cards. We continued through the park and stopped at the activity building. We walked in to find a group of men playing cards - about 7 of them. As we walked toward the table, the guys looked up to see who it was, and Pete just kept staring at us until he finally realized who we were. We made sure he knew about our Tuesday luncheon and then we let him return to his card game before working our way back to Dennis and Pam's park.
The couple that live across the street from Dennis and Pam recently sold their home in the park to Dennis and Pam. The park is having a park wide garage sale next week. The couple have three bicycles they are going to sell. We walked over to see if we could look at them. Pam introduced us and explained we were interested in their bicycles. The couple was very nice. They asked if we would like to take a tour of the home and of course we said yes. I am so happy for Dennis and Pam. Such a cute house with lots of room, and it comes with all of the furnishings. After our tour of the house, they took us to the garage where the bicycles were. They told us they had not even decided on prices yet, so they'd get back with us on that.
We visited with Dennis and Pam at their site for awhile. On our first visit there, Pam showed me a beautiful poinsettia the neighbor behind them had planted in their backyard. I wish I had taken a picture of it that day because it was just gorgeous and very full. Since then the weather has taken a toll on it, but it is still not like any poinsettia I've ever seen.
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| Poinsettia is the backyard of Pam and Dennis' neighbor. Pam asked her where she got the plant, and she had just taken a piece from a regular poinsettia and planted it here. It was only about a year old. WOW! |
We left to run a couple of errands before heading home. Sunday the Heartland group is having a Super Bowl party. I'm not a fan of football, but the get together means really good food and that I am a fan of!
I've been wanting to make a cheesecake in my Instapot, so I made sure I had all of those ingredients. I also plan to make spinach artichoke dip and I needed a couple of items for that. Once we made our trip to Walmart, we also stopped and topped off the diesel in Max. It's the first time we've purchased fuel since we arrived in Mission.
Later I walked up to the office to pay our electric bill - $69.44 and that was for 27 days. Since this is the first time we've ever paid an electric bill dedicated for Bentley's use only I wasn't sure if this was high or not. I can say we've run the electric fireplace and a small electric heater quite often due to the cooler weather here over the past several weeks. We only run the furnace (propane) when the temperatures dip really low to keep the underbelly from freezing. Since then, we have talked to other RVer's and we've determined ours was pretty reasonable. I don't remember that anyone had one any lower than ours.
Pam emailed me later with prices for two of the bicycles. The couple had one bicycle with a motor on it. While we were there, they mentioned someone had already asked about it and they would check to see if they wanted it or not. We will go over tomorrow and try them out and decide if we want to purchase them or not.
We settled in for the rest of the evening, me working on the blog and Dean watching TV.
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