Bocce wasn't our game today!

June 7 – Surprise, Surprise!  Bill got up and went on the morning walk with the other Rally attendees!  Good for him!  That was followed by the free pancake and sausage breakfast.  I thought we’d go over together so I was dressed and ready but he brought my breakfast to me!  All we needed was syrup!

Games started at 9.  We both played Bocce, but boy is it different.  You don’t make a team, you draw a number out of a bucket and all the 1’s make a team, the 2’s and so on.  I was on Team 4 and Bill was on Team 6.  The court is grass just laid out with rope.  There are no “officials” for each court and one team member keeps the score.  The rules are even more  wacky!  Anyway, my team was 4 women, playing 4 men.  They were ahead for a while but we came back, tied, then went ahead, then tied in the end.  The winner is determined by someone throws the jack ball, and each team member throws one ball and the closest ball to the jack determines the winner.  We tied 34-34 and lost on the “throw off”.  Bummer!  The over all winning team is the team that scored the most points, so there are no brackets like we are used to.  You do get to play longer, so you get more adapted to the course but it’s just different!  Bill’s team lost but he said once he adjusted to the hillside and tree root, he did pretty good!

I forgot to show this photo when we took it.
It looks like a sheep herder wagon and
it was a volunteer at Greer's Ferry Lake
in Arkansas.

The next game was ladder ball and neither of us had ever played it so we came inside for a bit.  Later we had to go back to get yesterday’s paperwork witnessed and then dropped it all off at the post office!  One thing off the list!  We drove around a bit and then stopped at the grocery for a short list.  Bill wanted to wash the truck as he parked under a tree with a shedding problem in addition to bird poo!  He ended up dropping me off while he went for the wash.

While he was gone I got to thinking about lunch and what I could get rid of in the fridge.  I had a small amount of leftover spaghetti sauce with some Italian sausage in it.  So I took some street taco size flour tortillas and spread with the sauce, put a bit more Italian seasoning on, sliced the meatballs and put in place and covered with shredded mozzarella and baked at 450 for 10 minutes and lunch was ready!  Bill is a pizza person, me – not so much, so he enjoyed it but would have chosen pepperoni had he had the choice!

Our first mail of the summer arrived today!  The shocker was in one our local newpapers Kam sent, there was a photo we took last summer of us going on the ferry across Lake Michigan.  We sent that in to the paper in August, and it’s just now getting in.  Better Late than Never I guess! We will enjoy the reindeer summer sausage Kam sent from her and Dan’s trip to Scandinavia in May!  Yum!

Bill did a little window washing on the RV this afternoon and he made reservations for us for dinner at The Odessey in town.  It’s the highest rated on Yelp in Hastings and it’s a bit upscale and dinner was delicious. The dining room was booked so we were in the bar area.  Service was excellent.  Bill had a pasta dinner with chicken and I had what was a version of Osso Bucco. It was 2 knuckles and shorter, served over cheese grits with a side of shredded sautéed Brussels sprouts.  I licked my platter clean (and washed it down with a nice Dornfelder).  We had to pass on dessert!

It was too late to make the evening entertainment at the rally so we went home and read and relaxed.