Losers once again....

September 14 – Our last day at the rally!  I will say everyone has been very nice, welcoming and friendly.  The rally, however, is not nearly as much fun as others we have attended.  There are only 52 rigs here and they don’t have a lot of activities.  There was entertainment only one night, which is fine as a lot of the entertainment we get in Florida we would rather be home watching TV.

After breakfast this morning we went over and checked the Silent Auction items as we had

Bill on third after his triple!!

bids in on 4.  We made the adjustments we needed to make and there was no one in the hall doing anything so we came home.  We signed up for Bean Bag Baseball at 1:00 so after quick lunch we headed over and found our team.  Bill played great, 3 for 4 with a home run, a triple and a double!  I did not fair as well, as I was 2 for 4 with a triple and a single.  I was very happy as the first 2 at bats I was horrible.  We ended up getting hammered 11-4!  After the game we were told that Chapter is always good at Bean Bag Baseball!

It was getting time for the Silent Auction to end at 2, so we went in and adjusted our bids AGAIN.  I was trying to score on 2 different sets of hummingbird feeders and one set had gotten a bit high and the other set the lady bidding against me was there waiting.  I had the bid and she went up .50 so when she was occupied chatting with her back to me during the last 2 minutes of the bidding, I went up and outbid her.  In the end, we won all 3 things that we wanted and the lady had the nerve to say I had placed my bid after the deadline!  The timekeeper was standing there when I placed it and I did not cheat, I was just sneaky!  I told her I had done no such thing and I paid the $30 that we owed for my 2 bird feeders, a pair of bag chairs and Bill’s car wash sprayer with a soap canister on it!  We didn’t need the chairs but for $5 for the pair I thought they would be handy to have.

Once we put our loot away, we checked out where the dump station was for in the morning before we took a ride to Wal-mart.  It’s on the outside of the fairgrounds and very easy to get to. 

I was hoping Wal-mart had a decent souvenir section at the local store, but they did not.  I did get a couple of post cards and picked up some fresh corn for tomorrow night’s dinner and Bill got Snapple and bananas.

Tonight was the banquet, closing ceremony and final raffle drawings.  First we went to the closing ceremony and it was nice.  There were a couple of raffles but we didn’t win.  Dinner was to be a 6 so we went ahead in and were invited to sit with some nice folks.  The meal was catered and we had a choice of chicken or beef with sides of scalloped potatoes, baby carrots, cole slaw and 2 kinds of cake for dessert.  We provided our own beverages and table service.  The food was good and there was plenty to go around.

After dinner there were drawings for 2 big baskets of goodies that we bought tickets for, however, as is normal we did not win.  Then we did not win the table decoration or any of the door prizes. Still it was a nice evening with nice folks.

They were playing card games after or watching the Boise – Portland State game so we came back to the RV and filled the DEF tank and Bill put away our water hose.  I packed up some things inside so we hope to make a quick getaway in the morning.  We have about 325 miles tomorrow so want to get a decent start.  Only one city to go through and that is Twin Falls which should not be bad.

Time to put Dell away after posting this and reading for a while!