Thats the best description of what happens in Mesa, AZ in January, February and March. There is so much going on! We are staying at Monte Vista Village RV Resort and the activities are endless; Tennis, Pickleball, hiking, biking, shuffleboard, swimming, softball, dancing, silversmithing, bootcamp, arobics, yoga, card making, quilting, jewelry, rock stuff, every card game you can think of, movie nights, shows, dinners, breakfasts, ice cream, happy hours, and so on, and so on!
Paul and I are not new to the resort lifestyle but we are new to this park, having visited it for events in the past we decided to give it a try for three months this winter. So far we have been to a steak fry, a pancake breakfast, happy hours, a show out in town, a magician, dancing at the Legion Hall, pinnocle, cribbage, dinner at friends, pickleball, tennis and Denise has been doing bootcamp. I am not sure why I put myself through bootcamp but it feels good afterwards until the pain sets in!
I took a class in silversmithing and made a really cute bracelet.
All by myself!
I made this from a single strand of some sort of metal! Lots of bending and I even made the jump rings from scratch! It took about 2.5 hours and was really interesting how a single strand of wire can actually end up as something I can wear.
Most activities are included in the cost of staying. The bracelet, I had to buy the metal, and we do have to pay a nominal fee for the meals! The pancake breakfast includes eggs cooked to your liking, scrambled eggs, pancakes, almond pancakes, sausage, biscuits, gravy, ham, orange juice and coffee for a whopping $3.00 per person as long as we wear our name tags. See it is just like summer camp, we have badges that say our names and where we come from that we are encouraged to wear. I forget mine most of the time! Thats ok, I am pretty good at introducing myself.
Today I played in my first league games of tennis where our park plays against other parks in the area. I played pretty well for a beginner but we did lose the match. I take the good from each situation – my serves are great and we actually won two games just from my serves, and I can scamper around the court pretty well most of the time getting the ball returned into play. So, tennis is going to be my passion while we are here; the weather is wonderful so why not.
Off to another game of tennis!