Balloons/Shuffling/Christmas Lights and Good News

Yuma also has a balloon Festival. Not on the scale of Albuquerque but a nice up close one. I had no idea we could get so close th the activates. So I only too my big lens.

This is the "Glow" part of the show. The had fourteen or fifteen balloons all lit up at the same time.

Because I only had the one lens I couldn't get a panoramic shot.

This of course isn't a balloon but it was lit up real well.

This shows how close you could get to the action.

These are two of the eighteen shuffle board courts we have at "Sun Vista RV"

They are smooth as glass and cleaned every morning to get them ready for play.

Here my team mate is trying to get her "disk" (not Puck) in scoring area. This is very difficult as the glass surface is covered with grains of wax and it takes very little effort to send the disk off the end of the court.

The "Eskimo in black is Mary. It was in the low 50's on the morning of this competition. We all nearly froze.

We decorated the house for Christmas with lights around the front deck.

We also put lights on the Grapefruit tree. (that will take some getting used too)

The view from the street. Mary wouldn't let me get on a ladder or roof to put lights on the house.

This is the good news! Mary has consented to be my wife. We will be married on March 1st. At her home here in Yuma. We will repeat our vows in Oregon when we get there in the spring.