Sunday, he very nice but just a little cool to go swimming. Anyway, we have a leak in one tire and the truck must be repaired. The morning is quiet because Paul will install the spare tire and I have fun on the computer, a Christmas ornament beading and making order in my beads, I also make cookies sawdust (biscuits health Cranberry) for Paul. In the afternoon we go to Wal-Mart to repair the tire. They can not do anything because it's already made a repair that causes the problem, anyway, we intend to change four tires in a few months. Paul Rubber purchased a product that is injected into the tire, which covers the inside, we'll see if it will work. After dinner, we watch Radio-Canada, Paul is disappointed because her favorite show (Everybody talking) is not on air.
Monday, Paul will work on its projects wood shop in the morning I'm going to meet the quilters to see what happens this year. There are still so many ladies and the atmosphere is good. Dan in the afternoon, we go a little pool, a little too windy for me but Paul is sunbathing and swimming. Paul meets Gerry talking to him stabilizers to prevent the caravan to vibrate when you walk in, we'll probably go buy them. We take this opportunity to ask him to take our picture beneath a tree near the pool, we use it to make a Christmas greeting card.
We'll do a little shopping and stop us from paying Dennis who came to set the battery charging system of the caravan, we had not yet paid, he asked $ 20 for his work .... not travel because he lives here in the park. I cook the beef tongue with spicy red sauce that Paul is so fond, that's what we eat for supper. In the evening, Paul enjoys with a picture and send the greeting card.
Tuesday, he sold much and hurt, they drop and crush the soil just behind us on the pier, still try to sit outside to play with the ball beaded Christmas I returned covered with dust, they have beautiful water it from time to time, it does nothing. I finished beading the ball, I'm masochistic,
I chose to do with the fringes of various reasons and once on the other I forget the suit and I have to copy the last made with the same reason it's so ... stupid! Paul in turn brings my new cutting board, she is gorgeous in the afternoon, he returned to the wood shop to continue his other projects and was told to be careful because a species of wood (wood from a beautiful purple) he used is highly toxic, it should not be used for projects
who have contact with food, shit ... .. We'll eat pizza at Pizza Hut and back, a neighbor came to bring me a box, they delivered the books purchased from Amazon at a different address, I ordered more books and beads, they hope others will not Errors of this kind, a chance that people here are honest. Paul did some tests and the truck still does not charge the batteries, the gentleman who repairs caravans returns and diagnostics there is a problem with another room located inside the caravan, it will replace, it will return with the new play tomorrow.
Wednesday, there is fog in the morning but quickly made it a beautiful warm and sunny. Paul returns to the wood shop to continue working on its cache winemaking and storage space for pencils, glasses placed on each side of the TV where we put our computers. I'll do line dancing to keep me in shape and have fun too, of course. Several of these ladies are the same as last year and they are nice, there are cons by a lady (I'm being generous) who complains when you speak French, she says she is in the U.S. that is English speaking countries, it also criticizes the Mexicans who speak English, I told him that there are courses that give and that I took to understand English ... I do not know if she got it, it did not look very bright, Paul told me that the same phenomenon is present in the wood shop ... that these Americans are curious, they want to listen to our conversations even if we do not talk to them. I go back to the caravan to await books and beads, I enjoy making earrings (the first pair that I do) that are tiny Christmas tree, I learn a new technique at the same time. The repairman comes caravan and installs the defective part ($ 25 including time) Paul did tests and everything works great!
Thursday it was still sunny but I must remain quietly in the caravan because we must make the delivery of my order of beads and books. Both shipments arrived at ten minute intervals at lunchtime (I could go in watercolor the morning, shame ...). I spent the afternoon checking the command to separate the items and make money because we are three bills to be controlled to take advantage of group discounts. As I expected, there are surprises good and bad, it's inevitable when you buy from a catalog and we have no reference for size and color. Paul in turn spends the day in wood shop, he is more satisfied with the results of its work today, plans are proceeding well. The night I want to go out and we will eat at Golden Corral to try, not very good idea it's a buffet (we see everywhere in the south) of the big food at will, nothing very attractive, very fried, we do not we raise the night to go home for lunch.
Friday, Christmas Eve, as it's weird to spend the holidays here, the sun shines, it's 30C, one must remember that it is the holidays, even all the decorations do not succeed We set the mood, we realize that the spirit of Christmas is found mainly in our heart and without those we love close to us, this is not the same thing. Paul is pitiful, no wood shop, we take a walk in the park and Paul takes pictures. This morning, I wash and I met a lady called Carolyn who wants to know more about my Kindle, it also wants to learn how to make beaded heads greenhouses, we'll meet again to make sure crafts. In the evening, Esther and Luis come have a drink, Luis has developed an allergy to animals, her legs turn red if the dogs affect them, we must keep away from him.
Saturday is Christmas and it's cool. Paul gets up at 5: 30AM to be able to see the children develop their gifts for Christian Skype, they do so 6am our time, he had already talked to her grandchildren in New Zealand yesterday because yesterday was Christmas for them (the little asked if Father Christmas had left gifts for him here under our tree ...) I leave early c
ar I go to Mary Ann and we going to Mexico with her daughter. We stop at Red Snapper a little Mexican restaurant for breakfast (huevos rancheros for me) and we go to primary school for the children's party. Hundreds of volunteers from Texas to prepare the food and gifts to distribute to poor children on Christmas morning,
they are lining up around the school that is built like the old missions (concrete structures forming a square with only two entries.
We begin the presentation of gifts at 9: 30am and finish around noon, the little ones are not difficult and gladly accept what they offer, I am assigned to toys for boys, we provide toys, new or used in good condition. Often the mothers with the youngest, they are not wealthy and it is obvious to spend hours in the cold (it was almost exceptionally 0C) and receive a little food and little gifts.
Mary Ann told me that at first they offered hot dogs to children, which they did not know threw him bread and only eat the sausage, they now coat the sausage in a tortilla. There were also several children broke the pinata with pleasure. I'll be back with Paul, who came to join me because he wanted to take pictures and
been assigned to give stuffed animals to children (he enjoyed more than them). We ate lunch at the Christmas hall of the park, we sat down with cool people we met last year. The food is ok but the company is very nice. The night after the hearty lunch taken at 2pm, I did not need to make for dinner because we were not hungry, it So a quiet evening.
Sunday, the little quiet day after Christmas. I lazy in the morning, I play with my beads, Paul fiddling on his PC and it's cold. We take a walk with dogs and in the afternoon we do a little grocery store because there is more meat for dinner, you do not want to go to the restaurant s saw our two past experiences, we buy two huge chops pig and I found that singing dolls are adorable, Pearl had bought one for his grandson, son and I wanted to keep one at home that I leave when there are children who come (which means: I want to play with the doll). Carolina, the neighbor just learn to make a beaded headband and she gives patrons bracelets she received when she took classes here. Paul and I savor our chops with great pleasure. 
Monday, very windy and cold, people in the park are from the south to dress like a snowstorm, mittens and toques. I go to the meeting on the morning of quilting Mary Ann and I stop in the morning to offer a small necklace that I made to her daughter that she had paid for my breakfast on Christmas Day, she likes bright colors, the collar is orange and lime. I'm going to buy wood with Paul (he has finished using the wood he bought (apart from the exotic wood purchased from Langevin). We stop at Whataburger for lunch and return quietly home. Just before supper I'll try a session of Zumba, which is a class of Latin dance moves, the basic steps of salsa, cumbia merenge and, unfortunately, I'm bored because I know the steps and it gives me a nostalgic evening Latin dance that I have known twenty years ago, I will not return. The night I finished a bracelet patterns Carolyn, it's nice, it is reversible. 
Tuesday he does not really nice it's cold, windy and raining (a little). Paul will work in wood shop and on the way, always impetuous as he is, and finds himself slipping into the background, sprained thumb and flayed, tattered pants and knee seriously messed up, he turned a corner too fast on wet roads. I'm going to line dancing and I found some friends in Quebec. The exercise stretch my, these sessions are fun by working memory that is hard. In the afternoon, Paul returns to play with his friends and the two Dianas come here to make bracelets, one of them has ever done and I think she may become addicted like me. We have dinner at home and spend the evening at home, I finished another bracelet using a new model that gave me Diana. 
Wednesday It's still gray morning, but warmer. I'm going to line dancing and Paul returned to play with wood. In the afternoon, the two Dianas make bracelets come with me and I change the closure of one I did yesterday, I had a more appropriate in shades of copper. I receive my catalog of Fire Mountain Gems, it is as thick as a telephone directory, I'll enjoy myself to see it. We'll have dinner with Diana and Gerry and Diane and Jacques, we return to our favorite restaurant last year, Arturos. Our friends did not know him and love the ambiance and food, they already plan to come back and decide what they will eat. 
Thursday it is warmer but windy (this is normal in Texas). Paul leave early for the wood shop, it always amuses them and begins to be part of the gang of guys. I'm going to my first real session of watercolor, I have my papers, paints etc.. There is a small formation that gives the technique to paint the birch, I try my hand, I do not win awards, but Paul said you painted birch .... I consider myself successful. After lunch, Paul returns to the wood shop, Caroline comes and goes for a ride with the big catalog of Fire Mountain, she is amazed by the models on display jewelry in it, it opens up many new horizons. We go shopping, buy a small turkey, it's been years since I have not cooked. This will be our dinner Tomorrow night, I thought there would at Christmas dinner, but to my great disappointment, Americans eat Christmas ham and turkey at Thanksgiving. We come back here and after the supper meal Gerry and Diane come for a ride, she wants to finish his little bracelet and put a clip to bring it tomorrow night as they go to the dance's Eve New Year's Day. 
Friday, the day of the year, it is hot and since I cook (turkey's traditional New Year's Day) we need the air conditioners from the windows open because not enough. After lunch, we will spend some time at the pool because it is very nice. In return, I prepare a carrot soup for tonight. In an unguarded moment I dirty with the wrong side of the salt (the one normally used for measuring large quantities) and I sprinkled a ton of salt in the soup, even recovering the salt is too salty. Paul will have a look in the nearby town to fetch some potatoes and carrots, I can dilute the salt, but now I'm having soup for years. Claudette and we like to spend Luis good year and Carolyn and Tom come to supper, she makes a good cheesecake and we spend a wonderful evening. No question of waiting until midnight, they leave ver 9: 30 and we pick up a bit and go to bed. All the locals are not in bed as early as we, the backfire pm to 11:45 p.m. start, there are fireworks until a little past midnight, many Mexicans love these lights. 
Saturday, New Year's Day, it's nice and warm enough but it's quiet here, we decided to go shopping, Paul needs hardware to work wood and I want to go buy storage boxes for my pearls as I found last year in Mc Allen. We leave before lunch and it is Hobby Lobby and Harbour Freight, of course we stop at Pizza Hut for lunch, we find what we seek even filters for drinking water from the trailer at Camping World. We return to camp and quietly take a walk with the dogs to stretch their legs. People here have already removed their Christmas decorations, it was pretty bad because all these lights at night. I saw a flock of parrots for the first time today, I wondered if they were in the park this year, they fly high and often moving, it's almost impossible to take pictures. 
