Another Complusory Party

I'm sure most you: the reades, r realized that my last Blog which was dated 10 and 11 Feb should have read March. I'm sure that mistake will not radically change anyone's life but we will write it off as a " Senior Moment ".

12 March: Today our park scheduled a Cookout. The definite of a CookOut is that you bring your steak or whatever you want to Bar-B-Q and for 2.00 a person , the Park supplies the Bake potatoe, a Bread stick and desert. However, the Bar-B-Q's are not gas but Bricgettes so the "Fire Starters" need time to get the coals hot so that calls for a Happy Hour. Since the Cookout starts at 5 PM , the Happy Hour in the Rec Hall starts at 4 PM. Most, if not all bring your choice of refreshment ( and I don't mean Diet Coke ) and we usually sit with friends which has been previously organized by Carroll. We had 16 at our table and by co-incident everyone was Cdn. It seems funny how only 8 of us plan to sit together but as the other Cdns walked thru the door they spotted us and joined in.
Now, there were 280 attendees, so everyone could not Bar-B-Q at once so the only fair thing to do was number the table and draw table numbers from a hat. This was not the first " Kick at the Cat" so to speak as all parties are done this way but I was amazed, as were others, that within 25 mins all 280 steaks were Bar-B-Q . One other noticeable factor was how the noise level was reduced by about 90 % from the Happy Hour chatter. Even Seniors can't talk with their mouth full of food. Another comical feature is that we Party Goers had to clear the Hall by 6:30 as the Card Player where moving in and you better not be sitting there unless you are a card player. Oh well... as I said many times before, Seniors are just Older kids. Pat and Henry enjoyed the outing as they got to swap stories with folks from different parts of Canada.