MX flea Market

On Sunday we went to the Mexican flea Market. This flea market is located just outside Yuma city limits ( not in MX ) at the  old " Dog Track ".  The main customers are the "Latinos" who are from Yuma or  who live in the Yuma area,  of which there are many. All the other Flea markets ( 3 or 4 of them ) in Yuma all sell new stuff but the Mx Market sells a lot ( and I mean a lot )  of " Garage"  sale  items , mostly used and abused. However, they also sell new but cheap items like sox, underwear, unlimited clothes, beer and many vendors selling a MX menu. We usually have a bacon wrap hotdog and hope we can make it to the car without having a heart attack.


I'm not sure why us Snowbirds go there because it seems that we never  buy much. I guess it is like " Niagara Falls " you just have to see it for yourself. Actually, Carroll bought a few coralle  plates to bring our supply up to 8 of each size. After spending about 3 hours checking out each vendors " stuff "  we  called it a day.


On Monday it is RACE Day. The first Monday of each month is Horse Races followed by a Steak Dinner. Call to the Post is 2:45 and the Recreation hall is always a near capacity of a very enthusiastic crowd. The ticket go on sale 2 weeks before  race day but they are usually gone within an hour. The cost is 12. 00 per person and the steaks are huge. There are 6 horses in the race and they are moved by throwing dice ( one die for the horse number and one for the number of spaces to move). There are two jockeys so to speak. One to count out the spaces to move on the floor and one to move the horse.
The betting is limited to betting on 2 horse per customer , per race and each bet cost 25 cents. Therefore a couple is limited to 1.00 per race and there are 8 races so the most you can lose is  8  bucks. We lost a dollar. It is a BYOB and it is amazing how many beer you can consume when you are watching these races.


After the last race they hand out the steaks and it is a " Burn your own steak" style mean  however the Bar-B-Qs are already hot. The meal comes with bake potato and the salads. We had 4 couples at our table and one couple, Barb and Dick invited us over for coffee and desert to close out the night. cheers