ANOTHER TOURNAMENT !!

There is a tournament called Senior Olympics and it includes just about every kind of sport. Pickleball is one of them. John and Ken entered and Joyce and I decided to give it a try. Our skill level was for Wednesday. The guys were suppose to check in at 8, so we left at 5:30 am (meaning getting at 4:30). You never know what the traffic is going to be like. It wasn't too bad and we got there about 7:20. The tournament was being held in Sun City, which is west of Phoenix. I was so excited that Ken and John won a bronze medal. This was Kens first and he was so tickled. They won a bronze in the skill level 3.0

Joyce and I were suppose to start at noon and got started about 1:30. We played for the gold - silver match about 5 pm. You can imagine how much energy we had, but we got the silver and was proud of it.

We had some special friends that showed up at the tournament. Harry and Karen, Marie and Keith. We met them on the pickleball courts in TT Orlando, Florida. They had decided to explore the west after the new year and I am so glad they did. Sure was fun to see and be with them for the day.

I don't know what this picture is, and I would have to close this out and start over to see it. I meant to have Mark (of Mark and Chris) to give me a lesson on blogs as his looks so nice, but as usual didn't take time.
Maybe when we run into each other again....

ARIZONA DINNER THEATRE

This is where the group of pickleball players went for an evening of fun, besides being on the court.

Mary, John and Joyce (my doubles partner .... I know you didn't recognize w/o her visor). By george these pickleball players can really clean up and look good.

More people we play with. That is Jay, Mary's husband me and Terri. Terri is orginally from N.Carolina and the main difference between our accents is: when we are playing pb and she calls a ball out, it takes 3 syllables and when I call out it only takes 2. We have had a lot of fun mocking each other and of course no one else can understand us.

The AZ. Opry was a lot of fun. Reminded me of shows in Branson. The leader of the show was George Staerkel. He was a member of The Tokens a group in the 80's. One of their more famous songs, was the Lion Sleeps at Night. He is so talented, see all the instruments in the background? He plays them all and very well. On odd nights the meat is roast beef and even nights it is chicken. Our night was roast beef and was very good. If you can imagine we didn't get home and in bed until after 11:30! Was well worth it.