Well today it is official---I am 65 years old!!! Who would have thought it would come so soon! Oh well I'm very lucky to have my health and able to enjoy life!
I went outside around 8:15 and Wanda came over and asked if I had seen my birthday sign. I walked around the front of the motor home and saw this huge beautiful sign attached to the front with 'Happy 65th Birthday Carol'. I asked her if she put it there and she said no so I immediately knew it had to be Jan and Judy, my dear Canadian Friends, who are onery as hell!
We got all of our junk together to leave and Dan came outside and I asked him one last time if he felt ok about us going to Mexico. He assured me he was fine with it soWanda and I left around 8:30. We parked and walk across the border and started shopping for some things she wanted to buy for their family. I laughed so hard at her because she was really driving some hard deals with the vendors. She ended up buying all of her items for her named price but not without a lot of 'bickering' back and forth. I stopped and said hello to Luis, who is the man I have bought several stained glass pieces from over the years. He is such a nice man!
We walked to the alley area where they have many more items and Wanda found an iron piece for the yard that she wanted for her daughter-in-law. She argued with the lady on the price until I thought they were going to pitch her out the door. At first the lady was going to spray it with an outdoor varnish and pack it for taking home. By the time she left, the lady was so frustrated with Wanda that she basically threw it in a big trash bag and sent her on her way. I was so entertained by Wanda and her bargaining, it made the day. We then went over to El Gourmet to have some drinks and listen to PePe play. It was only 10:30am and they cannot sell liquor until 11:00 so we ordered a couple of sodas until we could get our drinks. I assumed we would stay an hour or so and then head home as I thought Wanda would want to get home early. We ended up staying till almost 2:00 and she was telling everyone it was my birthday and I had several drinks bought by fellow customers. I had a lot of beer again but we had such a fun time listening to the music and we danced some with Brenda, the waitress and then another old guy kept asking us to dance. His wife was sitting at the table laughing at us all.
Wanda bought me a CD of PePe and had him sign it for my birthday. She later had him sign Happy Birthday and he followed that with 'Sweet Caroline', one of my very favorite songs.
We went to border and the line was very short. It only took us about 20 minutes to get across and we were home by 3:00. When we got home Dan and Larry were on the patio drinking beer so of course, I drank beer too! Wanda had a couple of mixed drinks and we put the CD of PePe on and it was surprisingly a very good CD.
Ken walked over and drank beer with all of us for awhile and then went home to eat. Larry and I came inside to eat a hotdog and Dan and Wanda went home to eat. While we were eating, Jan, Judy and Pat(other sister from Canada) came over and they gave me a very nice blanket that they had made with a cat print. It was very cute and they said they made it special with the cat print for my birthday. They are just so wonderful and I consider them dear friends. They left to go home and we finished eating and took our coffee outside to drink and Dan and Wanda came back over. Dan brought some type of liquor and shot glasses and we all had shots. It tasted so terrible but when I went to bed I did not have a headache and my stomach felt great so maybe this is a new 'hangover cure'!
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