GYPSY RALLY DAY 3

Everyone is waiting for the pizza party to begin.

Yesterday morning, Patty and Nancy went off to Greg White's seminar on "10 things to never do with your computer", while I stayed lazy in the motor home with Sami & Gracie. When the girls got back, we went to lunch at a Mexican Restaurant on "B" Street (El Papagayo or something like that), and the food was excellent. From there, we decided to go motor home shopping. No, not for us, but for Nancy who will soon be in the market for a diesel pusher. She has kind of narrowed the field to a Tiffin Phaeton, so we drove out to LaMesa RV, and walked through a 2012 model. It had the floor plan she was looking for, and it was a really nice motor home. If I was in the market for a new one, I would definitely look at the Tiffin models first.

My guess is that there is about 300 people registered for the 2012 Gypsy Journal Rally, and this picture shows most of them just prior to the pizza being served.

When we got back from looking at new motor homes, we had enough time to feed our dogs, then we headed over to the main hall for the pizza party, and the cactus queen beauty contest. When the pizza arrived, and people started through the lines, according to Nick, it took 5 1/2 minutes for everyone to get their pizza. Miss Terry has perfected a system that gets warm pizza onto every one's plate in just a very short time. Dominoes Pizza is not exactly my favorite, but if you want a good seat for the after dinner spectacle, the pizza party is almost a prerequisite.

When our kids would do crazy or what we considered stupid things when they were growing up, I'm sure many parents would just shake their heads like I did on many occasions. By posting these pictures, I'm now allowing my kids to get some payback, and do the same thing.

Last night, 5 perfectly normal, male, senior citizens, attempted to dress like the opposite sex, and as in the past, it was hilarious. With Nick playing the beauty contest master of ceremonies/ comedian, the laughs were coming at a fast & furious pace.

Men don't normally cross their legs to conceal anything. This was not a pretty sight!

The "ladies" did their best to convince the audience to vote for them, but in the end, their was only one winner.

This cactus queen hopeful was trying to convince Nick to just declare her (him) the winner.

When the voting began, the audience had the final say, and this beauty was declared the winner of the 2012 cactus queen beauty contest. These 5 guys deserve a lot of credit for putting on a show that was more than a laugh a minute. Would I ever do anything like that? I've done some pretty crazy things in my life, but the answer to that question is a big fat NO!