Breakfast, Prizes, and Catfish, Oh my!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

This morning, we headed over to the Rally Hall at 9am for the provided breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuits and gravy, all cooked by a group of OK Chapter members. It was terrific! We ended up sitting with the couple in the site next to us, the Fowlers. They are in a motorhome... (affectionately called "SOBs" -- because they own Some Other Brand)!!  They are members of the Oklahoma Good Sams Club, and were invited by the OK Chapter Leaders (Also OKC Good Sams members) to attend. Heartland Rallies are open to others, they just may have to pay a small fee to attend.

After the breakfast, we had "club business," door-prizes and raffle ticket drawings. The door-prizes were all similarly-shaped in white plastic bags, and you got to choose your own. We ended up with a Camping World t-shirt and a Drill-Driver set. After the "grab-bag" door-prizes were given away, they drew again for some bigger prizes, and we won a nice folding camp chair with attached fold-out side table. Then followed the raffle, but we did not win.

After the prizes, there was a break. We decided to head back to the coach.

Heartlands take up two whole rows

We didn't stay home long, and decided on a trip to the Peanut Shoppe, to see what kind of sugar-free choices they had. We got some milk-chocolate covered pecans, and some white-chocolate-cashew squares. After that, we did some driving around for a bit, then headed back to the park. We ate a light lunch, since we were meeting at 3:15 to head to BG's Catch for dinner. Apparently they open at 4pm and fill up fast.

Tony decided to go try out Ladder Golf in the Rally Hall, while I took a nap. He came back about 2:30PM, and then at 3PM we got ready to go with the others to BG's. We caravanned to the restaurant on the OK side of Lake Texoma, and unfortunately the caravan got a little dis-jointed, but we all made it in time. Quite a crowd was gathering!

Crossing Texoma, this on U.S. Hwy 70, the Roosevelt Memorial Bridge

Waiting outside BG's Catch. (photo courtesy of Jay Coffman)

The meal was buffet-style with salad bar, catfish, shrimp, hush puppies, etc. We had a good meal, including some of the best catfish I can recall eating... but the best part was the homemade ice cream and peach cobbler! Our diet definitely went out the window today!

After dinner we walked around the park some and visited with various folks, and toured some coaches -- including a couple from Terrell that just upgraded to a new Big Country. Wow, it was nice! We ended up back at our coach, talking with Jay again and Terry, the NTX Chapter leader, about the great things Heartland has done for members of the club.

After a while it was getting cooler, so we called it a night. Once inside, we tried to watch the end of the NRA 500 NASCAR race being run at Texas Motor Speedway, but it was putting us to sleep... or was it the cobbler??? Tony and the kitties went to bed, and I followed soon after the race was won.