Going to visit Heartland family

Thursday, March 31

Today, we were headed to Oak Creek RV Resort near Weatherford, TX for the North Texas Chapter Rally. Tony took off Friday, and left a little early on Thursday so we could go.

I had a busy day of work, trying to wrap up a few large projects, but luckily things slowed down when we were packing up and we finally pulled out about 3:30. 

A little backstory:

Easter weekend, we had planned to go skiing in Santa Fe. But strong winds and blowing dust warnings helped us decide to cancel those plans, so we instead spent the weekend doing some other shorter trips around the area. Friday we went to Brownwood and scoped out the State Park there at Lake Brownwood, and Saturday we went to Abilene State Park and looked around as well. 

Pic of me at Abilene State Park as a little girl, maybe 6-7?

Me in the same spot, 40 years later! 

We also visited the two RV dealerships in Abilene, Big Country RV and Vincent Motors RV, to let them know about the Heartland Owners Club, and the West Texas Chapter. 

Sunday, Tony and I worked to swap the ski and golf things again from storage, since he'd be golfing with the guys at the rally. We also trimmed some tree branches around our site, so we wouldn't be hitting them as we left. We also trimmed some around the curve of the turnaround near the bottom of the hill.

Trimming branches

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Thursday, we had no problems pulling out and around the park thanks to the trimming we did. 

We had no problems, and arrived at the Oak Creek RV Resort. Immediately, folks came to say "hi!" But they were getting ready to go to Brazos River Cafe for catfish. We hurried to get set up, then drove over to join them. 

Our site, #1.

There was a large group already there, but we got fast service, and really enjoyed our meal. Yay! It's rally time! 

Brazos River Cafe

After dinner I had a job request to take care of, so I went to work while tony walked around and visited.

Once I got my project done, I went out looking for him, and ended up talking to a few folks I hadn't seen for a while. I finally tracked down Tony, he was at Ted and Dee's Big Country, along with a group sitting around a fire and enjoying beverages. 

Enjoying the fire at Ted & Dee's

The night was getting cool, and the group finally broke up about 9:45.

What a great start to the rally!!