Christmas Airstream Park                                                       December 2005
    Christmas, Fl                 

What a great campout!  Treasure Coast Travelers joined Space Coast Winnies (SPW) and Sea Side Winnies (SSW) in Christmas, Florida for our December campout.   There were three rigs attending Billy & Gail Barnes, Barbara & Ralph Wilson and Ann & George Metz so we met on the road and caravanned to the park so that we could park together.   The Wilson’s and Barnes’ encountered some difficulty keeping up with “lead foot” Annie.  Ann really moves that RV!  

Frank Mays built an easy-to-assemble frame for our TCT banner which provided an easy set-up taking about 5 minutes.  Believe me everyone at this campout knew the Treasure Coast Travelers were there!  We looked great, thanks Frank. 

First let me thank these two chapters SCW and SSW for all the hard work and planning that went into this campout.  What a hard working, organized group of folks.  Each of these chapters provided either happy hour or meals.   I might add that a very complete schedule was provided to us by SPC President Ron Koehn and SSW President Stan White in advance so that we were all on the same page.  Thanks Ron and Stan for keeping us straight.  Both groups worked together and planned a fun-filled weekend that kept us busy.  

The members were extremely friendly and welcomed us with open arms (literally).   Ron Koehn assisted us with parking then greeted us with hugs and a friendly welcome.   Several members of SSW were waving at each rig as we pulled into the park yelling “welcome” to the campout.  What a great reception!  Almost immediately we had members of both groups visiting us making sure that we joined them for happy hour before leaving for our Christmas dinner at Dixie Crossroads. 

Their schedule included games and recreation after dinner but with the journey there, setting up and dinner out, we found that we just wanted to turn in for the night and be fresh for the next day’s activities. 

Ever heard of starting your day with a good breakfast?…well, thanks to Sea Side Winnies we all started our day with a great breakfast.  Our day’s activities included attending the Christmas Craft Show which was an eye-opener!  There were wood crafters, glass crafting, crochet and knitted items, home-made goodies and then to top it off there were drawing for some of the items that were created.  Lucky Gail & Billy had their number drawn and won a neck warmer.  The SCW participated in a “show and tell” for their sponsor. 

TCT returned to the campground to have our business meeting and elect officers for 2006.  They are President Billy Barnes; Vice-President Gail Barnes; Secretary Barbara Wilson and Treasurer Ann Metz.  Barbara and Gail will work together to put out newsletter out each month and Ralph Wilson volunteered to schedule our campout for three months.

Happy hour led into dinner provided by Space Coast Winnies.  Chicken Tetrazini and sides was prepared by their resident cook and it was fabulous.   We were totally impressed with the meal, the group of servers, helpers and clean up crew.  Thanks to the Space Coast Winnies for a wonderful dinner.

We participated in games led by Thumper, sang Christmas songs Karaoke style with Iva on the mike and participated in a “white elephant” gift exchange.  A lot of laughing and joking kept the spirits high and everyone had a ball!

Sunday morning at the continental breakfast TCT members thanked the two chapters for inviting us to the rally.  We all had a great time and hope that we will be camping with them again in the near future.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!   See you in 2006.

Barbara and Gail 

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