Day 17 Sun Jan 29 At Rio Bend, (final day)

Weather mid to upper 70’s, clear, no wind

Slept in a bit, and then went for a walk to check out the Golf clubhouse for lunch. It wasn’t fancy, just a park model with a porch overlooking a pond in the golf course but the menu looked interesting. Unfortunately, the kitchen was closed today so we had to go back to the RV for a quick lunch before we began the “Poker Run.”
Today is the Poker Run Chilli Feed. The idea is that you go to several locations and get a sealed envelope with a playing card in it. You collect 5 envelopes, then go to a place to turn them in. They are opened by the organizers & listed as to what you hand is. So, to start we go to the golf pro shop & get 2 envelopes, then to 4 RV sites around the park to pick up the other 4 envelopes. We turned them in at the Café. The chilli part comes later. To enter we paid $5.00 plus a can of chilli each. The picking up of the envelopes was from 1 to 2 PM, then drop off at the Café 2 to 3 PM. Then at 5 PM there was a chili feed in the campground Ramada. You got chilli, buns, bag of corn chips, toppings for the chilli of onions, shredded cheese & jalapenos, and there was cake for dessert. I had a bowl & a half of chilli & 2 pieces cake & I brought 1 piece of cake home. Now the results: Sheila’s hand was K Q J 10 8, Bren’s was 8 8 4 4 9, my 2 pair won me $16.00. Top hand was only 3 jacks. Now if Sheila had gotten my 9, and I got her 8, we would have taken 1st & 2nd prizes because she would have had a ‘straight’ & I’d have had a ‘full house’. To add mystery to the event, at the first stop I picked up 2 envelopes and handed Sheila one of them, she said she wanted to pick her own from then on. What if, on the first stop, I had picked out the envelopes with the 8 & 9 and handed her the 8 & kept the 9.
In between handing in the envelopes & chilli feed time we went to the pool & hot tub & sat out in the sun. They have movie night in the Café every Sunday but today it was “The Kings Speech” which we saw last year so it is back to the RV for the night.