Gates

We wanted to go for a walk on the nature trail after the Putt Putt.  The nature trail was back at the community centre.  So we drove back and parked and got out beside the entrance to the nature trail.  I saw a worker walking on the boardwalk and thought Oh No she is locking the gate.  And I was right it closed at dusk and was all locked up.

Parking

Barb was told that you had to park and walk a few blocks to get to the Putt Putt.  So we parked where we saw a few people with putters and started walking.  It was a long way and it was getting late.  When we found the Putt Putt, Barb went up to the manager and asked about where we rent putters.  The man said that you had to go back to the Community Centre.  So we drove back about a mile to the Community Centre and since I was the only one with their Villages ID card, I went in to see about the putters.  The man said he only had four putters but I could have them and two of us would have to share.  So we took the putters and drove back all the way past the Putt Putt and parked at a different and closer parking lot.  We played Putt Putt and it was fun but we didn't keep score because none of us were any good.  We were behind a large family who were playing really slowly and we had to wait at each hole for a long time.  We were happy when they went home early and didn't finish the course.

Divided Highway

We were driving to the other side of The Villages to a Putt Putt game.  It was a long drive into an area that was new and still under construction in some areas.  Barb was driving and pointing out things to the girls.  She thought it was a two lane divided highway because there was a median and two lanes on the other side of the median but those two lanes were still under construction.  So it turned out that the highway was just two single lanes and Barb was driving down the road on the wrong side of the road.  She didn't realize it until she saw another car coming right at her.  Fortunately, she was able to swerve back into the right lane.

Scattergories

We had this game called Scattergories we had never played.  So Barb got it out and Julia read us the rules.  It involved rolling a dice with 26 sides. Each side had a letter of the alphabet on it.  Then there was a list of subjects and each of us was supposed to try to write down three things in each of the categories that start with the letter.  It was hard to think of things because your mind would get stuck on something and you couldn't think of anything else.  Also you had to have original things.  If someone else had your word, it didn't count.  So it was a funny game.  We would roll the dice and then sit quietly for a few minutes thinking and then start reading off our words.  We would scream at each other if someone had the same word as us and we would scream at each other if someone thought of an original word that was so obvious we should have thought of it ourselves.

Orange Juicer

We picked a lot of oranges and then we were going to squeeze them using my sisters juicer while Barb was cooking dinner.  Barb told us to wait and then she gave me a special present that she said she should have given me earlier.  It was a super heavy duty manual orange juicer that I couldn't break.  We had a great production line squeezing about five bags of oranges into five one litre jugs.  Julia had found the juicer at Sam's when they had all gone there the other day.  Barb had never noticed them before.

Speaker

Laura bought Sarah a bluetooth speaker shaped like a pile of poop.  Sarah hooked it up to her phone and played Christmas carols from Spotify for us to open presents by.

Yet Another Sweater

Barb bought Laura a Jack Skelington Nightmare Before Christmas sweater that was a children's small and it fit perfectly.