Welcome to the Gaff!

We have spent the better part of the last two days with our Palms buddies, Keith and Penne and a few friends of theirs...and new friends of ours. Thursday we stayed around home, doing chores, cleaning, etc. After which we met up with Keith and Penne for dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. It was fabulous eating with wonderful company. These two are the nicest people we have met on our trip and are incredibly young at heart and full of zest for life. We managed to behave, eat our Chimichanga's and were back home at a very reasonable hour.
Friday, Keith and Penne invited us to go to "town" with a few friends. I went with Penne, John and M.J. a bit earlier as they had a few errands to run in Corpus. After which we met Jeff,Keith,Walt,Ann,Bill,and Teresa for another wonderful meal out at Nico's Steakhouse. It was a really fun table of 10. We especially enjoyed meeting Bill and Teresa who are also new to full-timing and also heading to Florida next week. They are currently in a Rockport RV park while everyone else at the table is at the Palms. Great group of residents who certainly have given us good reason to come back this way.

Keith and Penne

We had just gotten home and were starting on giving the BP a bath, when Keith and Penne walked up and presented us with a bottle of Johnny Red and an invite to dinner later that evening on the island. Turns out Bill and Teresa had called them up and suggested we meet out on the island (Port Aransas) for pizza and beer! How could we refuse that! The BP got a quick bath and we soon were back on the road heading to Port A with our buddies.

The Gaff was our destination and what an awesome bar. This was genuine, no airs, down-home, and ultra friendly pizza joint. The six of us enjoyed a few pitchers, a few (delicious)  pizza's and more than a few laughs.

Teresa and Bill

As a sidebar, the Gaff seems to be a graffiti lovers paradise. The entire ceiling was covered with "autographs" and personal artwork. I thought it would be great to add our own personal stamp but when I asked the bartender for a Sharpie, I was told you have to "buy" a tile and they were all sold out. Oooops. I may have defaced someones personal ceiling tile, not quite by accident! The bathroom was the real work of art though...

We went on to have a quick beer at the Port Aransas Brewing Co. then headed out to catch the ferry back home. It was yet another fun evening and Jeff and I feel to blessed to have met all these wonderful folks!

Today has been a quiet end to a year of pretty significant events in our lives (though not as tumultuous as the two years prior). We are counting our blessings, and looking forward to what the next year may bring. We are grateful for our family and old friends and the new friends as well. We will be moving on in the morning to Beaumont, Texas for 3 days then onto Louisiana! But tonight....New Years Eve at the Palms (they are having a dance!). And goodbyes to Keith, Penne and 2011!!!