South Central Texas Boomers Campout.....

On Friday afternoon, we checked into the Peach Country RV Park in Stonewall, TX to spend the weekend with the Boomers camping club. Thirty-five rigs attended this event, even though it was supposed to rain all weekend!! The weather turned out to be not as bad as predicted. Althought it was cloudy, it barely rained all day Saturday, plus it was nice and cool.

The day started out with a large buffet breakfast....


After breakfast, some of the people gathered up and went into Fredericksburg for a day of shopping and looking around. Nine of us stayed at the campground hall, and particpated in the 3rd annual Texas Hold'em Tournament. Here's a look at the table during a break, when half of them were eliminated. My chips are next to the Whataburger cup.......

Within the next hour, it was all over, and "I had all the chips"! Yep, I won the 2007 tournament!!

Before I post the next pictures, I need to explain about the 'mascot' for the club. It seems that on one of the first campouts of this club, the members were parked in a campground with another club whose members had the $500k plus rigs, and the rich folks made some disparging remarks about the 'trash' in the smaller rigs! Well, on a shopping trip later in the day, the leader of our club spotted some pink flamingos in a shop, and decided that they should be purchased and placed outside the 'trashy' rigs to properly compliment the owners.......... so they did, and the flamingo became the mascot. Therefore, everybody goes crazy with the pink birds and any likeness of them. Now the following pictures, including the poker trophy will make more sense.

Here is a picture of a pair of successful shoppers......

Here's a picture of me with all the chips, my trophy, and the set of cards & poker chips that was part of the prize, plus $67 cash!!

Saturday concluded with another buffet meal (lots of good food), and the presentation of the poker tournament winners (top three). The nice lady doing the talking in the following picture is Sandy Creekmore, AKA Madam Boomer. She is also modeling the glasses in the preceding picture.The guy giving me the trophy in the following picture is Don Allen. His wife, Pat, is the other model in the 'flamingo glasses' photo:

Although we have only been to about four campouts with this group, it seems that Sandy and Don put out a lot of their personal time and effort to make the events successful. Patsy and I are greatful for that........ we always have a lot of fun.


We left on Sunday morning, and are on our way to Red Bay, AL. More later