YUP ... FRIDAY THE 13TH!!

 Good Morning Indio!!  At last Google got its act together and seems to be working.  I think they found out I downloaded Firefox and their life was going to be short lived, if only on my computer.  The morning sunrise was fabulous.  The cold breeze ... not so much.

Here's a couple more pictures from the parade.  Is this the queen?  I saw the yellow brick road way too many moons ago to remember anything but Toto.

This was the not so cowardly Lion.  He barked and barked ... on command of course.  A pretty tough customer he was.

On this morning, since RV rallies are all about the food ... we had a Manly cooked pancake breakfast.  That's because the men had to do all the cooking.  Almost anyway.  I decided it would be much easier if I browned the sausage inside.  

That of course led to fire alarms going off everywhere, scaring the heck out of poor Cooper.  When I finally got it shut off, the greasy griddle outside put off enough smoke to get sucked into my rig and set it off again.  Hey ... it was time for everyone else to get up anyway.

Mickey Mouse pancakes prevailed, along with jelly, butter, HOT syrup, sausages and fruit.  Shoot ... I forgot the juice.  Oh well ... they will survive.  This was the third and thankfully the LAST meal I have to provide.  Friday and Saturday are DYO days.  Dinner on your own.

With that out of the way, I went back to concentrating on ice cream.  I figured to have 28 boxes left over.  It's up to the mucky mucks to decide who gets it.  I went down Glitz row and got rid of about 15.  Next I decided to move the ice cream from the small REAL freezers, into the wannabe big freezer.  The ice cream from there would go into the small freezers.  I was hoping it would keep it all cold enough until today.

That's when for no reason whatsoever, I opened the freezer/fridge that was NOT turned on.  OMG!!  Are you kidding me?  Someone put EIGHT BOXES of ice cream in the freezer that wasn't working at all!!  I panicked.  I threw them in the big freezer.

Then I grabbed one of my guys and we rushed off to Winco to buy Dry Ice.  Who would have thought they would have it?  It cost $75.00.  For that money they could have rented a REAL freezer!!  Hopefully it works to keep the big freezer cold enough until all the ice cream is delivered.  It's been a comedy of errors that hasn't been funny to me at ALL!!

The other Nancy and I then spent an hour opening boxes to find the eight and throw them away.  They were way too melted to try and resurrect. 

I finally calmed down enough to hit the vendor building.  SCORE!!  The top glass is naked sugar cookies with a pile of frosting in the top cup for dipping.  Follow that up with a peanut butter and a chocolate ice cream cup full of cake and MORE frosting.  It soothed the savage beast who was mad about the ice cream.

I also picked up five of those dip makers.  Really, I don't use them.  You know the ones ... they prepare 25 dips and give you pretzels to taste test them?  When I told her I never make dips, she said I could use them to make pasta instead.  Are you kidding?  These flavors on pasta?  SOLD!!!  

By the end of the day, I was pretty tired, but ... dinner calls.  Did you know it was National Curry Chicken Day?  So the Painters and I went to a local Indian restaurant and chowed down.  This was just delicious.  It's not hot ... you get to choose from 1 to 10, how hot you want it to be.  Mine was a TWO ... I'm a wimp.  But I ate the entire thing!!!

They don't have restaurants like this where I come from.  However, I will pass on the next National Food Day ... It's kombucha !!!  That's a NO.

Oh ... and did I mention I got a golf cart?  Surprise surprise!!  And I'm taking mucho advantage!!  One more day of ice cream and I'll be free like a bird.  I can't wait!!