The Park is filling up & Genealogy

The day started off with us attending the coffee and donut gathering at the clubhouse.  Either the park or different RV dealers provide the goodies each Tuesday.  They also have a lucky buck drawing, but we have only won that one time.  Today we did win a folding stool that we don't have any use for and now will have to find a place to store it.  

The RV vendor sells a new product line, however it sounds like his main business is providing a consignment place for sellers and buyers.  We've seen his business from a distance and often wondered what he sold.  Now we know.

It seems like the rvers from previous years must have gotten lost on their way here this year.  For most of this season we've been here the park has many open spaces.  In fact, it had fewer rvers than any time we've been here for the past 6 years.  All that has changed in the past few days with the arrival of 6-7 new rvs each day.  Most are staying for more than one night and I am sure the park managers are glad to see that.  There is only one opening in the row that we are in and if Steve & Judy hadn't bailed on us, that would be full also.

We went to the all you can eat pizza night at the clubhouse and had a great time.  Dave comes in with partially prepared pizzas (dough) and prepares pizzas on a counter.  He has 6 ovens that are used to heat the pizzas and really puts them out there fast.  55 people signed up for the pizza party and there were around 85 people there.  Quite a surprise to the social directors, but the pizza guy was prepared for 90 and all went well.  We sat with Ron & Dee and Ron and enjoyed the banter back and forth.

After the party we got back to the MH in time to see the NCIS TV programs and they were both repeats that we'd seen before.  There wasn't much worth watching so we just watched the Bourne movies that were playing.

I spent some time researching a relative on the ancestry.com website and not only found her, but her marriage, husband's name and info about their three children with two spouses shown.  I then searched a newspaper in the town where they lived and found his obituary from 2009 which had a lot of information about them.  It is amazing what is out there if you know where to look.  These people are in a line from a half sister to my great grandmother.  It is always difficult to trace the female side since you never know their married names, but in this case I found marriage data on three of them in the line.