TT Park at LaConner, WA!

Aug 25, 2010 - Arrived at LaConner TT Park for our annual Labor Day week of pickleball. We found when we arrived that are favorite site was reserved by the park for a large weekend group of 180 people. We did find a site that was in lots of trees and never seen the sun.

Then on Sunday the 28th we moved to site 214 which is on Shark Street. This site is more in the open and has worked out much better. The only probblem has been trying to get the DirecTV Dish working for TV. So far no luck and still don't have TV. We have been getting the computer on the internet from the motor home which is a record, this park just has soo many trees,etc. and can never get cell service, except by walking to the beach or clubhouse.

We have had lots of pickleball going on, with the most pickleballers we have seen for our annual tournament. So far we have had Men and Ladies partner switch matches all in on Monday the 29th. I won all my matches for a total of 6-0 and since we had three other people with no lossses had to have a playoff and I ended up with 3rd place. Ione won all her games and won 1st place. So had a good day.

Then today, Sept. 1st played men's doubles and we had 13 teams. Had some great games and lots of fun. I had a new partner Ron Chance, who is a new pickleball player and 56 yrs. old. So he is just a young guy. We started the day plaaying the team that won the gold. We had a great match with Ron/Ron winning 11-9. Then had a great match again Bob Lanius and Mike Phipps and won that gamee11-6. So we are cruizing along with a 2-0 record and then came Carol and Windell. We just couldn't get our game going and lost 11-6. So that means we play the guys we beat in the first match. Things didn't improve much and we couldn't get going and lost 11-3. S0 our playing was over for the day.

While us guys were playing pickleball doubles the girls were out shopping and they got back about 4 PM with lots of things. Ione found a gift for Jessie and also some stuff for her self. That's it for today from Sunny LaConner. We did have a day of rain on Tuesday but today was sunny and great. Thats it for today.

The girls will be playing mixed doubles in the morning. Carol and Barry arrived today so Carol will be Ione's partner. Go girls and have a great day.