YUMA SENIOR GAMES AND THE JAN AND DEAN SHOW

We’re having so much fun down here that I am losing track of when I wrote my last blog.  We are playing pickleball regularly during the week and have signed up for the Yuma Senior Games in the Pickleball event.  The Games includes a wide variety of sports and games and is open to anyone in the following age groups:  50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79 and 85+.  The games include athletic events such as golf, tennis, volleyball, pickleball, bowling, track and field, badminton, table tennis and more sedentary games such as horseshoes, cribbage, dominoes, billiards, dart throwing and bocce ball.  The games began on January 18 and end on February 29 with a potluck lunch and slide show presentation.

We’re both signed up for pickleball events.  Stuart is playing in the men’s doubles with a guy from Penticton, I’m playing in the women’s doubles with a lady from Dryden, Ontario and Stuart and I are partnering for the mixed doubles.  We play on February 18, 19 and 21 and are looking forward to the competition.

Last Friday we attended The Jan and Dean Show hosted here at the Palms and it was a great concert.  Jan is no longer around but Dean still performs with his band and they sound really good.  They sang almost non-stop for an hour and a half and the audience was really into it singing along with all the songs.  It was nice to hear songs from our younger years and still remember all the words.  Some of their notable songs were Surf City, Deadman’s Curve, The Little Old Lady from Pasadena and Drag City.  They also performed some of the Beach Boys songs and they successfully hit all the high (falsetto) notes.  Here are a few photos:

Yesterday, we attended a neighbourhood appy’s and light supper event and met a few more people from places like Oregon, Colorado and of course, BC and Alberta.  It’s always interesting to swap stories on the things we have in common.  Good times in sunny (but often windy) Yuma.