CORN HOLE

Mr. W's brother, DWW, and his wife, Barb, are in Branson.  They recently bought a new travel trailer and decided to spend 3 weeks in Branson with us.  Yay! They arrived last Friday and granted, we have not done much in the way of blogging material. The weather here has been beyond A-W-E-S-O-M-E! You could not ask for any better.  We have mainly been hanging around the RV park, just getting out to run to the store or go eat.

Yesterday, we drove to Harrison, Arkansas to have lunch and when we got back, Mr. W wanted to set up a "friendly" game of Corn Hole.  Now some of you may call this Bean Bag Toss, but in the "serious" circles, it is called Corn Hole. The object of the game is to get the bean bag in the hole.  If you do, you score 3 pts.  If you get the bean bag on the board, you get 1 pt., as long as none of the bean bag is hanging off.  Since the board is slanted, sometimes the bean bag that is on the board will eventually slide off the board before your turn is up. Ugh!

In our travels, we have witnessed many, many Corn Hole games/tournaments going on with lots of cheering and sighing going on.  Yesterday was no different.

Mr. W and DWW challenged me and Barb.  We were going to "whoop" them (or so we thought)!  Each team took their side and each team was given one practice round.  Barb and I were first.  I don't think we scored any points.  How did that happen?  We are better than that.  It must have been just an "off" round.

Barb taking her turn at throwing the bean bag.

Now it is the guys' turn.  They scored 9 points.  What? OK, now, it is on.  No stinking boys are going to beat us!

 

DWW throwing the bean bag.

Well, maybe the first game they beat us.  So, let's go the best 2 out of 3.  Well, let's just say that the second game went into extra innings. Dang those boys!

By this time, our friends Mickey and James had walked over and James was up for a game.  This time, Mr. W and I took on DWW and James.  Mr. W and I won!  We are the champions, we are the champions, we are the champions!  Sorry, I got a little carried away.  And I wonder where my children get their competitive nature???

James taking his turn.

Afterward, we decided we better sit down and relax for a while.  Those games of Corn Hole can be tough!  I think our neighbors were a little jealous that we were having so much fun.  But, then again, we are a fun group. :)

On another topic, Treasure Lake, the place we are staying, started a "Veteran's Wall" and for $50 you can have someone's name, what branch of the military they were in, and the years they were in the military put on the wall.  Mr. W and DWW decided to have that done in Pepa's memory.  Pepa was a World War II Veteran. When we arrived, we checked the wall and sure enough, there was his name and information.  Pepa would have liked that.

Look at the bottom left corner.