This being their first visit to America’s Friendliest Hometown, we wanted them to get a real flavor of what The Villages had to offer. Since we don’t own a golf cart ourselves, we rented a four-seater for the day. Fortunately, it was a beautiful day. Unfortunately, we had rented “The Slowest Golf Cart on the Planet”. Cart after cart passed us on our four hour tour. We didn’t pass a single cart except one whose batteries had failed. (This was very embarrassing, since Gary and Rhonda drive Corvettes!) Eventually we arrived at Sumter Landing. Since Gary has a Harley, we had to stop in for him to get a souvenir of his visit. Here are Gary and Rhonda in front of the shop… does he look like your typical Hog rider? (Okay, so he has a beard, but we didn’t see any tattoos, and he wasn’t wearing one of those wallets on a big chain…)
Gary and Rhonda are “into” horses, so after they visited one location in Oxford to view some miniature horses, we took them to Brownwood to see some full-size versions. (This wasn’t a very colorful horse, and its rider was a typical laconic cowboy…)
On Saturday evening Gary and Suzanne had their second presentation, again a full house. Gary is a fabulous speaker, and had the audience spellbound while describing his experiments and particularly his mentor Susy Smith’s guidance from the other side.
After two exhausting days of indoctrination to The Villages lifestyle, and two highly successful evenings of presentations on the afterlife, we decided to reward Gary and Rhonda with a gourmet dinner of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a milk chaser. (Rhonda wisely opted for dessert instead.) Suzanne slipped some “Villages Koolaid” in their drinks, and we’re hoping that Gary and Rhonda become frequent visitors to, and ultimately new residents of, The Villages!
Rudy and Gretchen, who normally bark at visitors, were the subjects of a Behavior Modification Experiment. Gary and Rhonda have been handing them their little doggie treats all week, and the puppies have been noticeably quieter… here they are enjoying a small portion of peanut butter on spoons after our PB&J’s.
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Jennifer
Very nice! Would like to have seen the presentation…Gary sounds like an interesting speaker as well…