After the Grand Games

We went to lunch after Saturday morning's fun demo (see the previous post), after which we reconvened at Miller Park for impromptu Saturday afternoon play. Seven of us, including Eliza, who was a walk-up, played from about one o'clock to five o'clock.

With the forecast for rain on Sunday, it was a good chance to get in some weekend play.

Grand Games

Bob, Fred, Gail, Shirley, and I spent Saturday morning at the Winston-Salem Miller Park Center helping with the Grand Games that are part of the kick-offs for 2018 Piedmont Senior Games. Using a couple of sets of the soft-vinyl petanque boules designed for kids and/or indoor play, we let Grandparents team with Grandchildren in one of the day's five competitions-- petanque pointing.

In addition to basketball shooting, football tossing, shuffleboard, and cornhole, petanque was included this year for the first time. It was fun helping the kids and showing everyone how petanque is scored. We set a jack about seven meters away from the throwing circle with a boule about a half meter in front of it. We then allowed a Grandparent six boules and also the grndkid six boules to see how many points they could make by beating the boule resting in front.

With a possibility of accumulating twelve points, we had two teams score nine! Pretty good for kids and grandparents alike. It was harder than it probably sounds because the "boules" were not very close to being round and difficult to roll in a straight line.

Everyone seemed to have fun trying though.
--Gary

Anna

Last week Luis Matta and I played in Charlotte on Kings Dr on the greenway. Do you know the place? We invited friends (Pender and Patti Murphy) who had never played. We then went out for dinner. We bought coffee at Dunkin Donuts across the street to start. We are going to start playing when the mood hits and the weather agrees. Fun! 

Anna

Anna Gallant Carter

 

 

Seniors learning the game

Troy

Roberta, James, Francis

Regular Wednesday afternoon play at Miller Park saw three of our recent contacts at the 2018 Senior Games Kick-off Event turn out to play. Troy, Francis, and Roberta joined us to learn a little bit about how to play. The day was rather cold with temps just about reaching 50F when we started play, so we were happy that our "newbies" braved the wind and coolness and showed up anyway.

We're going to have a tournament on May 9th (that's a Wednesday) as an official event in the 2018 edition of Senior Games, so we're hoping to recruit a few more new players to compete.

Shirley is sending out information on the games to those in our group who are eligible for the event and we'll make the details available as we're able to finalize them.
--Gary