Hiow we spent our weekend

Friday

Bill Cooke

We made the trip up to Asheville to play at the new terrains at Michel's soon-to-be new restaurant, Rendezvous. They're going to have eight courts and hope to be open by late summer for French food at its finest. Michel envisions a place where people can not  only enjoy French cuisine inside, but can also choose to purchase a prepared picnic for outside at petanque. There will also be a bar for people who just want to hang out and relax.

 Saturday

New shade structures are Work-in-Process

Then, on Saturday, after visiting on Friday night in Crossnore with Danny and Sue, we came back down the mountains a ways to play in Morganton. Unfortunately, we picked a day when none of the "regular crowd" was avaialable. Steve, Jane, John, Jeff, Tracie, David, Ed, Kirk, Bo, Parker, Marc, Kathy, Juan, Susanne, etc, ALL had other commitments. What are the chances? Oh, well, Bill drove down from Asheville, do it was just the five (Bill, Danny, Sue, Shirley, and myself) of us for play. Still had a lot of fun though!

Sunday

James brought a petanque cookie-cake!

Nathan and Katie

Nathan, Lamar, and Sarah

We finished up the weekend back at Miller Park in Winston-Salem, and, this time, we had plenty of players. We didn't know what to expect, crowd-wise, since it was Mother's Day, but there was a large turnout. We were particularly happy to see Kirk and Bo there since they don't make it all the way down to W-S very often.

Also, we had a walk-up group of Sally and her extended family join us for the first time. Sally, Katie, Drew, Sarah, Lamar, Gigi, Nathan, and LJ seemed to have a great time, and we hope they'll be back soon.