Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Silveridge RV Resort, Mesa, AZ: Apr 3-16
We settled in here for our 2-week trial -- two weeks for the price of one and still VASTLY overpriced at almost $300. This is REALLY the resort with all the amenities you could want and a lot more than we would ever want or need. This "clubby" lifestyle is not for us, but it was nice to see what it is like and find this out. We did go online to the World Linedance Newsletter and were able to find some conveniently located line dance classes taught by Fran Dewar and Cindy. These were great classes and we met some really nice people and learned some new dances.
Our main reason for stopping here was to play in the Roadrunner Senior Regional Bridge tournament -- questing for still more gold points. We had made plans to meet up with friend Ron & Lana and play in all the team games with them; however, due to difficulties caused by Ron's ailing father and AZ cutting the Medicaid funding for seniors, they were relegated to caregivers, so we were on our own. We decided to be bold and go to the Partnership Desk in search of teammates and see how that worked. The first pair we got were very compatible, and we made it to the finals of that knockout before losing to a clearly superior team -- and we moved up one bracket so we we're not in the lowest! Since they could not play again until the Sunday Swiss teams, and since there were some excellent line dance classes those days, we decided we'd also take off from bridge and focus on line dancing. By Saturday we were ready for more bridge, so we came back to the Partnership Desk. This time we were not so lucky. We got a pair who were quite novice at team games. We entered a Compact Knockout and did manage to come out 4th out of 12 teams, which was not too shabby. Back with our other partners in the Swiss teams on Sunday, we were not so lucky. We managed to "place" at about 15/16 and get a few red points but no more gold. So now we lack about 10 gold and 20 silver, plus some more black points, for our Life Masters.
Our main reason for stopping here was to play in the Roadrunner Senior Regional Bridge tournament -- questing for still more gold points. We had made plans to meet up with friend Ron & Lana and play in all the team games with them; however, due to difficulties caused by Ron's ailing father and AZ cutting the Medicaid funding for seniors, they were relegated to caregivers, so we were on our own. We decided to be bold and go to the Partnership Desk in search of teammates and see how that worked. The first pair we got were very compatible, and we made it to the finals of that knockout before losing to a clearly superior team -- and we moved up one bracket so we we're not in the lowest! Since they could not play again until the Sunday Swiss teams, and since there were some excellent line dance classes those days, we decided we'd also take off from bridge and focus on line dancing. By Saturday we were ready for more bridge, so we came back to the Partnership Desk. This time we were not so lucky. We got a pair who were quite novice at team games. We entered a Compact Knockout and did manage to come out 4th out of 12 teams, which was not too shabby. Back with our other partners in the Swiss teams on Sunday, we were not so lucky. We managed to "place" at about 15/16 and get a few red points but no more gold. So now we lack about 10 gold and 20 silver, plus some more black points, for our Life Masters.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 10:21 AM 
