Donna and I rode the scooter to town after lunch on Thursday. Thunderstorms were threatening, I could see a line of storms to the west of us on the weather radar. We didn’t linger in town – just picked up a few things at the store. On the way back, Donna pointed to a sign that read “community pool.” I took a detour to check it out.

It turned out to be located on a 12-acre aquatic and skate park funded jointly by the cities of Rockport and Fulton and Aransas County. Rockport operates the park. The pool has eight lanes and it’s 25 yards long. Donna went inside to see what the requirements were to use the pool. It was simple – pay a fee and come on in. For $20, she can make six visits to the pool. Actually, we can make six visits – the $20 allows entry for both of us. There’s a pool here at the RV park – nice for cooling off, but much too small to swim laps.

We came back the RV park to be inside before the storm hit. The storm came later than I expected, but when it hit, it rained hard and lightning strikes were all around us. Half an inch of rain fell in a little over an hour! This area averages 3.10 inches of rain during the month of May. So far, 5.14 inches of rain have been measured with more to come.

A lot of weekend warriors pulled into the park on Friday for Memorial Day weekend. The park isn’t completely full, but there are way more rigs here than we had all week.

Most of these sites were empty until Friday

The managers were true to their word – they didn’t assign anyone to the site behind us.

Our double length site

I again expected rain later Friday afternoon. Donna took the scooter around 11:30am and went to the community pool. She swam 40 laps – over half a mile and said the pool was awesome.

We thought about grilling shrimp. Donna bought jumbo wild Texas shrimp that were the size of my thumb. Due to the threatening weather, we scrapped the grill idea and Donna prepared curry shrimp with spinach. She sprinkled it with chopped peanuts and served it over brown jasmine lemon rice.

Curry shrimp with peanuts

It was absolutely delicious. There’s no reason to eat like you’re camped out just because you’re in an RV. Donna prepares a wide variety of meals on our induction cooktop. I eat like a king, just like when we were living in our sticks-and-bricks home.

Today we’ll have more heat and humidity with a chance of scattered thundershowers this afternoon. We’ll head into town and explore a bit – maybe visit the aquarium. The next storm is due to hit late tonight and the weather guessers are already warning us to be ready for a doozy. They are expecting flooding to the west of us. The area from San Antonio to Dallas/Fort Worth might get five to eight inches of rain from this storm!

The extended forecast looks like we can expect scattered thunderstorms for the remainder of the time we’re here. Hopefully we can avoid any flooded areas when we roll out of here June 1st.