Ancient Oaks Oldlympics

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Today's blog is about old timers having a good old time at the Ancient Oaks RV Resort.  The park sponsored  the first Oldlympics (Olympics for oldies) which consisted of four members per team competing in ten events.  Teams that finished with the three highest scores in each event were awarded gold medals, silver medals, and bronze medals respectively.  The events consisted of ten games such as bean bag toss, frisbee toss, shuffle board, monkey golf, marshmallow golf, casting, horse shoe throw, petanque, cotton ball carry, and cup stacking.  Other games were considered such as Twister.  But, the committee figured that game would require too many ambulances to carry the injured to the hospital!

Our street, 65th Avenue, had folks on three different teams.  Our three teams were named the Jungle Jocks, 4 Smileys, and Domestic Goddesses.  Let's meet the players now.

Here's the 4 Smileys strutt'n their stuff with their smiley faces!

L to R: Barb, Pat, Carol, and Joan

Costumes designed by Susan

Here's the Jungle Jocks warming up before the games begin!

L to R: Captain Craig, Leaping Larry, Bird Man Barry, and Eagle Eye Ted

Costumes designed by Susan

 And here's the gorgeous Domestic Goddesses.  I am not sure if they are ready for the games or if they are going to clean the place up with those feather dusters! Ha!

L to R: Barb, Carolyn, Carol, and Norma.

If you think the competition wasn't serious, well...you're wrong!  But, all in good fun and the competition was truly international.  There were participants here from Canada and other foreign places like Kentucky, and Texas!

Here's a shot of the opening ceremony when the teams all march into the club house.  Notice the precision  marching of these highly trained athletes.  Everyone is in perfect step with each other.  We practiced this for days and it really paid off!

 Here's a few shots of some of the action.  This is Leaping Larry casting a fishing pole, and it's a three pointer!
Look real hard and you will see an island between the clump of trees near the center of this picture.  The next pictures shows a gator on the island.

Here's the gator keeping an eye on the games!

This is Leaping Larry throwing the horse shoe.  Each team member only gets one throw.  We didn't even get a practice throw, so you really had to be on your "A" game today!

This is Eagle Eye Ted concentrating on his swing.  You have to hit that marshmallow just right to get a three pointer using a putter.  If this had been a real hot day, that marshmallow would probably have stuck to the putter and it is never good to have marshmallow stuck to your putter!  But, Eagle Eye Ted nails it!

This is Captain Craig shuffling his way through the shuffle board contest.  They let us each have one practice try before the real shuffle.  The Jungle Jocks scored big on the practice shots, and we thought we were on our way to a gold medal.  But, the practice didn't  count.  Naturally, we didn't get any points when the shots were for real!

This event requires nerves of steel, a steady hand, and some creative strategy stacking paper cups!

This is Bird Man Barry carrying cotton balls with a spoon before an admiring audience.  The score is based upon the number of cotton balls that the team drops into the bowl on the floor after carrying them across the room without dropping any.

This is Pat (Mrs. Eagle Eye) on the shuffle board court.

Oops! We might have the first injury of the games here.  Oh... no, it's just Pat tying her shoe while Joan checks out the competition.  I guess no one told Pat to tie her shoe BEFORE the games started! Ha!

This last picture is the cheering section.  Debbie is on the left and her mom is on the right.  Debbie was a cheerleader back in high school, and you can see they both really know how to whip the crowd into a frenzy! Ha!

The Oldlympics was a great success.  Everyone had fun and no one was admitted to the emergency room!  It's yet another day full of great old times with great old timers.