BINGO!

I think we have found how we will spend our retired years when we are beyond travel. We can sit in the home with our blankets wrapped around our knees and hold the cards, waiting breathlessly until we can call BINGO!

We have been out to Gay Bingo three times now and we are winners. Our first night was at Los Amigos, a bar for the less rowdy, but still fun-loving people. Every one has a bingo card and a drink, and the numbers get called fast and furious, although as the evening progresses, the slurred calling gets more obvious.

On that glorious first night, there were eight of us at the table and everyone but Nigel won a prize. Oh, how low I felt, the only one with no chance to call that magic word. Geordie won three times, three!, while I sat there more and more morose, thinking I should be crying into my beer, but having too much fun with the jokes, the repartee and the suspense. Geordie actually won four times, but didn't notice he'd won one of them until too late. You must call bingo on the last number called, and he didn't so he had to forfeit that prize.

So now we have dined at Los Amigos on one coupon and not dined at La Cantina on the other because we missed the deadline for the prize, since the restaurant wasn't serving the Taco bar the night we went to spend the prize. Oh well, no matter, the restaurant hasn't had good reviews with our friends anyway. And his third prize was 50 pesos for getting the full card. He didn't win the big prize because he didn't get the card full in the requisite number required.

Our second night was at The Blue Chairs Sunset Bar which was hosted by Ida Slapter, a lovely tall drag queen from some small town in Texas. She had a number of great anti-Bush jokes to share, and lots of tongue in cheek humor for the crowd.

No, Nigel didn't win there either, but of course Geordie did. Only once but then he did win six prizes at once, and some of them were very good - including a meal at one of the better mexican restaurants in PV. We have also used two of the prizes to buy new shirts for the Christmas and New Year's events from Liquid Men at a discount price.

Our third event was back at Los Amigos and finally Nigel got the chance to shout Bingo! with lusty voice - or maybe that was the happy hour beer talking. The prize was two free drinks at some bar, but really it was the chance to call Bingo that was most important. And yes, Geordie won again. We have to go back next week to see if we can get him to win the grand prize which is 1000 pesos and a night at a beach resort down the coast.

Now it's time for me to head to the beach again. I need to relax before our big dinner tonight at BocaBento. We will be dressed to the nines of course thanks to gay Bingo, and the meal sounds very impressive. Hope the restaurant can cope with 30 of us at once.

Cheers all, and Bingo!