Gypsies and Queens

We spent the last week at the Gypsy Journal’s Rally, a.k.a the Gypsy Gathering, in Yuma, Arizona.

Here’s our hosts: Nick and Terry Russell, writers/editors/publishers of the Gypsy Journal, a great couple who support themselves on the road by publishing the Journal and other things.

They host the rally that makes us laugh the most of all the rallies we’ve been to. Others make us laugh sometimes but Nick makes us laugh every day with the comments he makes as he introduces people to us, awards door prizes and other prizes, and presents his own seminars.

Here’s one couple he introduced to us. They call themselves Ea$y Money.

But we didn’t make it easy for them that night. They thought they were coming to play for a dance but the room was set up for a concert. RVers are nothing if not versatile and easy to please, though. So we danced anyway–in back of the audience. In couples and as line dancers. There were more dancers than these pictures show but, like I said, they were behind us so it was hard to get good pictures of them.

Wednesday evening started with the traditional pizza party. Terry has her helpers so organized they served 300 people in 15 minutes!

That was followed by the Gypsy Queen contest. It’s hard to walk away from one of these because our laugh muscles hurt.

Here’s the contestant I thought was the most lady like–contestant #2.

Here’s Nick trying to help contestant #1 be lady like. Knees together, please.

Did it work?

Not until she…

…used her feather boa to tie her knees together. But look at contestant #2–very lady like pose. And what about this one–check out the model-like position of those legs.

This candidate though bringing wine might help.

And this one is discussing with Nick the possibility of his being the baby’s daddy.

As each candidate was introduced Nick told us their names and read their biographies to us. With my bad hearing I missed most of the names but this one is Miss Lottie Hottie.

So there you have them. Eight candidates for Gypsy Queen. Who would you vote for?

It turned out to be more of a popularity contest than a beauty contest. The one who misbehaved the most, thus made us laugh the most, won. So here’s Miss Lottie wearing her crown over her hat.

Oh, yeah. During the week we also won a fire extinguisher, went to some seminars where we learned some new things, bought some new stuff from some vendors who presented good infomercial type seminars, and ate some mini donuts. Isn’t that what these gatherings are all about?

TTYL,

Linda