We went to El Mogote for a potluck Sundayand it was pretty fun. We drove our dinghy to Flying Cloud, picked up Eileen and drove straight to El Mogote. People were already there and playing in the water. We stopped a couple feet out to put on our wheels. "OVER HERE!!!" Jamie yelled, flailing his arms franticly as we drifted away from the party. "There's Jamie," Eileen said. "Always stating the obvious."

We brought spaghetti with sauce and set it down on the blanket with all the other food. Immediately, Allison from Sunbreak asked if we wanted to play bocce ball. Well, I have never played bocce ball and neither have Tara or my mom. So we asked if they would show us how.

We caught on fast. "I must warn you that I am very good at shotput," Tara said. Allison throws what she calls the pea (a small yellow ball) and it lands somewhere on the ground. I don't know why she calls it a pea, Either because it's yellow or because it's small... The object is to hit the pea or get as close to it as possible with your ball. Tara and I were a team (blue square), my mom and Allison were a team (blue circle), Jamie and Eileen were a team (red square), and Milton and Dana were a team (red circle).

Well anyway, Allison threw the pea on the hill slope; the crowd shushed as she wound up her arm and threw her big, blue ball. It stuck about a foot away from the pea. Lots of oh's and ah's filled the crowd as she proudly walked to my mom who held out her hand for a high-five. Next was mine team's turn, I pushed Tara up to the throwing line. It turns out that shotput isn't the style you need, because she threw the ball and it land right next to the pea. Everyone ohed and ahed for her too, until her ball started rolling back down the hill and it landed past the starting line. "Wow!" Milton kidded "You could have dropped it right in front of the line and it still would have been a head of where you are right now." Jamie went next, it landed in front of Allison's by an inch. From what we've heard, Jamie has had an interesting background of ballroom dancing and now, apparently, bocce ball,. He moved his hand's in a little victorious motion and yelled "YES!!"

We kept playing. I threw the pea one time and it went down hill where I thought no one could hit it. Jamie said, "well that's easy," and he chucked the bocce ball at the pea and missed by an inch (now we know that Jamie has the art of chucking to). Milton tossed the ball towards the pea and it missed by a mile. "Well if it's anything to ya," Jamie said "I would give you a point for gracefulness." After a while Jamie and Eileen won and the day went on with us playing. And when it got dark, we drove back to the boat.