Tuesday evening at the Xscapers Bash was the mac & cheese fest, where participants made their favorite macaroni & cheese recipes, and others sampled them and voted on their favorite. So that was our dinner:

Afterwards, we went to the top of the bleachers to capture the post-sunset glow:

And a selfie:

After the morning seminar and visiting London Bridge (look for a post on that later), on Monday evening at the Bash, we partook of the food trucks, sampled lots of margaritas, donated and tried for the silent auction, and finished the evening with some raucous bingo.

A Mexican food truck for dinner:

Jenn donated a knitted shawl and hat that she made to the silent auction; here’s the shawl while being blocked (she didn’t bring her blocking mat in the RV, so made do with cardboard):

And the hat:

The silent auction; Jenn bid on a quilt, but was out-bid. Her items had several bids, too; the auction raised over $5k for Escapees CARE, an assistance program for members who can no longer travel:

After that was a margarita throwdown, a competition of margarita samples. Our two favorites were the winners, too:

It was a cool evening, but despite that, we availed ourselves of the ice cream truck for dessert:

We offset the ice cream with the warmth of a heater:

Then chatted with others (around another heater) while the bingo was being set up in the big tent:

Bingo starting:

They played six games, with a half-hour intermission, and hilarity from people who didn’t understand the rules (we’d never played bingo before, but picked it up easily enough):

The prize for the final game, filling all spaces, was an ebike:

Jenn was playing my and her bingo cards:

She was dangerously close to winning; just needed two more:

There were three winners (who all had the same card layout). So they decided on the final winner with a dance-off:

A busy and tiring day.

The highlight of Sunday at the Bash was the lot crawl — like a pub crawl or progressive dinner, but going from RV to RV, one section at a time. Attendees could put out food and/or beverages for others to enjoy.

First up were the party then solar sections:

Leashed cat:

We were briefly distracted by some nice-looking ebikes; something we want to get at some point:

Then it was the General 1 section’s turn — ours. So we set up our spread on our truck’s tailgate, covered with a tablecloth (mainly to hide the junk in our truck bed), since our table was too small to contain everything:

White, red, and virgin sangria, plus banana/PB/nutella and chicken enchilada pinwheel rolls:

The pinwheels seemed fairly popular; several times people came up saying they’d heard about them from others. Though we still ended up with another plate of each left over; we always over-cater, especially when we didn’t know exactly what to expect.

More scenes from in front of our rig:

After an hour, it was time to move up to the General 2 section, as it got dark:

The next day, a moment of Paladin being cute. “How you doin’?”

The Bash isn’t all entertainment, food, and drinking; there are RV-related talks, too. We attended a “Boondocking 101” seminar, since that’s something we want to try sometime; mostly stuff we already knew from prior research, but some interesting tidbits:

Finally, piles of mail by the FeMail room (with Jenn helping out, and a pile for us second-from-right):