Had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner at the upper clubhouse here in Catalina Spa or Catspa RV Resort on Thursday, after we watched a gorgeous parade from Macy's in New York in the morning. We had been in the pool after watching the parade. Sat with a whole big group of Canadians, most of us from BC, AB and Saskatchewan. Had very nice chats with them. One couple is going to Mexico, to Puerto Vallarta as they do every year.
Today we went into the Palm Springs area, Lary wants to join a group of men that are carving wooden birds here in the park, so we went to Home Depot and bought a Dremel tool for him, and he had to buy a flexible shaft for it as well. The bird will be a kildeer and the leader of the carving group roughed out the birds from a block of wood, using a band saw for the rough cut, for each of the participants in the group. The wood is tupelo.
After going to Home Depot/ Evil Orange as some people call it, we went on further to the College of the Desert street fair, it's normally held every weekend on Saturday and Sunday, and because it's a holiday weekend here, it was also on today. But it was quite quiet, and not too warm, which was great.
I think that a lot of people were indulging in severe retail therapy, many of the stores were advertising huge sales, and weird early opening hours like 4 AM.
We bought another sun hat for Di, a pretty vinyl carryall bag in black with bright red poppies on it, 2 shirts for Lary, a loaf of bread from a delicious bakery, and that's about it. There are incredible vendors there, socks, upmarket clothing, jewellry, housewares, gadgets, fresh fruit and veg, baked goods, food, entertainment, you name it, free parking, we even took a shuttle trolley from the parking to the shopping tents today.
Came home and Lary wanted to go and print out his boarding pass for Westjet, as he flies via Calgary to Vancouver tomorrownext day, and comes back here on Tuesday. We have the computer here, but no printer with it.
But the library was closed, so no joy on that score. Then we returned home, and he tried to choose his seats, but no joy there either. Westjet's computer system seems to be having some kind of teething trouble with a new system they have just put in.
Tomorrow he will have to do it all right at the airport, which may be very busy as it's a holiday weekend. Ouch, we hate to leave things to the last minute, but this one snuck up and bit us. He only has the flight confirmations, and that not even printed very well.
He'll renew his drivers license while he is at home, that's the purpose of the short trip, but due to Westjet's hub being in Calgary, he'll spend Saturday night in Calgary airport, then on to Vancouver on Sunday, and then he needs to catch the 5 PM ferry Monday to return to Vancouver, and stay in the airport there, to catch the early flight out on Tuesday morning back here. Luckily he can stay in our house, and use our car because the insurance doesn't expire til Nov.30th at midnight.
Wind has come up a bit here, the sunset was very pretty with pink clouds, but now at 9:30 PM it's a bit windy.
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