Back Online- with a new computer, yippee

HI All,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our friends. We got a worm/virus in our computer, so it ate up some of the computer innards, and we had to ditch it, and buy a new one. It was from 2003 or so, quite old.
The new one is faster, way faster, and we bought a wide screen one too, we might even watch DVDs on it.
It was a somewhat slow process to get the new one up and running, but today we got the new one, and hooray, we are now in the timeshare suite, and using it there. Whoopee.

Of course lots of emails and news to catch up, and thanks so much everybody for sending us the super Christmas cards/ birthday cards both at our RV park, and on the computer. It is grand, and means so very much to us while we are away from home.

Speaking of home, I plan to go home to Nanaimo for sister Sue's birthday, she will be 60 on Jan. 14th, so that should be a very happy time for us all together once again.

Sue and Jen are coming down to babysit our trailer while we go off to Costa Rica March 11th til 18th, and then they will stay on for a few more days with us.

Today Lary and I had a private architecture tour of the many different styles of houses built here in the Palm Springs area. Of course we know our way around, but this tour was with the concierge of our hotel, and he was so very knowledgable. We drove all around up and down the hills and the neighbourhoods, and the periods of buildings from the 1920s to the 50s and 60s.

Such differing styles, including some blgs made of steel. There is a lot of vegetation on some of those bigger lots, and we saw homes of the rich and famous of varying eras. Saw estates belonging to Cher and Barry Manilow, as well as a house that was Frank Sinatra's. Many of the houses you can't really see that much from the street, but we would never have found them by ourselves in the truck. The tour was 3 hours, and we learned a lot. Saw hotels, commercial buildings, and many houses that had belonged to movie stars/ industry moguls through the eras.
We actually got into the back yard of the house where Frank Sinatra had lived, it was so pretty with a lovely pool and enclosed back yard area.

So informative, we had been wanting to do that for a long long time, and it was so worthwhile, especially with our tour guide.

For my birthday we went out to eat at Tony Roma's, ribs. Yum yum. And for Lary's birthday we will be meeting my American cousin Jenn from Dana Point, CA. Should be fun as we'll meet in downtown Palm Springs for dinner.

Bye for now, and hope that you have wonderful holidays with your families and loved ones.