Marine Corps Christmas Concert last night

We went to the Marine Corps Band concert last night, it was really good, they have a base nearby at 29 Palms, and it was a free concert, with 3,000 attendees. Wow, all you had to take was a donation for the Food Bank, or a toy.
Their uniforms are different, the tops are black, and the pants are blue, and they mostly had kind of buzzed off haircuts. Music was incredible, and loud too. They did lots of medleys where each song ran into the next one, and were connected, very interesting how they do that.

Before the concert we ate at Spa Resort Casino, a steak and lobster dinner for $19.99 each, with a huge buffet. Yum yum. They cooked the lobster tail/ at least heated it up on the grill/in front of you, great service.

We saw lots of folks from our park, and sat in front of another couple from......Nanaimo. Go figure. They were very nice, full timers, they live in Living Forest when they are in BC during the summer, and are at Sands which is a golf course RV complex, just down the road from us, during the winter. Her name is Barb.

It was a lovely evening.

In the afternoon we went into the RV show at the Fairgrounds in Indio, but there weren't that many rigs to view. We toured a 2005 Southwind 32V gas motorhome coach, it was about $79,000 with about 15,000 miles on it. Hmmmm.

But Di was very taken with a Cameo 5th wheel, it was a 2010 model, 32 feet, it was kind of like going into Jean and Roy's unit, although a bit smaller, one whole side which was the kitchen and bedroom combined, moved out on one slide. And there was one other slide in the living room area. It had a table and chairs, and then there were 2 sofas, one beside the table and chairs, and the other at the end of the trailer. Pretty nice setup, and nice quality finishing.

It was quite a bit heavier than our trailer, but I loved it. When you went up the stairs toward the bedroom, the bathroom was right there on the right side. It was priced about $58,000. Most of the units there were very reduced in price, though most of the coaches were the huge ones, around 40 feet or so, and of course diesels were more expensive than gas. One of the first questions that we got asked is "How much financing is left on your unit?" When we said none, they seemed surprised.

An interesting thing was that we found there is a repair facility near to us here, not that far away, so we may take our trailer and have it repaired. One of the salesmen told us that no matter what unit you have, there are always small repairs needed. Guess that keeps the dealers happy.

A lot of the dealers in the valley have gone out of business, you even see car lots that are closed and empty. It is very sobering down here, and the pain has not ended either, you hear about tons of people still losing their houses, and apparently there are about 1.5 million people unemployed in California alone. And there is some sort of snafu with their social welfare computer system, so many of those folks won't be getting their cheque in time for Xmas.

Cousin Jen from Dana Point is coming into P.S. toward the end of December, so we will get together for dinner with her.

Lary and I are going into Eisenhower Medical Center for him to have a blood test done today, as a followup to his treatment. While we were in the medical clinic we saw that they had both Pneumonia Vaccine and Shingles Vaccine shots available. Very interesting.