Saturday was a busy one

Saturday we went to a couple of craft sales in parks, Sky Valley and Indian Waters. Didn't find anything that made us part with $, so on to the Tamale Festival in Indio. Yum yum, it's a very popular event with the Latinos here, and we mixed right in. Lary had tamales, I had other things, and we enjoyed the music of some good mariachi bands too.

Later that day we went over to Palm Springs and attended the Festival of Lights, there were over 80 entries of various styles, from illuminated floats to illuminated historic fire trucks from several different cities, ambulances lit up, riders and horses, horses pulling carts, even a horse drawn fire wagon, it was spectacular as 3 horses pulled it, and they were a matched team, lovely, and very well handled too. There was a Corvette club with all their cars heavily lit up, there were of course marching bands with majorettes, everyone wore those LED lights, some of the floats towed their own generators in little red wagons, that was really cute to see. Politicians, civic officials, princesses of all sorts, charity kitchens, but the main theme was lights, and there were thousands of them on nearly every float, and every person who marched or rode. Very pretty indeed.

It has gotten quite cold, down in the 60s during the day time and 40s at night, with wind that has come up, so watching the parade last night after dark got quite chilly indeed when the wind came flying over the mountains behind Palm Springs, and whistled along the roadway.

When the parade ended, maybe about 7:45 PM or so, we went into a nearby Chinese Restaurant, got warm again, and had a yummy Chinese dinner with jasmine tea. Most of the day was overcast, and dull. Later on in the afternoon the sun broke through a bit.

Today Sunday we just vegged, Lary went for his usual walk, then bought a Desert Sun newspaper, and we both read it, and lazed around the trailer. It was thankfully sunny, I went for a bike ride after lunch, we had ice cream at the clubhouse, then I stayed for the jam session, somewhat heavy on the religious themes again, but fun to listen to, some poetry, a lady playing the harmonica, a mellow group.

Didn't stay for hamburgers tonight at the clubhouse, ate in the trailer. A very chilly wind is blowing, making it pretty cold.

I watched a very moving movie at the Upper Clubhouse, called My Sister's Keeper, with Cameron Diaz, about a family dealing with cancer of one of their children. Bring out the kleenex, it was very touching and not too Hollywood.