Friday night we asked Wendy and Dave to join us for the New Year's celebration here in our park, prime rib dinner, and they said yes, so they came over here just before 6 PM and we went on up. The Savage family had cooked prime rib for 100 people and the hall was beautifully decorated too.
We were allowed to put our table service on the tables earlier in the day, and there were 2 other couples besides the 4 of us at the table. Another couple was from San Diego area, Oceanside, and they were just in the park getting their unit ready for renters coming in from Canada. They were lots of fun, Ed and Barb. The other couple was a bit more elderly, Wendy talked to them, I didn't have a chance really.
Happy Hour was 6 - 7 and then dinner was served, all the servers in tux shirts and black pants, the ladies in the same but skirts or slacks. They all looked so nice. The beef was cooked as you wished it to be, you could choose your cut, and green salad, and green beans in sauce, with a roast potato and then a fruit cobbler, yum yum.
Lary and I had volunteered to do serving dessert and cleanup, so we did, then there was a man playing a guitar, and he was quite good, tons of folks including us danced a lot. We 4 left before midnight there was quite a bit of screeching and it got to Lary, so we came home here and toasted in the New Year with champagne, and watched the celebrations in New York with Dick Clark, Ryan Seacrest and that crowd, time delay I guess.
Next day we were both super lazy, it was very cold outside and we stayed in and did very little, went out at night for Mexican dinner in Desert Hot Springs.
Today Sunday we went over to Catalina Spa for the music jam, but we hadn't signed up to play, we just listened and enjoyed the music. Then we stayed for their burgers, ate with Dave and Wendy and had a drink back at their trailer. I took down most of our Xmas decorations.
Tomorrow we're off to Desert Hot Springs to get rid of our extra end tables and two TVs that we have in the shed, they all are in fine condition but we only need one TV, and we need the space in the shed cleared out so we can get our suitcases for the cruise, coming up soon, very soon.
There is an info meeting about the cruise tomorrow over at Catalina Spa, and likely they will have our boarding passes and stuff that we need. It is a bit different going in a group, as they do the worrying for us, we just show up, load up and take off. We are delivered right to the ship in a group, which takes the pressure off us quite a bit. Some folks from our park here are going on the cruise, as are Dave and Wendy.
That's it for now. Our micro cube amps arrived already, but Annie has another idea for a personal amp that you wear. I am kind of leaning toward keeping these as they are kind of tried and true and I know how to use them sort of, whereas the Vortex system is new totally to me.
We'll see, Weds I have the beginning lesson of 4 in a drumming/percussion course I am taking at Annie's, Sharon is the leader, and then Thursday we start again with our flute classes.
We also got Tix for the Palm Springs film festival, we got 6 vouchers each, and tonight we exchanged them online for reservations for 6 shows in the next week or 10 days, it should be interesting, we are all over the map for subjects of what to see, I don't wish to see thrillers or dark stuff, but there are lots of foreign films that look very interesting.
It's down to freezing overnight now, and during the day in the low 50s or so, so pretty cold for here. Brrrrrrrr. No pool time for me at the moment the air is too chilly, even though the water is nice and warm, when you get out it's darned chilly. Don't want to catch a cold before the cruise.
We'll go to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, La Paz and Cabo San Lucas, first 2 spots we know, the second two we don't know at all. Should be interesting, and warmer, lots warmer, with luck.
It snowed up in Yucca Valley which is nearby, but higher than we are here in Palm Springs Coachella Valley area. And in Idyllwild up the mountain from us there is deep snow. Ick.
About Me
- Di and Lary
- Di and Lary are both retired, Lary was in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Air Navigator, 32 years, and Di did many things, but the most fulfilling was teaching, for 3 years on an Indian Reserve in Central BC and later 7 years teaching ESL, both in Canada and in Europe, in Spain and later Germany.