Thursday we spent mostly packing for our cruise, and also packing stuff to take home. My suitcase for the cruise is growing and growing, a very bad sign, so I have already added a second smaller suitcase. Lary has a gi-normous suitcase, but it isn't really full, and he also has a garment bag.
We are heading down to San Diego on Saturday, then on Sunday we'll go to San Diego airport and find a special bus that is taking us to Ensenada, Mexico to load onto the Carnival Spirit for the Hawaii cruise. There is some kind of law in the US that says if a cruise is domestic, it has to make one foreign port I believe, so think that's why we leave from Ensenada MX.
Thursday evening we went out with Wendy and Dave, meeting up with Louise and James at Trio restaurant in downtown Palm Springs for a lovely birthday dinner for Wendy. I hadn't seen Louise since high school days, so that was a fun get together. They both taught in the Williams Lake area in the early 80s when I was also there teaching out on the reserve at Alexis Creek, but I wasn't aware they were in Williams Lake at that time. I had to buy groceries each weekend in Williams Lake, a journey of 100 km one way from my school.
The restaurant Trio seems to be just over a year old, and it was very nice, Wendy and I had salmon and risotto, then we both had lemon meringue pie. Yum. It was quite busy, in fact crazy busy, it's White Weekend here for the gay crowd, and the noise was nearly deafening. Food was terrific as was the service. The tables are quite close, and the restaurant seems to be flourishing. We drove Wendy and Dave as they are camping nearly beside us here in DHS.
Today Friday we packed and organized the house a bit more, still looks like a tornado hit it, we gave W & D our frozen food from the freezer, pity to throw out good food. Did a final laundry and went out for dinner to Jackalope, yummy, I had prime rib and Lary had ribs. Good not great service, they are very busy on Fridays and Saturdays, but we had a gift certificate as we are VIP members there, so decided to do that for our last night in the wee house here.
Likely this is the last post we will make for this season until we get home and recap the Hawaii cruise, the internet on the ship is v. expensive, and normally we don't use it. I will have to rely on Lary to keep writing his diary, then transcribe it when we get home, if not slightly before then as we journey toward home in the car.
Because of the extreme heat in this area, we have decided to put a lot of food stuff in the fridge, and keep them there with the fridge turned on, til we return in late Fall. Hope that works, we don't want to leave any fresh food in the cupboards to attract critters or bugs.
The weather is currently bizarre, we have gone from over 100 degrees down into the high 50s or low 60s, and it's cloudy and overcast, threatening rain and lots of blowing dust, too.
Because of our park model trailer being in an earthquake zone we are told to lie down all table and floor lamps before we leave, unplug appliances, and generally batten down the hatches for the shake rattle and roll that an earthquake can produce.
We are actually located almost on top of the San Andreas Fault here at our location. The palm oasis on Thousand Palms Road is possible because of the fault line, and the water being very near the surface at the fault line.
Bye for now, and thanks so much for reading thus far. We'll continue posting, but just not immediately. We have 5 sea days then 7 days cruising the Hawaiian Islands on the Carnival Spirit.
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.