Settling in at Desert Pools RV Park!

Jan 22 – 27, Tue – Sun ... Getting back into the routine of daily living. Dixie is going to exercise class in the park & Mike washed the motorhome. Dixie has been keeping busy doing haircuts in the park. We made a trip into Cathedral City to Trader Joes and Walmart. Our friends from Chicago came over on Thu. for dinner and cards. Danny came to dinner on Fri. On Sat. we attempted a hike that was to take us to the top of the mountain where there is a US flag (about 4 miles roundtrip but a steep climb). It starts out just across from the park. Well, we missed the trail and ended up walking a steady incline up the canyon. We found out our error over 2 miles into the trip. We backtracked and found the correct trail and started the hike over. We only made it half way as we had already been hiking for 2 hrs. It is a pretty steep climb and we figured we would tackle the full hike another day. As it was we hiked for over 4 miles (half of which was up hill).....too much since we haven’t hiked for sometime. That evening we had a houseful for dinner. Danny & Lexi came over and Doug, Fran, Levi, & Tyler arrived just after 6pm (on their big CA/Disney trip). They overnighted with us (yes that was 6 people sleeping in the motorhome!) It started raining in the evening and never quit which put a damper on our scheduled trip to Knott’s Berry Farm on Sunday. We decided to attempt it anyway so headed in about 10a. It had quit raining when we got there around noon so we went in.....well about 10 minutes later it started raining again. We rode a few rides and took in a couple of show and just when the sun came out and it quit raining, they closed the park due to another storm coming. We manage to spend about 3 hrs in the park and had fun despite the rain! Unfortunately, Mike caught some kind of flu bug on Saturday so he had to stay home! We hope to drive back in mid week to see them. We are also ready for it to stop raining and warm up a bit.