December
1 - 15...Since
we were carless we spent Sunday hanging out. Dixie did a couple of
haircuts. At 730a on Monday Danny came back over to our park to pick
us up. We dropped him at work and did some shopping. We also went
to Ross's condo and checked out the cleaning and took the remaining
items out. Guess what???? The car was not ready...there was
something broke on the crank case of the new used transmission and
they had to take the part off our transmission.... We picked Danny
up at work and he drove us back to our park once again! The next day
our friends Glenn and Henrietta took us to the car shop to pick up
the car. We made a WinCo stop and then back to the motorhome...all
seems to works well with the car. Of course it cost more than the
original quote ~ $1400 and something! Dixie did a few haircuts this
week. Also put some jewelry items in the craft sale at the clubhouse...even sold a couple of things this week!
Friday
the 6th
we drove into Palm Springs and hiked the 'Araby Trail'. It was a 1.5
hr hike up 800 ft. It took us to the back of Bob Hope's estate. The
houses along the way were quite beautiful and the view of the valley
was terrific. After the hike we shopped a bit and then met Danny for
a drink at Smiddy's and then across the street to use our Red Lobster
gift cards (thanks Doug/Fran).
Saturday
afternoon Dixie went to Danny's to babysit Lexi while he went to his
Christmas party in Beverly Hills. Dixie cleaned Danny's house and
worked on learning her new 11.6 inch Asus computer. We had it, as
well as an external DVD drive shipped to Danny's so he got it all
set. It's a bit of a learning curve due to Windows 8.
Danny
got back around noon on Sunday. Mike moved the motorhome from Desert
Pools to Indian Waters RV in Indio where we will be for the next
week. It's was also Dad's 80th
Birthday...we will celebrate once we get to Lake Havasu City next
Sunday.
On
Monday we drove to Riverside for Uncle Don's memorial service. It
was held at their church...Hope Lutheran at 11am. It was a very nice
service and lunch. Cousin Bob & Paula from FL were there as
well. We went to Aunt Marge's afterwords and visited.
On
Tue. The 10th
Dixie finished up some Christmas shopping. She also did a few
haircuts at this park.
On
Thurs. evening we met Jeff & Jewel, friends from our RV group
back in MT, at the Cliffhouse in La Quinta. They live in Rancho
Mirage in the winter. We had a nice time visiting and enjoyed some
fish tacos.
Friday
we worked on computer stuff! Dixie went online and completed a
lengthy application for health care. Yuk!! Did get signed up with a
little credit toward the monthly so hopefully it will go through.
Later we went up to the clubhouse patio and attended a happy hour of
people from the park. There was a little music and snacks. We had a
good time visiting and catching up with people from past years.
Saturday
morning we went to the Street Fair at the College of the Desert. We
made a few purchases of course. That evening Danny went with us to
dinner at Chef George's! From there we made a stop at Hamilton's
Sport's Bar.
Sunday
it was time to leave the Coachella Valley! We weren't quite ready
but we had to get to our reservation for the next month in Lake
Havasu City, AZ with Dad. Hopefully we will get back yet this
season. The trip today is 175 miles. We made a stop in Parker, AZ
for fuel and tried to get propane but there was no one available to
fill us. We arrived around 3pm We are in site B31 ~ not too far
from Dad's park model. We had some problems with our electric so we
didn't hook up....50amp gave us a ground fault error and 30 amp was
weak.
