Since Christmas we celebrated Lary's birthday with a Happy Hour outside on our back patio, 2 couples invited over, and we had a bit of a music thing going on out there, which was fun. Flutes, which Carol has expressed an interest in. I had a bunch of appies we had bought at Trader Joe's so that worked well, I doubt that anyone ate dinner afterwards, no need.
Once it got chilly we put down our windscreen/sunscreen and cranked up the patio heater, the days continue lovely and warm in the mid 70s, but the nights cool off pretty quickly now.
Our friends Katie and Grant have arrived from Oliver, BC and are camped across the road from us at Caliente Springs park, so we also visited them one evening, and had a long happy hour get together, tons of fun to visit together once more. They have a travel trailer and will stay quite a while, so really looking forward to further visits together, we'll take them to a flute evening with us this Friday.
For New Year's our park held a prime rib dinner, with shrimp cocktails to start, Caesar salad and cheesecake to finish. Dancing later to the duo of Remember When, perhaps one of their last gigs as they are to retire soon, they are super popular with the dancing crowd.
We decorated the clubhouse with New Years stuff Dec. 30th, then on Dec 31st were involved with quite a lot of the food prep, Lary and I made up 100 shrimp cocktails, and then enjoyed ourselves at the dinner with friends at the table, Carol and Dan, Rita and John, Helen and Russ, Randa and Raymond. Several couples were waiters at the event, and our dinners were served to us, with our choice of how we wanted the meat cooked, a lovely change from our usual buffet style dinners.
All the waiters and waitresses were in black and white, the ladies had really cute black aprons with lacy trim.
We made it to New Year's Eve midnight, celebrated duly, and then fell into bed, as we had to rise and shine (?.....) at 9 AM for cleanup next morning. I felt a bit sluggish today, then we realized that Wendy and Dave were cooking their Xmas turkey, and we were invited over there. Their relatives Ann and Ron were visiting from Victoria, so we were 6 for dinner, Happy Hour was outside on their patio, but it was getting chilly as the sun went behind Mt San Jacinto just around 4 PM. Yummy turkey and trimmings, thanks a lot Wendy and Dave. Great to see Ann and Ron and have time to visit with everybody.
We have booked ourselves 10 movies at the Palm Springs International Film Festival starting Jan 3rd, should be very interesting, we have a real mixed bag of things to see. There are over 450 screenings of 180 films, from over 59 countries, and we'll see "soup to nuts". What fun to be living right in a film festival town. Many, many varied categories to choose from, too.
The weather continues to be well above seasonal norms with temps during the daytime in the mid 70s, which is a real treat. There seems to be no snow apparent on Mt San Jacinto as yet, or on the other local mountains, such a treat as so many other places are shivering in the wintry blasts. Once that snow arrives on the tops of the local mountains, it gets really chilly down here on the valley floor.
Hamilton, Ontario where Lary's Mom and sister live is very chilly, with a really nasty cold this year for them all. Even our friends from home are saying they wish they had come south this winter instead of staying home.
Bye for now. Thanks for visiting our blog.
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