Feb 5th to 8th - Desert Hot Springs

Feb 5th – Fri – Desert Hot Springs
Terry headed back to the Chevy dealer but ended up just going for a long test drive which ended with the warning lights staying off. So we decided to go grocery shopping. On the way to the store, the warning lights came on again, and stayed on, which called for a visit to the Chevy dealer. After multiple testing, test drives and warning system resets, the dealership couldn’t give us an answer to the problem other than to suggest we throw a lot of money at the entire anti-lock brake system. We know the lights come on at 55 mph and go off at 65 or after stopping so will let it go for now and see what happens.
We got some lunch, did our grocery shopping – and forgot the mandatory one item – and came back to put everything away.
We attended a dance at the park this evening. The musician from the Roadhouse (Matt Jenkins) provided the music and lots of fun audience interaction. It was BYOB which makes it a reasonably priced evening of entertainment. We even did a couple of line dances that we learned at our Thursday class. The dance ended just after 9:30 but we (L&B, us and another couple) shut down the place again and got home about 10. Matt did not take a break which really kept things going as people often start heading home at a break.

Feb 6th – Sat – Desert Hot Springs
We joined Larry & Barb to take advantage of a free pancake & ham breakfast (put on by an RV sales company) here at the park. Carried our umbrella over and used it on the way back.
Spotlight 29 casino was having a Super Bowl weekend promotion with $29 free play so we had to check it out. Don’t know exactly what happened but we both ended up with a total of $49 free play. It took until 2:30 for Terry to break even and me to end up with $40. Fun when you are playing on the casino’s money!
We stopped for a few items at a grocery store and got back in time to do some dinner prep before Claude & Val arrived for HH & dinner. Terry & Claude took their dog Tucker for a walk just before a torrential downpour. There were huge wind gusts and rain showers all evening.
Bonus! The “chocolate chip cookie fairy” showed up when we were out. Thanks, Barb.

Feb 7th – Sun – Desert Hot Springs
The weather was still unsettled today so we had a lazy morning and then headed to another casino in Palm Springs. Some roads were closed due to flooding yesterday so we had an interesting, roundabout trip.
Not so lucky in the casino today but still fun. Another detour on the way home and then we discovered that the road that was closed earlier was now open. I made some good guacamole and ate enough to spoil my appetite so had a later, leftover dinner after playing Hearts on the computer – Terry’s latest pastime.

Feb 8th – Mon – Desert Hot Springs
I thought I was on top of my blog and suddenly I have 4 days to post!!
Terry went to the pro shop and made a tee time for 1:30 today and then we asked Larry & Barb if they could join us – and they did. It was still windy last night but clear, sunny & warm today – shorts & short sleeves for golf. A good time was had by all.
Larry invited us over for happy hour and we figured it wouldn’t be late as Barb wanted to get laundry done afterwards. It was cooling off and we were thinking it was time to leave when Russ & Judy and Lynn stopped by. After a bit, I was turning into an icicle so decided to leave and Terry figured he would come with me. He wouldn’t admit it but he was cold too!
We made a trip to fill up a propane tank and to find an inner tube for my golf cart. I had to rent a pull cart today as I had a flat tire and the air leaked out almost as fast as we could pump it in. Previously, we had to search around for a tube but we were lucky today and found one at K-Mart which is not far away.
Terry had to barbeque steaks in the dark but he found his BBQ light so did fine.