Mar 14th to 16th - Desert Hot Springs

Mar 14th – Sun – Desert Hot Springs
We played golf this morning with Moe & Trish. The weather was perfect and a few shots came close to perfect.
Terry & Moe had both won $50 gift certificates to the Cheesecake Factory so we used them today. Unlike its name, the Cheesecake Factory is also a nice restaurant and is located at The River in Rancho Mirage. We sat outside with a view of a pond and had a great lunch. We all barely had room to share 2 desserts and Terry even brought some home.
This evening there was a pie & ice cream social (pass!!) before a talent show. The show mostly showcases tap dancers from the park with “acts” in between to let them change and catch their breath. Our line dance class provided one of the “breaks” and I danced with 9 others including our instructors. Couldn’t persuade Terry to join us! It was a fun event.

Mar 15th – Mon – Desert Hot Springs
We were walking the park this morning and saw Moe replacing carpeting on the porch of the park model that he is renting. He was vacuuming the carpet and a thread caught in the vacuum and pulled a large hole. He felt obliged to fix it and had purchased the new “grassy” type carpet. We felt sorry for him struggling with crummy tools so we went home and got some tools and then spent a couple of hours helping him with the job. And a good job we did, if I do say so myself!
We had time to shower and head to Cliff & Pauline’s for happy hour at 4. At 5:30, we all headed across the wash for dinner at Gilbert & Grace’s. There ended up being 22 people there and required 3 buddy burners so we could all sit around and enjoy them.

Mar 16th – Tues – Desert Hot Springs
I got to enjoy coffee & a book outside in the morning sun – love it! Then we rode our bikes on a few errands around the park. We went to Cliff & Pauline’s to help move files from their old computer to a new one. Being a firm believer in Picasa, I also had to load that on the new computer and give them a quick lesson. Pauline made us chef salads for lunch – served outdoors of course.
When we got back, we realized that we had waited too long to send our granddaughter a birthday card so we made a quick trip to the post office. Then we packed up Terry’s Scotch (not many people stock it in their rigs) and rode our bikes to Wayne & Joyce’s for dinner.
After a great dinner – cooked very ably by (mostly) Wayne on the BBQ – we went inside and played 10,000 which is a dice game. We have played it before but with different rules. I made a quick trip to get our rules and we played one game with our rules and one with theirs. They were both really fun but more fun for Joyce since she won both games.