We had planned to take in the 'all you can drink champagne brunch' at the local casino but with nobody else interested, give it a miss in favor of a lazy start, grease fix camping breakfast of cheese croissants with bacon. Ahh the arteries are screaming...but tastes so good out there in the open.
We woke to rain pattering and although the tarmac was wet, it soon dried up and was sunny and 22 by afternoon.
There's an 8-hour difference from here to London so at 8am I do Facetime with my big sis Liz to find out how Clive has fared with his knee replacement. We have a chatty time and pleased to see Clive dressed sitting up reading in the living room. Surgery Tuesday, home Friday and doing well, not bad for an 80+-year old. No walker, no crutches, just two canes and doing the steep stairs to their bedroom 3 times today! Whew. Good going.
We set off for town, about 20km south, and in fact Palm Springs is a conglomerate of several towns all joined together. Some beautiful palm lined avenues and flowers everywhere, what a change from Calgary where big snowflakes are still falling.
I get in touch with several friends here and in Phoenix to plan some visits with them in the next week or so. It seems there are still a bunch of Canadians down here despite the dollar differential.
Ted is delighted to find his Total Wine, an amazing store with about 6000 bottles for his perusal. We pick up a case of 6 to get a 10 discount, including our favorite New Mexico champagne from Gruet. And some good prices on Monbazillac too.
We still can't figure out the cable TV system, so follow some of the Oscar ceremony on wifi. Hilarious, they announced the wrong winner for best film! We havent't seen any of them...But lots of interesting digs at their new president, who hasn't tweeted his displeasure alll evening yet and fired the whole movie business...hahaha
We woke to rain pattering and although the tarmac was wet, it soon dried up and was sunny and 22 by afternoon.
There's an 8-hour difference from here to London so at 8am I do Facetime with my big sis Liz to find out how Clive has fared with his knee replacement. We have a chatty time and pleased to see Clive dressed sitting up reading in the living room. Surgery Tuesday, home Friday and doing well, not bad for an 80+-year old. No walker, no crutches, just two canes and doing the steep stairs to their bedroom 3 times today! Whew. Good going.
We set off for town, about 20km south, and in fact Palm Springs is a conglomerate of several towns all joined together. Some beautiful palm lined avenues and flowers everywhere, what a change from Calgary where big snowflakes are still falling.
I get in touch with several friends here and in Phoenix to plan some visits with them in the next week or so. It seems there are still a bunch of Canadians down here despite the dollar differential.
Ted is delighted to find his Total Wine, an amazing store with about 6000 bottles for his perusal. We pick up a case of 6 to get a 10 discount, including our favorite New Mexico champagne from Gruet. And some good prices on Monbazillac too.
We still can't figure out the cable TV system, so follow some of the Oscar ceremony on wifi. Hilarious, they announced the wrong winner for best film! We havent't seen any of them...But lots of interesting digs at their new president, who hasn't tweeted his displeasure alll evening yet and fired the whole movie business...hahaha
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