What a week this has been! I know I won't remember all the details as it has been a blur!
We left Mesa about 8:30 Saturday morning and stopped at a truck stop somewhere in the desert for a less than delicious lunch. We arrived at our condo in Palm Springs--Vista Mirage, 400 S. Hermosa Dr., and after getting settled in we headed for the grocery store to stock up on essentials. We stayed in this same resort 2 years ago; it is very comfy with 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, dining area, living room, pool and all the amenities of resort life. We had to be at our cousins' St. Patrict's Day party in Cathedral City by 5:30 so we didn't have any down time that day. It was so good to see Mona, Pete, Nadine and Judie again. This is the 4th year we've been able to visit them. We finished off the evening at Nadine's for more stories about our growing up years and lots of laughs!
Sunday we had a leisurely morning and spent the afternoon visiting Audrey. She is always so interested in hearing about our latest adventures. That evening we stopped and picked up a cooked chicken and made a salad and strawberries dipped in chocolate for dessert...pretty fancy dinner for us! We played rummy pretty late that night.
Monday we walked into Palm Springs shopping area downtown...it was a LONG walk! When we got back, Gary N headed for the pool and the rest of us stayed in the condo as it was pretty cool that day. Phyllis, Gary N & I went to Audrey's for coffee that afternoon. Monday night Judie and Nadine took us to the Chinese buffet for dinner and we visited at Judie's afterwards. Of course there was card playing when we got home!
Tuesday it was warm enough for us to head to the pool after our walk. Phyllis & I played a few games of Bananagrams pool side so we soaked up quite a bit of sun. We had coffee with Audrey after our swim. We dashed downtown PS to meet Cal & Julie for lunch at the Kaiser Grill. After lunch, we decided to follow them to El Paseo Drive to people watch at the Starbucks there. We were able to get a great table outside. Julie, Phyllis & I decided we needed to wander around to some of the high-end stores and we found ourselves in Sacs 5th Avenue...fortunately, they had a team of hair care people who were just ready to start a demo on their hair care products so next thing we knew Julie was signing us up for the demo...the clincher was when they told us we would be served champagne. They also did individual consults with us about what our hair needed to make it look better. Mine is so short that they didn't have many suggestions for me! However, we each purchased products and because they made a mistake on Phyllis' order, they gave each of us a lovely scarf that was supposed to be a bonus for only those who spent $100 or more so we felt like we really got our money's worth. Before exiting the store, we browsed around the shoe dept eying the $500 sandals and the 6" (or more) $8-900 stilettos! We didn't dare start trying those on. When we got home, Gary N had prepared a lovely dinner of chicken tostados and salad and we played lots of games of rummy again that night.
Wednesday was the day that Phyllis & I found out we had strong hearts! We spent about 1 1/2 hours at the pool. Upon returning to our condo, to our horror, we discovered the door was open and that it had been completely emptied out...everything we owned was gone...all our jewelry,clothes, wallets, food...there wasn't anything left! We raced down to the pool SCREAMING at Gary Newman that we had been robbed. I was hysterical as I wailed we had lost everything, everything...our money, or jewelry, etc! People at the pool all heard us and went scrambling to their units to see if they too had been robbed. Gary N went to the office to report the robbery and Phyllis and I returned to our room feeling terrified...Gary W was not in the unit as he had gone to the garage to move the car so he didn't even know anything had happened. We had no clothes except our swimming suits and cover-ups! As we rounded the corner to our unit, it occurred to us that just maybe we had been in the wrong unit. They all look exactly alike...so we raced up the steps to unit 418...put our key in the door and to our great joy found everything intact. However, by this time, Gary N was in the office reporting the theft and the gal on duty was telling him nothing like this had ever happened and she didn't know what to do...he said, "well, call 911 or call the police...do something!" About that time I rushed in to admit that all the screaming and crying was for naught as we had returned to the wrong room. She was so relieved she almost jumped over the desk and hugged me! I was a wreck and so was Phyllis! Besides the emotional strain we had just been through, now we didn't think we would want to return to the pool and be recognized by all the guests who had seen our little outburst! Gary had to go to the pool to tell everyone about our mistake. We considered dying our hair and getting new bathing suits before showing up at the pool again. That evening we had the cousins here for pizza, salad, and cheesecake with birthday candles for Nadine. They loved hearing about our fiasco! We played more cards after they left that night. What an exhausting day!
Thursday we felt too sheepish to return to the pool so after a short morning walk, we called Audrey to see if we could head to her condo and use her pool that afternoon. It was pretty hot in the sun that day. After a short swim, we helped Audrey bake some cookies. That night Pete & Mona entertained us at their unit for more good food, beverages and great stories! Once again we had to play a few hands of cards when we got home. That had become our routine!
Friday morning Phyllis and I decided that we dared appear at the pool again. We picked a table in a corner and tried to stay low-key and hoped that most people had left that we there on Wednesday. However, to our embarrassment, the lady sitting near our table started visiting with us and after a few minutes of small talk she said out of the clear blue, "You should see my daughter imitate you two from the other day...she's really good at it!" Damn! To think our story is being re-enacted by a 9 year old and probably many others that saw us that day! While we were sitting at our table with this friendly lady, I got bit by a hornet or wasp...it was very painful and my arm started to swell and turn red. I iced it, read the first-aid on Google and did what was suggested. We were due to visit Julie & Cal Nestibo (wintering here in an RV part) that afternoon so I decided to wait and watch my bite before seeing a doctor. After our visit, however, it appeared that I needed to see a doctor so off to the Eisenhower Urgent Care facility I went about 6:30 p.m. I didn't have to wait long to see a doctor and he told me I had done all the right things but added a course of prednisone to help with swelling. Whew! I was glad it wasn't any more serious than that! We made dinner with our left-overs that night and played a game of round rummy before collapsing in bed!
Saturday morning we were up about 6:30 and ready to head to the swap meet at College of the Desert. We tromped around there for at least 3 hours, visited with our cousins briefly and then stopped at Macy's as Phyllis was trying to find a new dress...no luck there so we came home starved and had more left-overs for lunch!
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