MCC End of Season

We made our last trip for the season to MCC in Indio, left Tucson last Thurs (4/13) and have been enjoying beautiful weather up until yesterday when it decided to get hot (in the upper 90's). Our days consisted of a 3 mile morning walk, chores/reading, lunch, golf, after golf thirst quenching beer, boat cruise, dinner at the restaurant (tonight we will use up our balance for the year), retire then start all over again the next day.

The evenings are just fabulous and we usually went for a little boat cruise after dinner on our way back to the RV (we take the boat to go to the restaurant).

We've just been hanging out at the resort stuck in our busy schedule as I explained above until yesterday when it got hot, so decided to go up the mountain to a small town Idyllwild. We've been there before and it's a cute little mountain town, at about 20 degrees cooler than down in the valley. Of course we got there just in time to grab a burger at our favorite spot - The Saw Mill Cafe.

Jim caught me in the middle of my 1/2 lb mushroom burger.

Here is a picture of one section of the town looking towards the mountains. We walked around and browsed through all the tourist gift shops, lots of gems, minerals, jewelry and t-shirts.

Today we got everything put away and ready to leave early tomorrow morning. Won't be back until November. I'll be glad to get back to Tucson where it's a bit cooler than the 99 degrees it's at right now. Needless to say, we are watching NBA from inside our coach where it's cool.

Until our next trip - whenever and wherever it will be!

Chris's Memorial and Catchup

We enjoyed our week in Indio - the weather was great (except for a few days the wind blew a little bit too much), the golf was enjoyable (mostly) and the evening cruises were quite pleasant (except for one evening we decided to take the boat out in gale force winds - a few laughs).

Here is a turtle that lives in our waters. It doesn't look like a desert tortoise, but cute anyways.

We went to the restaurant for lunch and dinners everyday except Tues when they are closed to make a dent in the $2800 amount we need to spend. Did a pretty good job with spending $1500 of that. We didn't want restaurant food for awhile after that. But we need to go back again to finish up before April 30th when they close for the season. Our trip back to Tucson on 4/2 was uneventful just like we like it. Here we are enjoying one of our evening cruised before dinner.

While we were gone on 3/27 the Chris Moon memorial at Cherry Field in Tucson was uncovered during a ceremony, which unfortunately we missed. So Jim and I went down the Cherry Field this last Sat. to see the memorial. It is a very impressive. Here is a link to an article in the Tucson paper http://tucson.com/statue-honoring-chris-moon-a-labor-of-love/article_7318c5aa-1727-11e7-b82e-53d1f27bb746.html  I hope this link works. If you enlarge the picture below you probably can read the inscription.

 As you can see with Jim standing next to Chris' statue, it is full size. Everyone involved in this project worked many hours to see this happen. It is very well done and very impressive.

 Sunday we made a visit to the Desert Museum since it was a bit cooler to walk around. Had a nice, enjoyable time walking through all the exhibits and of course the flowering plants were the best part. I still don't know how a thorny cactus can have such beautiful flowers.

 A lot of the flowers were dried up already, but this one area was a beautiful display of different varieties. Stopped and had lunch at the restaurant enjoying a great salad before finishing up the tour around the grounds. It was a pleasant 3 hours on a Sunday morning.