Mon Feb 11    Sunny & clear,     51F/10½C @ 9:30,     58F/14C @ 2:15

By the time I got up to the pool about 10:15, they had already split into 2 pools and were up to 8 a side, 32 people in the pool.  Sheila arrived about a half hour later.  After the usual morning routine I stayed at the Palms Cabana area to listen to the singer – Michele Murray – and have lunch. Marie Callenders Restaurant is there this week.  Sheila joined me for a few minutes before she went out to buy a new pair of water shoes.  (The sole on the pair she was given 3 yrs. ago started to delaminate.) While typing this I got an incoming call on Skype and I answered. It was an automated “warning” that my computer is not safe and I should go to a web site.  When I finally figured out how to hang up, it kept calling--5 times so far!  I’m going to shut down & see if that stops it.

It did. We got our Skype call to Michael, Adeline, Mikaela, & Erica, in fact I think it worked better than last year.  Mikaela & Erica looked especially cute because they had just come from “Family Day” in Pitt Meadows where they had their face painted.  It still stalled a bit but generally worked OK.  Then it was up to the Fun Club event.  This was a potluck, sort of organized, and a White Elephant sale of donated items, (we dumped the Zookeeper CD & a cpl other small items).  It was done silent auction style. We bid on 7 items & got 6 of them, 4 of them for only $1.00 each.  Our total was $11.50 for which we got: an electric toaster (thinner design than our previous one to take less room on the limited counter space)), a mini grinder/food processor like the little one we have at home, an electric ceramic heater, (our old one is noisy and doesn’t produce a lot of heat), a cutlery tray, a knick knack basket, and a CD of 4 Romantic movies, i.e. a bunch of Chick Flicks.  We had a fun evening; it only ran from 5 to 7:30, so we came back to the RV for our Tuesday TV shows.