Today is Breakfast Group day. It used to be “Bike to Breakfast” but with
increases in ages plus, more importantly,3 major increases in traffic on the
streets we have to ride on to get to the breakfast restaurants, (a different
one each week), everyone drives there by car now. They have specials at the restaurants so
breakfast is not expensive, for example today there were about 6 choices, all
$6.99, add in coffee & you are still under $10.00. I went by myself because Sheila is going to a
Ladies luncheon and swim suit event. I don’t know if they have models for the
swim suits, but I don’t think so as none of the husbands were going. When Sheila comes back I am going out to see
if there is another internet company better than the one GVP provides. I’m going to investigate the internet rental
company, Spectrum, that, I’m told can put a full strength signal right to my RV
that I won’t have to share with hundreds of other users. It depends on cost of course.
Sheila’s back to share her account of the Ladies
Luncheon. H-e-r-e-s Sheila!
“It was a great luncheon!
Much more fun than the other one or two I’ve attended. The theme was swimsuits and beach wear. Glossy’s--the famous swim suit shop in Palm
Springs, had brought a large selection of their swimsuits, tops &
cover-ups, summer dresses and one type of very comfortable slip-on sandals for
luncheon attendees to try on and purchase if they wished. Swimsuits were only $29.99, (no matter what
the original price was—sometimes a hundred $ or more), sundresses & tops-
$7.99 and the sandals $8.99. The
activity room off the Billiards hall was set up as a large communal fitting
room for the ladies with 3 full length mirrors.
Doors opened at 10:00 am. As we
entered the ballroom and surrendered our $15.00
we were given 4 tickets for the door prize drawings, (there were about
20 in all!), plus 10 green tickets which we could use to play one or all 3 of
the arcade games spread around the room to earn more tickets for the door
prizes. In addition, if you wished, you
could buy 10 tickets/$5.00 for the 25/25/25/25 draw at the end of the luncheon
ie. all of the money collected was divided into 4 jackpots and then
raffled off. Since about 120 ladies
attended, I think they would have been good jackpots.
After our shopping & playing time, “Lunch
was served” by men, most of them
husbands of the ladies who planned & organized this event. Lunch was pulled pork, rice, a soft, slightly
sweet bun and the most delicious, layered iced lemon cake I’ve ever
tasted! Then came the “piece de resistance”--a
short fashion show by 5 of the men who had run the games & served the
food. They modelled some outlandish
swimming costumes which had been ‘whipped up” by some o the ladies, to humorous
commentary. The draws for the door
prizes started just before lunch and finished just after. I was lucky & won one. It came in a bag which was taped shut, but to
my delight when I opened it at my table; I found a 10 pack of mini bottles of
Fireball Whiskey with accompanying drink recipes. A great prize as far as I was concerned! It almost made up for not winning one
of the 25/25/25/25 jackpots! A great
party—great food & fun activities.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention, I bought a pair of their sandals and one of
the best fitting, most slimming & most comfortable swimsuits I’ve ever had—I
can’t wait to wear it in the pool tomorrow.
When I looked at the original price tag I just about
fainted—I paid $30.00 for a $174.00 suit!!
OK, enough of that, the master of the blog is back. OK, it’s only me. I went out & ordered the accessory part I
needed to be able to run my tire inflator pump off a 110 volt AC line. It’ll arrive in a week, so no problem. I have also been able to finally find a
refillable butane gas burner lighter, a pair for $5.00 at Hemet Trailer Supply
store. I also got a btl of Sta-Bil to
put in my gas tank so all is working out.
As it is Tuesday, this is Taco Tuesday & karaoke night at the Elks
Lodge so we are off there for supper.
The Taco’s were great as usual, only $1.50 each, plus a delicious lemon
cake for a dollar a slice. The Karaoke part was less than the usual reasonable
singing, but with some outstandingly good singers. Mostly people would do slow C.W. stuff that
didn’t have a tune and they couldn’t get the phrasing timed right. However, Sheila saw a singer from previous
years that she knew was good and asked him if he was on, he said he would put
his name, Howard, on the list plus she spoke with one of the very few other
good singers and she was due to sing again later, so we stayed. After he sang Sinatra’s “My Way”, we left and
got home about 8PM. It’s cool in the
evenings still so the furnace needs to be on. It is supposed to warm up this
week.
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