Day 49 March 3 Sunday SHEILA’S BIRTHDAY

I had a card beside Sheila’s side of the bed for her to open in the morning.  We arose to a partly cloudy day & went up for WVB.  The sun was in & out of some clouds and a breeze started up which was gusty and even though it affected the ball a lot, we kept playing till 12 o’ clock.  After the game and a short hot tub it was back to the RV to get ready to go out to Sheila’s birthday meal at Red Lobster.  We left about 1:30, picked up Larry & Judy and drove down to Red Lobster in Temecula.  We got there about 2:15.  Paul & Yvonne were already there.  We got our table and had a great time talking & eating lobster and assorted sea food dishes. It was a great meal!  Sheila brought almost ½ of hers home, it was so large—a steak, two lobster tails, a dish of chopped lobster in a sauce and green beans.  Then, she was served a free chocolate sundae with six spoons and a candle in it.  After she blew it out, we all sang her “Happy Birthday.”  Then, she passed her sundae around so everyone could have a spoonful.   Sheila got cards from Paul & Yvonne and Judy & Larry.  We finally left about 4:30, got a waitress to take our picture outside the restaurant and drove home.  We were both tired so went for a short nap.  Then just R & R at home.

Sheila at Sweet Baby Janes rib dinner with Paul & Yvonne

Pictures from Sheila's Red Lobster Dinner

Day 48 March 2 Saturday - A lazy day

Well, it rained all night so we slept in, thanks rain!  After a nice bacon & eggs breakfast I went out on errands.  I need gas in the car & money in my wallet plus assorted bits & pieces we needed.  The weather started to clear & was sunny but then a few minutes of light rain would occur, a good day to be inside relaxing.  So we did.  The temperature stayed reasonable so we didn’t need the furnace at all, we just ran the propane heater a bit.  We had grilled cheese sandwiches and Sheila’s left over soup from the Elks Dinner Dance on Friday.  The soup was called Chicken Pot Pie; it was thick & perfectly named, lots of chicken & really good.  We discovered that it is a commercially canned soup, we though it was homemade.  We will keep a lookout for it and bring some home if we find it, although it may be canned for commercial operations and sold wholesale in large quantities.

Day 47 March 1 Friday

Another nice sunny day so off to WVB this morning.  After lunch in the RV and after the morning WVB, Sheila went up to play in the 1 PM game & I went to Sweet Baby Jane’s to retrieve her glasses.  Success!  Back home to get ready for tonight.  The couple that we met on the last Taco night, (Bob & Fran Parker), had invited us to their house for a get together before going to the Elks Friday dinner dance.  They had reserved a table for us and a few of their friends.  We got there about 4:30.  It was a very nice house, not a manufactured home, (i.e. mobile home), on the edge of the Seven Hill golf course.  Sheila was delighted to get a tour of one of the Spanish style homes she admires so much as we drive past large areas of them on our comings & goings about Hemet.  At the get-together we met their friends.  We were the only Canadians, but there was one couple from Seattle & another from Oregon, the others, like our hosts, lived in the Seven Hills area of Hemet permanently.  Several of them had been or were RV’ers and had/or owned boats so, lots in common to talk about.  After about an hour & a half of chatting & nibblies we headed off to the Elks for the dinner dance with “Ambrose”.  He is a singer who uses recorded music from his computer piped through speakers. He must have a very good system because it sounded just as if a group of live musicians were playing, to me at least, and he has a very good voice—terrific range.  I had my usual 16 oz steak cooked rare with baked potato and some very nice green beans, & it comes with one trip through the salad bar.  All for $16.00, you can’t beat that!  I have it whenever we go to the dinner dance.  Sheila decided to try the unlimited Soup & Salad Bar for $10.00.  After one very large bowl of thick, delicious Chicken Pot Pie soup and two medium-sized plates of salad, she was full.  We had a nice evening, talking & dancing. We left when it ended at 9:30 pm, so got home about 9:45.                                                                                                          Being that today is March 1, I looked ahead at what we have going this month.  Beside the almost daily game events going on in the evenings, first, we have Sheila’s Birthday Dinner at Red Lobster down in Temecula on March 3, then we have on March 6 at GVP the concert, Stone Soul, Classic Soul & Motown, then on the 9^th at the Historic Hemet theatre a tribute to John Denver, then the next day, the 10^th, our Water Volleyball season end dinner, (some people have been here since November and head home in late March although the WVB games keep going).  Then the very next day is GVP’s St Patty’s Day event & corn beef dinner. Plus there is another Spud Night coming up the second week of March.  All that is in addition to what we do every day here plus movies, eating out etc. 

Day 46 Feb 28 Thursday

The forecast for today was cloudy with showers. When we got up, there was a bit of overcast which cleared by mid morning into a nice sunny, warm day.  We had a good WVB game and then back for lunch in the rig.  Sheila went out for her nails redo appointment she couldn’t do yesterday.  Then she is going back to the 99 cent store to see if she can find the cartons of milk she found yesterday. They are just 1 quart (US) cartons but have been processed to last for months if unopened, (opened you must refrigerate them).  They would be ideal for the RV, we could carry several cartons & not have to jam them in the fridge, open one & then put it in the fridge.  I was tired so I napped in the afternoon for a couple hours.  Sheila arrived back with a bunch of groceries including the long lasting milk. The carton says that it’ll keep “several months without refrigeration”; they certainly sound ideal for RVing.  Tonight, for the start of Sheila’s birthday celebrations, we are off to “Sweet Baby Jane’s” a restaurant that specializes in ribs.    I & Yvonne had Ribs, Paul got a steak and they cooked it right – rare, it was just to his liking.  Sheila had BBQ Pulled Pork and Beef brisket with fresh baked cornbread & sweet cinnamon butter—Paul & Yvonne’s treat, and then the waitress brought out a birthday cake for Sheila that Paul & Yvonne had bought & smuggled into the restaurant, so it was a nice surprise for Sheila. Other than Sheila leaving her glasses there it was a very nice evening. 

Day 45 Feb 27 Wednesday

It was a bit cloudy & overcast when I first got up but cleared fast so I went up for WVB.  Sheila came later, like she usually does, but ended up in the other pool as usual!  The day developed into a nice sunny day. After lunch I stayed around the RV & puttered around, sitting in the sun and other worthwhile projects!  Sheila went out to get the CDN flag on her finger nail fixed, but they were too busy, so she made an appointment for tomorrow at a different shop, then, just picked up some 99 Cent Store stuff & came home.  We had supper, part of which was a Winco BBQ’d chicken that weighed 1 lb 13 oz & cost $4.98, what a bargain! Then we got ready to go out to Hemet West Mobile Home Park for their ‘Jump, Jive & Rock’ dance with a band called, “The E-klectics”.  A couple we met at the GVP Spud Night event, Frank & Janet, picked us up as they wanted to go but didn’t know where it was.  So rather than take 2 cars they offered to pick us up & we gave them directions.  The dance was a lot of fun. They played lots of great 50’s etc music--we danced a lot.  Frank & Janet really enjoyed it too and thanked us for telling them about it.  We returned home to the RV for a bit of TV & bedtime.  We were both really tired after our strenuous day of fun!