March 2017

 Spring is definitely here!

Baseball – the spring flowers
and beautiful weather….

We took 5 days and went over to Spring Baseball Training
in Phoenix….. the Cactus League.

Four great games at three different fields.

These are very professional fields – just on a smaller scale.
Professional baseball teams up close.

These are the three couples that went with us.

We had so much fun.

We took a drive down to Borrego Springs
just to see the wild flowers. 
This field is normally totally brown.  This year is a Super Bloom!

Mike’s cousin from Colorado just happened to be in town
and went with us on our day trip.

The ocotillos are all green but no blooms at this time.

Our Topless (convertible) group drove to
Whitewater Preserve.  What a neat place.
This is Desert X – individual art projects located
throughout the desert.

At Whitewater Preserve, the flowers were also in bloom,
like sunshine all over the hills.

Later in the month, we went on the most beautiful
Jeep run.  There was a small amount of hill climbing.
Mike leads these trails and we were on the top waiting for the rest to come up.

Now later in the month, the flowers were over the top…
and the ocotillos were all in bloom.

The flowers were lining our trail.

An incredible sight!
Right along the Jeep trail Mike spotted two
Desert Tortoises.  It is very rare to see any of these beautiful
fellas- they are rare.

We finished the month with our “End of the Year Party”
Great food, wonderful friends, outstanding entertainment -
an awesome evening!

Here in Outdoor Resorts, the cactus are in bloom
and the weather is fantastic.

Or we could be on our lot in Sunriver.

Let me think, should we stay here or head north?

February 2017

 We’ve had a busy month!

Cooler weather shows up in snow on the hills
surrounding the Coachella Valley

Mike’s 70^th birthday!

We celebrated with friends Mike & Carol Dutra

Mike Dutra’s 70 birthday was just a day before my Mikes.

We drove over to Temecula and went on a “Beer Tasting Tour”

It was really fun – party bus and all!

We spent the night in Temecula – then back home.

Our “Topless Club” took a very interesting trip
over to March Air Force Base near Riverside. 
Our docent was in his 90’s and just as sharp as a tack. 
Great tour!

We took five days and traveled over to Las Vegas.
Mike’s brother and his wife met us there.
This picture is of the Fremont Experience. 
A beautiful light show.

While in Las Vegas, we met up with Brandon, Karen, Ben & Anna.
They were in Las Vegas for a gymnastics tournament.

3,500 girls all competing….each girl competes with others in her
gymnastics level and also in her age group.

Anna is a level 7 and she is 11 years old.

Of course the guys had to check out this NASCAR.

Pat & Rollie took  time from their home remodel
to come over to Las Vegas to watch Anna’s competition.

Anna was amazing.  This is one of her jumps while
on the beam .....she does flips on the beam too!

What a champ!  Anna got second with her floor exercise,
fourth on the beam and fifth overall.
Her team from Vancouver also got first!

Check out all those medals Anna has!

The Bellagio fountains were beautiful!

It was so great seeing the kids!

Mike had some surgery on his hand. 
He had two trigger fingers and a trigger thumb repaired. 
Everything is working great now.  

Later in the month, we had our “Topless Overnighter”
This year, Mike & I along with John & Sharon O’Connor

were the hosts.  We all had so much fun!
We spent our first night in Laughlin, Nevada.

We drove over to Oatman, AZ… a little western town.

In Oatman, the wild burro’s walk the streets
looking for food.  They aren’t afraid at all of the people.

We spent our second night at the Blue Water Casino in Parker.

We had a ladies luncheon at Desert Willow.

It was so much fun.  We had a total of 15 gals and a great lunch!