This was on display in the parking lot. The ones they use now are a different color, I don't know if there is any other difference.

This is the parking lot to go to the tram. It was a chore to walk up this incline and really downhill coming back. The picture doesn't do justice for the downgrade of the lot.

Sunday, January 28, 2012 -- Beautiful weather we are having. No wind and 77 degrees, really nice. Every once in a while we have windy weather. They will give us high wind warning when that happens. The one we had for Friday was 25 - 30 mph with gust at 60. We had those warnings on Friday. One of the towns, Desert Springs, had 90 mph winds a week ago and had a lot of damage. Sure don't want to be here during those winds.

We are traveling in most of the same places we were in last year, so not as many pictures this year. Spending time with friends we've met other years and making new ones this year. Duke and Donna will be leaving on Tuesday morning, but we will meet up again at our last resort. This is our third year of meeting up with them at different resorts. It is funny you make up your schedule send it to each other and it is always surprising when you realize you will actually be able to see them at different resorts.

We are at Desert Hot Springs earlier this year that we were last year. Enjoyed seeing the blooms on the cactus last year, but too early for them to be in bloom this year.

We have scheduled to go on a "Windmill Tour" on Tuesday. This sounds interesting.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Started the day out by taking the truck, yes I took the truck girls, only went 1/2 mile down the road. Went to get my hair cut, never quite sure what to expect by having a stranger cut your hair. This place charges $20.00 for a hair cut (trim), which includes shampoo and blow dry. I only needed a trim, but got the shampoo anyhow, I went back to trailer to do my own. Hair cut was fine.

Then we went tire shopping. Dang I hate buying tires. Bob meant to do this before leaving home, but just never got to around to doing it. Soooo we bought tires for the truck today. Shopped at Sam's and back to resort for Happy Hour.

Now to report (kids say "did we ask") the temperature today was a high of 84 degrees and beautiful sunny day. So enjoying the weather very much.

This is Cathedral City, CA. The mountain was so big looking down the street.

We are back in Desert Hot Springs, CA. We were here last year. Beautiful area. This area has numerous wind turbines. The area is prone for windy weather, except for today. We didn't have any wind to speak of, in fact the wind mills were hardly moving.