Vicki and Pete arrive

Boy, have we been busy having fun. Sunday, Pete and Vicki arrived for 5 days. The guys have worked together in Boilermaking and Vicki has taught me a lot about quilting while we were on jobs in Port Alberni in 2006 and Kitimat last year. We’re giving them some clues about RV life down here so we started with the ice cream social Sunday and then had free Sirloin BBQ Burgers for dinner thanks to all the crib, bocci and pool games Ron and I have won.
Monday we went down to the Pak Inn for a Chinese food buffet lunch which has 105 items. Eat your heart out Mel. Needless to say, we enjoyed.
We stopped at the Coachella Preserve on the way home, a nature park, the home of palms, desert, oasis and the three toed Lizard. There is a palm log cabin that Paul Wilhelm, a naturalist built when he settled there in 1932. The 'logs' used were dead palm tree trunks and because they were too heavy to lift, he dug a trench and stood them upright so his log cabin is vertical rather than horizontal like we are familiar with. We walked through the thick fan palm groves where the Indians used to live and get water at the 6 oasis nearby. Twenty feet away, there is only hot dry sand so it seems amazing.