Jim, we miss you!!

Here's a welcome home picture!!! We missed you the moment you left. I waited on the balconey but didn't see you leave. Next year ..........????!!!!!

It's a busy time of year!!

Wow, we have been so busy since I last blogged. March is always our busiest month but this March has been exeptional. Recession? What recession???? We have been full all weekend, tonight and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday) and all lovely people. Oh, one grouch but that's all. Everyone getting along, chatting, laughing and room hopping!! What kind of joint do they think this is??????

Guests in from Canada, England, Scotland, Dallas, Chicago, Arlington Virginia, Omaha Nebraska not to mention a splattering of guests from California!!!!!

I had a dental appointment yesterday, yes, Saturday! One small filling and a temporary crown over the tooth I broke last July in San Francisco. I was telling one of our day visitors that I had a crown put in. He said, 'Oh, I don't like crowns' Quick as a flash with no hestation whatsoever, Stuart came back and said 'What, an old queen like you doesn't like crowns"  How we laughed!!!!

Tony goes to Yucca!!!

We gave a party last night to say farewell to our friends Tony and John. After many years of being our neighbours they finally decided to jump ship and go and live in Yucca. We are still trying to figure out why!!!

Here's a picture of Tony with our friend Jim and on the right are Mike and John, (you know, the Proff and bon vivant).
Between Stuart, Jim and myself, we cooked up a storm!!!! Jim made ribs and chicken wings (delich). I made Ina Gartens Hummus and her rum raisin rice pudding!!!!! You all need to try that. Stuart made coleslaw and Ina's chopped liver and Paul supplied a wonderful potato salad. Yumo. Not to mention my lemon bars to help the rice pudding go down. It was a lovely evening but very cold, we had to put the heaters on. It is only March after all. We thought there would be tons of food left over but it seems we got it right.

Also making an appearance were Dennis, AJ, Peter, Jim and Jim (3 Jims altogether). John, Tony's other half. guests from the hotel, Scotty and  Don.

Tonight, (Thurday) 90% full!!!!!!!!!

LOBOC See Post 11/19/2010

Well, I promised more information about LOBOC, that is the Long Beach and Orange County m/c club. As I mentioned, we have been the host hotel for LOBOC since 2002. Before they left last year, they made reservations for this year, 2011. Without any warning we were dropped in favour of another hotel close by. To say we were disappointed is a real understatement of how we felt when we found out. Nobody called us, nobody came round to tell us and this is a group we have bent over backwards to accomodate for what would have been their 10th year. We turned away prospective guests because we were 'full', about 40 nights were lost because we believed we were still hosting the event. One of the members did eventually drop by. Apparently no-one wanted to tell us because the hotel (alright, it's Helios), is for sale and they were hedging their bets incase the hotel was sold and the new owners wouldn't honour the bookings!!! We know who is behind it all because he has made no bones about preferring Helios to us because "they have vegetation" 
The event was supposed to be this weekend and we heard they have cancelled on Helios at very short notice. We don't know why yet but I can't imagine the Helios boys being too pleased. I guess they have burnt both bridges now. Where will you stay next year, huh? Warning all Palm Springs hoteliers .... watch out and make sure you get a sizable (non-refundable) deposit. Anyway, we were full this weekend and were able to take people wanting to stay for longer than a weekend so we ended up MUCH better off!

St Patricks Day

Mike and John (you know, the Professor and the bon vivant) invited us to their St Patricks day party at their expansive estate in North Palm Springs. Lovely and loads of food. Corned beef, cabbage and other lovely stuff! In attendance were ... Stuart and myself, Jim from Minneapolis, Bob and Harry, Tony and John (more about them later .. thay are moving to Yucca! Yes, there is a place called Yucca). Jim (the other Jim) who is very excited about his new job delivering stuff to old people on Medicare. Cathetars anyone?? Many many other people who's names escape me. More later .... I havn't mention LOBOC yet ........

Moving on ....

We continue to be delighted with our new landscaping and here's a picture of something with flowers!!! My Grandmother collected cacti for years, gathering dust on her window sill. Nothing ever flowered not to mention they never grew a spit, (this is England we are talking about!) She would be thrilled to see this.

Still here!!

Despite not posting since February 19th, we're still here. Having been chastised by our friend Jim from 'the Cities' on numerable occasions during the last week I have decided to bring you up to date but where to begin?? I think starting from today and working back .....

Today, Friday March 18th we are one of the host hotels for Chubfest and you can check that out on http://www.chubsrule.com/ we have a full house and it is a very busy month for us. March usually is. Apart from Jim from Minneapolis, we have Don  from Toronto back again for 33 days and international guests from Edinburgh and London but most of our guests this weekend are from California, (San Diego, Vallejo, Long Beach, Simi Valley) but also from Illinoise and Colorado. Promises to be a lovely weekend weather wise.