~Sunny days in the desert ~

Every year we enjoy an evening at the Indio Open Air Flea Market.

Fun times in the pool!

We met Richard while playing water volleyball and have enjoyed getting to know him.  One day after volleyball he treated us all to a delcious pizza lunch - delivered right to the pool deck!! :) Thank you Richard for being so kind to us! 

Beautiful roadrunners run throughout park.

Most days from 12-1pm we join many of the other travellers for a hoppin' game of water volleyball :)

Always something spectacular to see in the desert sky! 

~Palm Springs~

Well, we are back in the desert, at the familiar Palm Springs Thousand Trails park. We have stayed at this park many times before, and we always have such a lovely stay.

We had the privilege of spending our first few days here with our dear friends Vic and Cathy. We shared so many laughs and had a great time visiting and catching up. 

We have set up our smaller tent on our site, and the kids are using it for storage. 

The sunsets are absolutely stunning in the desert! Almost every night the sky is filled with these beautiful colours and with the palm trees and rolling hills the view is breathtaking.

This year we decided to leave our trailer at home, and rent one on the property down here. Of course it's not quite like our own "home on wheels", but it's still good nonetheless. 

Here we all are playing a game one evening. 

We love to play pickleball while we are down south! We enjoy playing in the evenings when it is a bit cooler, but they also have a morning group that is fun as well :)

~Worldmark Indio~

Our past few days were spent at the beautiful Worldmark resort in Indio! What a treat!

The resort has 2 very large pool, 5 hot tubs, kiddie pools, splash pad, lazy river - where you float around on tubes, basketball courts, tennis courts , large arcade /games room, movie theatre and so much more! 

This is beautiful view from our room! There are ducks, egrets and herons in all the ponds around the park. 

We were given a $25 gift card to spend at the "Lazy River Cafe" where we all enjoyed picking out some treats :) 

Playing tennis at night 

We all got to use these "cute" stripey blue and white towels at the pool everyday.

We have absolutely LOVED staying here and will hopefully be able to come back again one day! 

~Back at it again~

Well, here we are; back on the road! We are so blessed to have this opportunity to travel down south with the whole family again. 

Leaving our beautiful island on the BC Ferries. 

We decided not to take our trailer down south this year. Our first few nights were spent in our new 8 man tent!!!! The first night, at Armitage County Park- in Oregon, was a little chilly, but nice nonetheless.

We always enjoy the amazing scenery on our drive.

Our second night was spent at Lake Minden Thousand Trails campground near Sacramento. We had the entire tent section to ourselves!

What a lovely view to wake up to! 

~Home in time for Christmas~

We had to rush home to be in time for Becky's staff and family Christmas party at Butchart Gardens.   And....what a treat it was.   The shopping, hot chocolate, cookies, carousel ride, skating rink and wonderful meal were amazing and of course the lights and decorations were incredible!!!!!!!!!!

What a wonderful way to begin this Christmas season.

Look at us all now in jeans, boots, scarves and jackets!!!  What a change from 3 days ago.

While we were walking around the wind was picking up and at around 8.30p the entire place went pitch black. All the power had gone out in the area, so everyone was left to find the main path back to the entrance in the dark. Too funny! The gardens had generators for the restaurant and for the main entrance, that came on immediately but that was the end of the evening for us!!

SO....back to our house we went ........in the dark...............to find candles, matches etc.....so we could see. What a funny way to end our fantastic holiday!!!!

~Heading Home~

We had spectacular driving days heading home - blue skies and beautiful views of Mt. Shasta!

This is Mt. Baker.

We had to get up early for our ferry ride across from Anacortes, WA to Sidney, BC.

We were all waiting for Scott to lock the trailer and come for a photo.....he never arrived!!   He went around the trailer and up to the deck thinking we were all there already :)

We always love our trip across to the island.   The views are incredible and as much as we LOVE travelling.......we are always happy to come back home to beautiful Victoria.

What an amazing trip we had!!!   SO many wonderful memories and good times together!!

~Our Final Week~

We had such a great last week.   We met some wonderful, new friends...........Rick, Jenn, Devin and Avery from Idaho.  We enjoyed visiting with them, playing pickleball, swimming, playing games and wii, going to church etc.... and getting to know them.

Our last desert sunset.

On one of the nights we all went to the movies.

The kids had fun "night" swimming.

We really enjoyed this new friendship and feel very blessed to have met you all! We hope we get to see you all again.....soon!  :)