There was no softball game this weekend, just practice, and we need it. We still need it. I think I mentioned this before, but one of the great things about this league is that all the games are an hour long, so not too much strain. Or so I thought. I found out yesterday that next Sunday we have three games! At 4, 5 and 7pm. Yikes!! Fortunately we have an hour between 6 and 7 for me to get a transfusion or some major medical attention! When I told David, he seemed genuinely concerned. Sadly, the earlier games are with newer teams, like ours and we lead up to our 7pm game with the League Champions from last year. That should be fun.
I had my mini vacation over the weekend. Checked into another local hotel. Not quite as nice as the last place, but it was nice to lay by the pool and just relax. Except for softball yesterday. Before I left on Saturday, David and I went on a bus tour that was part of the Fall Preview for Modernism Week here in Palm Springs. It was fun to ride around on the upper deck of the bus and peek into everyones back yards! Learned a lot about mid-century Palm Springs architecture. Getting up to the upper deck was easier than coming down, but David handled it very well and the bus driver was very helpful.
When we got back from the tour, David and Donovan went to see Gone Girl, and I headed off. They both really liked it a lot. Now I have to find a time to see it for myself. They went on Saturday afternoon, and got to the theatre a bit late, but thought they would have only missed a few minutes, but the ticket taker sent them to the wrong theatre, and they had missed almost half the movie. They stayed for the next showing and caught the beginning and David said that knowing the ending gave the beginning a completely different spin, so they both thought that wasn’t so bad. Afterwards, they went to the Greek place that we both like going to.
On Sunday, they took a drive to Temecula to do some wine tasting. It is a nice drive over the mountains to Temecula, and it was a great day. The temperatures are much more moderate now. They had some wine and lunch at one of the wineries, and from the pictures, they had a great time.
I have written a bit about some of the folks at the Stroke Recovery Center, and Don is one of our favorites. He doesn’t say much, but laughs a lot, and usually with perfect timing. On Thursday, we were in the group that Cedric usually leads, but he is away for a couple weeks. There was a new couple there, and the conversation was very good, and I think everyone was being helpful. At a certain point, the wife mentioned that David had a really great smile and was very good-looking. Just as he was about to say thank you, Don began laughing, and made a comment about wanting to be David’s agent for his modeling career. David told him that he expected his first booking by the end of the month, and that he would only give Don 5%. It’s nice that they are both embarking on new careers.
