TUESDAY, APRIL 09, 2013
It's a wonderful world....despite the windy welcome
Monday, we arrived in Palm Springs 20 minutes early because of incredible winds. Great to arrive early and not so great to have this wind on the ground. Couldn't jump into the pool...too windy and too much debris. And very disappointing that our land phone didn't work after being assured by Verizon that it would.
After much frustration and not being able to get it hooked up we cancelled it. Now we will have a land phone connected to our Time-Warner Cable & Internet and can have a 6 month vacation stop so all better in the end. But, my iPHone started doing weird things like going immediately to voice mail (Richard, your solution worked a bit but still a problem so probably have to visit the Apple Store in El Paseo...we love going to the Elephant Bar for lunch so no real problem!)
Erna and Marvin let us use their Internet and their cell phones so made things so much easier...merci beaucoup! You are such great neighbours!
Today, we got cable and internet and Thursday will get the phone. The manager of Canyon Sands is great and let us use her phone to do a number of important things. We are well taken care of but coming on all the stress and hassle of getting our house up for sale and moving to another apartment...well...it was all a bit much.
But, a beautiful calm day today and we got lots of stuff we needed including a deluxe king size bed. It must only be in the United States that you can order a bed in the afternoon and have it set up and delivered by 6pm? Wow! And we bought these fabulous Egyptian cotton 1,000 thread count sheets for a fraction of what we'd pay in Canada. That's something I really appreciate in having our own place...to have stuff that is important to us like great beds and bedding. Staying in first class hotels no problem, but we so often travel in short term renal accommodation and things aren't quite as we would like them. But then, the south of France and Palms Springs make up for a lot regardless.
Now...we have it all!
After much frustration and not being able to get it hooked up we cancelled it. Now we will have a land phone connected to our Time-Warner Cable & Internet and can have a 6 month vacation stop so all better in the end. But, my iPHone started doing weird things like going immediately to voice mail (Richard, your solution worked a bit but still a problem so probably have to visit the Apple Store in El Paseo...we love going to the Elephant Bar for lunch so no real problem!)
Erna and Marvin let us use their Internet and their cell phones so made things so much easier...merci beaucoup! You are such great neighbours!
Today, we got cable and internet and Thursday will get the phone. The manager of Canyon Sands is great and let us use her phone to do a number of important things. We are well taken care of but coming on all the stress and hassle of getting our house up for sale and moving to another apartment...well...it was all a bit much.
But, a beautiful calm day today and we got lots of stuff we needed including a deluxe king size bed. It must only be in the United States that you can order a bed in the afternoon and have it set up and delivered by 6pm? Wow! And we bought these fabulous Egyptian cotton 1,000 thread count sheets for a fraction of what we'd pay in Canada. That's something I really appreciate in having our own place...to have stuff that is important to us like great beds and bedding. Staying in first class hotels no problem, but we so often travel in short term renal accommodation and things aren't quite as we would like them. But then, the south of France and Palms Springs make up for a lot regardless.
Now...we have it all!
