Finishing up Palm Springs

 We are almost at the end of May by now and I know I have been less than faithful in keeping the blog updated.  We have been home since early April, and came back to winter.  Since then there has been a bunch of stuff going on and I will try to do a bunch of catch up posts so that those who check up on us once in a while will know that we are still alive and kicking.
 We had a great holiday in Palm Springs.  After our friends left we had a week to ourselves and then Kristy and Graham, Norah and Shae came to join us for our last week.  It was sunny and hot, as all the weeks had been before and we had a good time together.  The girls loved the pool and spent a good many hours in it, splashing and playing.  Norah learned to swim, without water wings, and jump into the pool off of the edge, going under water and swimming back to the edge.  Shae was just happy to  "fimm"  by herself, with her water wings on turning from back to front as she felt led, and making her way around the pool.  We didn't have a lot of busyness planned, we just enjoyed being.  Kristy shopped some,  Graham did some mountain biking, and a bit of golf with Kerry, and they took the girls up the mountain on the ariel tramway.  I think it was a pretty relaxing week all round.  It was close to Easter so we did our easter egg hunt with the girls, just like last year.  It was a good week and all too soon it came to an end, and we parted ways.  Kristy and Graham and girls flew home and we  packed up the car and started our drive.