Thursday - January 10, 2008

Wow, what a gorgeous day, the temperature was in the low 70’s so just perfect as far as I’m concerned.

This afternoon we went over to Jim & Sonia’s at Desert Paradise Park for a visit and had a good time. Ida, who we were beside the first year we were there, came over for a drink and a visit, she is 78 and a going concern! It was actually quite hot sitting in the sun but I won’t complain as we have been waiting for it to be like this.

On the way home we stopped at Lowe’s and picked up our new Bunn coffee maker so when we got back I got it unpacked and ready to use tomorrow morning, we want to make sure it works okay then will pack it away until we get home.

By the time I was finished with that it was time to change our clothes and head out for our Old Yuma walking tour. Tonight the weather was still really nice so jeans, a sweatshirt and vest were very comfortable for clothing. The tour was interesting and we learned a lot about Yuma, it was the first city west of the Mississippi to be designated a Heritage City and there are only about 8 cities in all of the US with that designation – quite surprising until she explained. Yuma was the link to the west during the gold rush with a rope ferry across the Colorado River and then was settled a few years later by those returning from the gold rush. For years anyone in Oregon, for instance, wanting to drive to Chicago had to come down through Yuma to get there as the east west highway went through Yuma and here was the only bridge crossing the Colorado. This was in the years when there were no roads across the rockies. The tour was interesting but we found the woman doing the tour rather disjointed in her presentation, she would start telling us about something then get sidetracked and sometimes go on just a bit too long. I think this is something new for her so hopefully she will get her presentation down a bit more pat as there is a lot of interesting history. There are apparently a number of haunted homes and old buildings in the old section but we didn’t see anything resembling a ghost on our tour.

On the way home we stopped at Applebee’s for a light snack, now it is time for a cuppa Sleepy Time Tea then off to bed, and so ends another wonderful day in our life of retirement.