HAPPY 50th Wedding Anniversary

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary to my Mother and Father in Law. Still in LOVE after all these years. Just look at the picture. It says it all!

Journey

So I am off to the Journey Concert at Pala Casino tonight. Thank goodness for the Indian Casinos, cuz now they get all the 80's bands and folks that we adored when we were 20 years younger! I am looking forward to "Midnight Train" or "Don't stop believing" (what is the official name of that song?) In my opinon it's their best song and I may just get emotional when they play it. I love the build up and just everything about it. I'm looking forward to a good time tonight.



Here is a little blurb, I pulled from Wikipedia on Journey:

Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California with former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases, but its strongest commercial success came in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. During this period, they had hits with a series of power ballads and rock songs, including "Don't Stop Believing", "Any Way You Want It", "Faithfully", "Open Arms", "Send Her My Love" "Separate Ways", "Wheel in the Sky", "Who's Crying Now", "Stone In Love", "Lovin,' Touchin,' Squeezin;'", and "Lights". The group enjoyed a successful reunion in the mid-1990s with a major Grammy-nominated hit, "When You Love a Woman." Throughout Journey's three decades of existence, their albums have achieved gold status twice, platinum status three times, multi-platinum plateau eight times, and Diamond one time. These include seven consecutive multi-platinum albums, stretching from 1978 to 1987. They had 18 Top 40 singles, six of which reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Their signature song, "Don't Stop Believing", is the top-selling catalog track in iTunes history, at more than two million downloads.

Quote of the Day - July 28, 2009

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

- Josh Billings

Quote of the Day - July 27, 2009

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

- Gail Sheehy

Girls Weekend on the Riviera 2009

Last weekend we had a girls get away to the desert house on the Riviera. Who would have thought that 13 women would want to get away to the desert in July with the high temp being 117 degrees??? It happeneded and we had a blast!

Everybody showed up Friday night. We started the festivities with a couple of ice breaker games to include a purse scavenger hunt and observation game. Then we had our Greek themed Mamma Mia night. (total chick flick) We had chicken, greek salad, stuffed grape leaves and baklava for desert. And to cap it off we watched Mamma Mia!



Saturday morning was a time of relaxation and just talking and lounging around in the PJ's. There were coloring books and crayons, Girls night out Dare Cards, hula hoops, you name it, it was there to not act our own age! Early afternoon we played bingo and inbetween games we went out to check on our egg that we decided to fry in the hot afternoon sun! It took an hour but it happened.



That night we got into our 70's themed festivities by dressing up for the era and having a progressive dinner. 1st house had the typical 70's appetizers and Salad bar, to include celery sticks and deviled eggs and of course a punch bowl full of spiked punch! 2nd house included the main course which was Hamburger helper, tuna Casserole, Chicken Casserole and Veg-all! The last house was dessert, where we celebrated 3 birthdays and had cupcakes and cookies.



We were then off to Captain Jim's bar in our 70's attire and took the Salton City by storm. What a GREAT time!



Please see the slide show pictures below.