This is just about the perfect place to be during the gloomy, cold Ohio winter! Our third time here and we are 3 for 3 with beautiful weather! This time we are at the Wyndham for two weeks with a first floor unit which is very convenient for our walks with Bailey and sitting on our patio.
The temperature is between 72 and 80, sunny every day which requires us to be at the pool, patio or hot tub all day. This place is on a golf course and so beautiful! We only left for a mandatory trip to Costco to stock up on food so we are good! About the most strenuous activity has been grilling 4 hamburgers on the outside grill. Pete is in the exercise room everyday--forgot about that!
Sunday we went to a polo match at the Empire Polo Club. It was such a great experience and # 2 on Trip Advisor! There are several polo clubs and they all have their own field which is 6 times as large as a football field. The VIP tickets ($30 each) we reserved several days ahead and we thought well worth the money. Food available to buy but can't bring your own. Matches at 12 and 2pm. Your table is reserved for all day. The grounds were immaculate and so beautiful with bridges, lakes, flowers and real grass as in golf course quality!.
Some ladies were very dressed up and brought their dogs who were equally beautified! Our shaded table was perfect and we could see the whole field while the announcer explained what was going on. We had gotten on "YouTube" and learned a little about Polo before we got there so we knew not to call the mounts "horses"--they are ponies (even though they are often retired thoroughbred race horses)! The matches are only on Sundays during the winter season.
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There are 6 periods (called chukkers)of 7 minutes and 30 seconds each with 4 players on each team. Each rider gets a new horse every period because it is so strenuous for these former Thoroughbred race horses. Riders just slide from one horse to the next without touching the ground! So that is 24 horses per team per match--this is an expensive sport!
During "half time" all the spectators (dogs and all) are invited onto the field, given a glass of champagne and we "stomped divots" back into the grass. I'm not sure how effective the ladies high heels were but everyone joined in the fun!
The team with two girls on it won 12 to 4! Such great fun and requires tremendous coordination!
Super Bowl was shown on two large screens and since almost everyone here is from Portland and Washington we had a lot of sad 49er fans but it was great fun!
Death of my Android phone. We are on the famously expensive El Paseo Drive in Palm Springs at the iPhone store since my Android is gasping its last few breaths. So glad Pete already has one and is pretty knowledgeable. The sales person gave up trying to maintain eye contact with me after she soon realized I had no idea what she was talking about! I did enjoy picking out the color!!
We went to the Fantasy Springs Casino which is 10 minutes
away for their lunch buffet which is always fun. Problem is
that they allow smoking---so obnoxious and can't believe that is how all restaurants were as we were
growing up. Nasty!
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