as our time winds down

I have not given enough blogspace to our friends the reason we are here...it's one of those stories where when you look back you realize that our paths were meant to cross..... many years ago (1997) there was an ad in our old synagogue newspaper (the issue announcing Celia's Bat Mitzvah) offering a house for sale.... 5 bedrooms and the Las Virgenes school district ...we went to check it out....

and the rest is history...Leslie was the Realtor that was offering the house and she ended up being the Realtor that was buying the house and then she did Marty and Stacy's house and Bubbie's house and then David and Tracy's house and then we coined her the official Realtor to the Glickman-Cohn family...but she was more than that she became a member of the family she also became famous for her slut sweaters...

Just about the time we moved into Indian Hill Lane .... Leslie and Bill moved to Oxnard.... not just Oxnard but the Beach in Oxnard it was a fabulous house full of art and antiques and just all kinds of stuff that screamed Leslie and Bill. But they were not there for long... because shortly after they got everything situated Bill retired (kind of according to plan) and they followed their son to Portland Oregon.... yes the same Portland that Celia is in (and having them up their was a relief when she moved up there) but Portland as we all know is cold in the winter months (we really do cause we have visited them twice in Nov, it is cold)...very very cold soooo when it gets snowy and cold where should you go? why Palm Springs of course....which brings us to this trip.... to see Bill and Leslie and Maddie