Surprise Meeting & Golf Tournament January 2008

We stayed in the Palm Springs area for another week or so after the rally so we could go to the Bob Hope Classic PGA Golf Tournament.

While we were there, we met up with a friend we met at the beginning of our adventure, Don. We planned a golfing date with him and some other Alaskans he knew. While we were heading to the golf course, we remembered that a gal Tom used to work with, Becky, spent winters in that area and we were sort of wondering how we might get in touch with her. We got to the golf course where we were meeting Don and before we even got to the first tee, Jo heard someone call her name and there was Becky! And not only that, but turns out she knew some of the other Alaskans Don brought along. Not only that, but Becky told us that the next week, another of the guys Tom used to work with, Mark, was coming down to visit with his wife, Katrina, so we were able to hook up with them for a day too. Proving once again what a small world we live in.

The golf tournament was great fun. It is a ProAm charity event so the first two days of the tournament there were celebrities and amateurs playing alongside the pros. We saw Taylor Hicks, Samuel L. Jackson, Huey Lewis, Kenny G., George Lopez, Luke Wilson, Don Cheadle, Kevin James, Kevin Nealon, Jimmy Fallon, Alice Cooper, Michael Bolton, Carson Daly, Thomas Gibson (Greg of Dharma & Greg) Meat Loaf, Cheech Marin, Kyle McLauglin (from Desp. Housewives) and Chris O'Donnell. There were more, but I don't remember them all - and some I'd never heard of.