Palm Springs

So we decided to stay a few days in Palm Springs to relax a little after all the flying we've been doing. We picked an hotel / spa off the web and it turned out to be a good choice. Nice room, nice spa, and smack in the middle of downtown Palm Springs so we were within walking distance of most everything. This is what our nice room looked like:


Palm Springs is a fun place to do nothing in. It's in the desert under the shadow of the St. Jacinto mountains which provided some very necessary shade in the late afternoon. The place gets so hot (low 100s while we were there) that we chose to spend most of the time at the hotel and only venture out after 6 PM. This is what a downtown that is close to the mountains and is filled with palm trees that have gotten a haircut looks like:


So, what did we do there?

We drank nutritious fruit margaritas (mango for me, peach for Sharon):

We had coffee:


We enjoyed the swimming pool:


We saw a hummingbird's nest:


Had some gazpacho:


Sharon had a hot stone massage (you will have to ask her for details) that left her absolutely limp. She also managed to get wrapped up like a mummy and came out of it smelling like coconuts. I like coconuts, I grew up in the tropics!

Oh yes, we ate at many different restaurants.

Unfortunately three days was all the time we had and on Wednesday we said goodbye and headed out on the last leg of our trip, back to the steed's home in Palo Alto and our home in Mountain View.