Palm Springs Continued
There were a bazillion spots to take great pictures up there, but here are some of my favorites from our sub-alpine adventure...
After playing around in the mountains, and taking the gondola back down, we had dinner at the hotel and planned out the next day. I was pretty sure that mom and dad would want to see the Joshua Tree National Forest, just 50 miles east and a little south of PS int he palm desert (speaking of which, palms are not native plants, and there are none growing in the desert anyways? Who the heck names these places?!). So we drove Shelby's corolla out in the million degree heat in search of a national treasure.
I was probouncing "Saguaro" cactus in my spit-on-you voice, reminiscing about the time Snoopy visited his brother, Spike in the desert at his home inside a saguaro, when we spotted one and decided to post for a family picture on the way back. Here are some of us in the Joshua Trees. There are no real clear boundaries for the park, and I kept insisting it was "just right ahead" but we never really passed into a definable park area, so we got out on a dirt road and posed with the Joshuas surrounding us. I figure it's close enough.
I'm really liking this ability to modify the images because while I'm really pushing maximum density, I can actually look pretty good in these... ha ha. I love technology :)
Well. I'll leave you in PS while we moved on to Catalina Island. While I have kept the Catlina Island brochure for all these months for the sole purpose of being able to spew information like a tour guide, I finally lost hope of ever getting my computer back from the bloodsuckers at Best Buy and threw the thing out. Fortunatley, they have a website...