Palm Springs Anniversary Trip

The week after my mom's week-long visit and the week before my brother's week-long visit, Tyler planned for a romantic week away to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary. It was amazing. I just got to show up. He did all the driving, researched restaurants, and planned what activities we did each day. That was the biggest surprise and delight for me because I am the obsessive planner, having planned our only 4 trips together before this one. So getting to sit back and relax even before the trip started was some of the best part for me. Some of the highlights of our trip included: a living desert zoo (see photo below of us in the desert) meaning that they only have desert or hot weather appropriate animals, getting massages together (THAT WAS AWESOME), going to the art museum (see photo & note: those people are FAKE) and playing my new favorite game, backgammon poolside at our b&b. There was also a scary, yet fun trip on a gondola up to the top of the adjacent mountain (where it was 50 degrees cooler: 120 on the ground, 70 8,000 feet up). About 50 people could fit in the tram, complete with a rotating floor so you get a 360 view twice on the way up and down. I am terrified of heights and this gondola ride is why. It swayed every time it went through a "gate" or the stand that held it up. Just imagine a terrifying huge HIGH ski lift. But once at the top we enjoyed the scenery (see photos below). All in all, a wonderful week before having to drive home back to the business of the rest of our June.


us at the desert

no, this is NOT photoshopped. It really was 121 degrees!

looking back down during the gondola ride. if this doesn't look steep, that's because it was only after passing 1 of 4 "gates", each part getting steeper until we were going almost vertically.

us at the top!

can you guess which couple is fake?