Sunday, November 16, 2008

Our Adventures In Palm Desert



This is the view of the golf course and mountains from the timeshare we were in at the Marriott Springs Hotel. It's a two-bedroom, two-bath condo on the first floor with ample kitchen, dining and living room space. Kerry's dad bought two of them back in the late 90s. No one seems to know why. With his death, they passed to Kerry and his sisters, Susan and Joanne. We all meet there twice a year; once in early November and once around Valentine's Day.

It's a pretty laid back existence as you can see from the pictures of Harleen. I especially like the one of her in the jacuzzi tub. No jets for her. Our days were pretty much centered around food, reading and naps. Discussion would start at breakfast about what we would have for lunch and dinner and how we would space our meals. We tried a new place called Flemings. It's named for Paul Fleming who is also the PF in PF Chang. I stuck to my vegetarian regime except for eating bacon with my french toast one morning.

There were several demonstrations about the vote on Prop. 8 while we were there . The Mormons poured $37 million dollars into the campaign to make it illegal for gays and lesbians to get married. Now how Christian is that way of thinking. To spend millions to deny people their human rights is simply awful. The Palm Springs area has a large gay and lesbian population so they were out marching on Thursday and Friday night. I don't think that the vote on Prop. 8 is the end of this matter. At least I hope it isn't.

Harleen was extremely good all week. She tolerated the nine-hour ride down as well as any of us did. We took her to the hotel, let her ride the elevator, have lunch in one of the restaurants and ride the shuttle bus back to the villa. She really liked having more people around. Today she seems pretty bored with Kerry and me.
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2 comments:

blogauthor said...

Oh my gosh, look at how BIG she has gotten!!!!

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Oklahoma Girl said...

Harleen is just too CUTE!! I'm glad she enjoyed the adventure. My furkids just love to travel. I have one who is always on "cow watch"--they just fascinate him & he will do a double take everytime he spots them & he has to ride shotgun. One tries to drive-that is strongly discouraged & gets him put in his crate. And the other likes to ride in the backseat alone--he is my sleepy traveling boy. Sounds like a beautiful place to stay & that you had a wonderful restful time. It is good to get away sometimes.

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