Odds and Ends

A few more tid bits of what to do, to occupy your time in Palm Springs...

Buy funky sunglasses,

Grab a Slurpee,

Drive out to view all the hundreds of windmills, impressively turning in the desert winds.

Get a manicure/pedicure for next to nothing! I mean it was so inexpensive. It was a popular and busy spa too. If you are crazy enough to go to Palm Springs in the summer, there are deals to be had!

AND, for you real thrill seekers, drive South of Palm Springs, almost to the Mexican boarder. Go on a really, really super hot day to get the full effect and check out the mud pots! They are hard to find and when you ask for directions from a worker at a remote and mysterious factory, and they look at you as if you are crazy, then you have found them.

The piece de la resistance, for me, was the fact we were so far south we actually went through a preliminary boarder patrol. The guards were in uniforms and there was even fierce looking dogs! I felt like I was in a movie or it was bad dream. I was brought back to reality when my shirtless son, crying in the back seat over how hot he got looking at the mud, asked when were we going to get him his beer! I just laughed nervously as the guard peered in to our car. (Some background information here would be that we promised him a root beer, if he got out of the car to have a look at the mud pots. It was going to be his first taste of this yummyness.)

What Max is thinking ..."This Root Beer stuff better be good, for this mud pot sucks."

In closing, we, the Beckers, would highly recommend Palm Springs for a get away, if you are looking for warmth and a lot to do.  Here are a few more snaps.