This time Alysha & Desi coordinated a weekend in Palm Springs. None of us had ever been to Palm Springs before, so we were really looking forward to exploring a new place together. Unfortunately, our sunny and warm weekend was anything but, raining and chilly the whole time. But, we didn't let that stop our good times.
When we rolled into Palm Springs on Friday night, around 8PM, we immediately headed to our dinner reservations at The Tropicale. This place was great! Good food, good times, good service, fake fireplace. It had it all. Afterwards we headed to our hotel, the Alexander Inn. This place was amazing and made for the perfect stay during a rainy weekend. Because it was a two bedroom condo we were able to have a common area where we could just sit and talk and watch movies and hang out, rather than if we'd had separate hotel rooms where we would've had to choose one room or the other to hang out in, which is never as comfortable as a couch and designated living area.
Our Saturday began with breakfast at Hamburger Mary's, which was fantastic and a whole lot of fun. Then we headed back to the room to strategize our day. We decided we would go grab a movie at Red Box and try to wait out the rain. We got The Hangover, booze (we LOVE California's liquor laws), and movie snacks at the Ralph's grocery store and headed back to the room. After The Hangover ("tigers like pepper, they hate cinnamon"), and with the rain coming down harder than before, we decided bowling was in order.
After a couple of games (Alysha has some mad skillz), and with the weather still not cooperating, we headed back to Ralph's for another movie. While we were picking up Zombieland Luis grabbed a winning scratch lottery ticket and walked away with $25. We were having a great day!
For dinner we hit the Village Pub. This place was hopping! There was live music (a pretty good cover band), dancing, a couple of girls Luis was convinced were professional escorts, a bachelor party and a bachelorette party (not sure if they were two halves of the same whole), and the largest oysters on the half shell any of us had ever seen (Luis was so intimidated he couldn't even get one down). We hung out for a while and, upon leaving, discovered that there was quite a wait to get in. Apparently, we had just walked into the coolest joint in town. We felt pretty cool walking out of that place. After dinner, we headed back to the room to watch Zombieland ("nut up or shut up") and then we called it a night.
Sunday morning we awoke to a lovely sunny day. We had enough time to grab some breakfast and walk around for a bit before heading back to Los Angeles for our afternoon flights back home. Luckily, the drive took us much less time than anticipated and we decided to try to get some beach time in before heading back to our respective cold and miserable climates. We drove to the nearest beach and played for about an hour. It was an amazing way to wrap up a great weekend with great friends.
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