Monday, April 11, 2011

Palm Springs trip, 2nd day.....

We started the 2nd day of the Palm Springs trip by going to this breakfast/brunch place called Cheeky's around noon. The place was crowded and we waited more than 30 min just to get seated...

There were so many people waiting...even the outside seats were filled....

Billy concentrating on the menu....

Cool orange juice in the beaker....but very small at the same time....


Billy's short rib, kinda salty and chewy I thought....

They claimed to have diff. flavors of bacon, but the only one we could really tell is the spicy one on the left....

My French Toasts were kinda interesting....with Lemon filling in them....

A lot of windmills again while we were driving to Joshua Tree National Park....

This is the main reason we made the Palm Springs trip :)

Here.....bunch of Joshua Trees....The piles of rocks are actually from volcanic movements...

I was surprised there were many people in the national park....I guess they all came for the rocks...

Peeking through :)

Billy doing rock climbing...or pretending to....lol

Such a sunny day....

That is Joshua Tree right there....they can go up really tall....

Many Rock climbers....

@ hidden Valley where there were a lot of huge rocks.....

Looked like a nuclear bomb....

The line in the middle is St. Andrea fault, which is where all the earthquake happens....We were sitting at a view point where you can look over the whole valley....

Look @ that tiny person next to the weird rock....

We had to climb up to the top for this pic :)

Skull rock really looked like a skull....

So pretty with the clouds and blue sky....

There was an area called cactus garden....very dangerous place....lol


Our car "little gray" looks pretty good in the desert :)

That....is actually a sort of tree, not cactus....Very interesting tree with very little leaves and red flowers....


Saw that on the way back to the hotel....guess there was some sort of fire...

Dinner was at Copley's. I fount the place on Yelp with the highest rating and the food didn't disappoint. We finished the day with full stomach and lots of photos :)


Sunday, April 3, 2011

Palm Springs mini trip, day 1

Akiang was heading back to TW after she ended her 1st semester at school. We decided to take a short trip before she goes so she can take care of the cats. Since we didn't have that much time and really didn't know where to go we just decided to make a Palm Springs/Joshua Tree road trip so we can use our national park pass again. It was raining for the week at LA, but we got lucky as we headed east to our destinations even though for the 1st day weather wasn't all that great.....

View of the resort we stayed at.....We didn't really got to the golf course or swimming pool for the whole trip though....lol

As you can see it was a very "cloudy" day even though sun was out....I liked how the clouds made the hills prettier with all the shadows....


Since weather wasn't that great we just went to the outlet to walk around and had a nice dinner to end the day....We went to Cork Tree which of course I found on Yelp. The interior was all dark so it wasn't good for photo taking but the food was nice...

Special salad was quite special....never had this type of tomato salad before....goes well with the skinless asparagus :)

Cute little soup sampling....squash, tomato, onion soups...

Billy looking happy with the soup....

I got scallops and Billy got short ribs


Billy looking happy with his red wine....

Desserts....Trio of creme brulee was kinda cool with interesting flavors....

Cork Tree it is....

clouds were cool after we finished dinner....and we just finished the 1st day of trip after dinner :)