Happy New Year everybody!
We squeezed in another mini vacation with the girls before the end of the holidays... We booked the hotel at Palm Desert the night before the trip. Our van left home at 8am on New Year's day morning, stopped by Alhambra and had a huge Hong Kong style breakfast. After that we were heading straight to Palm Springs which was only approximately another 1 hour and 15 minutes away. It was very cold and windy when we arrived, good thing was that we have brought warm clothes with us. We made a brief stop at the Palm Springs visitor center and we continue our trip to the Joshua Tree National Park. Not many people spent their New Year day visiting the National Park so we were able to make many stops in the park attractions. I was surprised to notice that there were not a lot of Joshua trees in the first 90% of the park, we started to see them until about 4-5 minutes before we exit at the northern part of the park near Twenty-nine Palms! We saw a lot of Joshua trees along Route 62 heading back to Palm Springs... We had a great buffet dinner at Grand Palms Buffet in Agua Caliente Casino & Resort (Rancho Mirage) before checking in at Best Western Palm Desert.
We squeezed in another mini vacation with the girls before the end of the holidays... We booked the hotel at Palm Desert the night before the trip. Our van left home at 8am on New Year's day morning, stopped by Alhambra and had a huge Hong Kong style breakfast. After that we were heading straight to Palm Springs which was only approximately another 1 hour and 15 minutes away. It was very cold and windy when we arrived, good thing was that we have brought warm clothes with us. We made a brief stop at the Palm Springs visitor center and we continue our trip to the Joshua Tree National Park. Not many people spent their New Year day visiting the National Park so we were able to make many stops in the park attractions. I was surprised to notice that there were not a lot of Joshua trees in the first 90% of the park, we started to see them until about 4-5 minutes before we exit at the northern part of the park near Twenty-nine Palms! We saw a lot of Joshua trees along Route 62 heading back to Palm Springs... We had a great buffet dinner at Grand Palms Buffet in Agua Caliente Casino & Resort (Rancho Mirage) before checking in at Best Western Palm Desert.
We got up at 8am on Sunday morning, had a great complimentary breakfast at the hotel before heading to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. We parked our van and the shuttle took us to the Valley Station. We were able to get on the cable car in 30 minutes. The view was breathtaking looking down the Palm Springs area from the cable car! It was a short 10 minutes ride and we arrived the Mountain Station at Mount San Jacinto State Park. It was freezing up there (8,516 feet elevation), the temperature was -1 degree C but the windchill factor made us feel like -15 degree C! The the ground was covered with 3 feet of snow. We were all exploring the winter wonderland there... After about 45 minutes, it started to snow!! As usual, Vivian started to get upset about the cold weather and wanted to leave. We were able to take lot of nice shots before leaving the Mountain Station. It was such a wonderful experience and we all enjoyed the trip.
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