{"id":790357,"date":"2015-04-25T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=790357"},"modified":"2015-04-25T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T01:30:26","slug":"palm-desert-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2015\/04\/25\/palm-desert-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Desert 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

My aunt and uncle purchased a house in Palm Desert about five years ago. \u00a0We just have not been coordinated enough to get down to visit them while they are there (they winter bird there, and spend the other half of the year in WA state). Finally, we made the trip! \u00a0Unfortunately, we made the mistake of driving down at the same time as the Coachella festival. \u00a0Because of this, we ended up having to add three hours EACH WAY of our drive.<\/p>\n

First stop was to pick up the world famous split pea soup at Andersen’s.<\/a>\u00a0 They are one of those legendary places that people have on their bucket list. \u00a0We wanted to keep on the road, so we took it to go and drank the soup while driving. \u00a0It was a treat and we all enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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When we got to Pasadena, we stopped at a Trader Joe’s to pick up a healthy lunch, yet stay on the road. \u00a0On the way out, we discovered that we were in the original Trader Joe’s! \u00a0Here is a picture with my gang in front of the sign…\"IMG_9091\"<\/a>
\nFrom Pasadena to La Quinta, what should have been a 45 minute drive, turned into 3 hours! \u00a0This Coachella festival is apparently huge and draws many L.A. peeps. \u00a0We made it to my aunt and uncle’s early evening. \u00a0The boys took a plunge in the pool, and my aunt treated us to an amazing dinner, (she always does…)<\/p>\n

After a good and early night sleep, we took off the next day to take a tram ride<\/a> in Palm Springs. \u00a0It goes up 8500 feet! \u00a0There are only two trams like this in the whole world. \u00a0It has a rotating floor so everyone has an equal opportunity for ascending\/descending views…gorgeous!!! We hiked at the top for 1.5 miles, then had lunch at the nicer restaurant up there.<\/p>\n

After a full day there, we headed for home, then enjoyed another wonderful meal by Annie.
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Sunday, we went to service with them, then relaxed at home a little, then went and saw the movie, “McFarland, USA”<\/a>. \u00a0This is an incredible film. \u00a0One worth watching over and over. \u00a0My uncle said he was going to buy it, and he does not buy movies! \u00a0Dinner at Red Robin after, then some more pool time. \u00a0We left early the next day. \u00a0Too short, but soon sweet!\"IMG_9132\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My aunt and uncle purchased a house in Palm Desert about five years ago. \u00a0We just have not been coordinated enough to get down to visit them while they are there (they winter bird there, and spend the other half of the year in WA state). Finally, we made the trip! \u00a0Unfortunately, we made the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790374,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790357\/revisions\/790374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}