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| View from our floor! |
In the late afternoon on Christmas Day, we left for
Palm Springs. Last year, on December 26, we went
tubing on Mt. Baldy and that was so much fun that we wanted to play in the snow again this year! To make the experience a little different, we decided to make
Mt. San Jacinto our destination. Oma Eva had never been in Palm Springs and was excited to see something new! We drove about 2.5 hours and arrived at the
Renaissance Hotel around 6 PM. The hotel was awesome: modern and very tastefully decorated. Not too expensive either, but that may be because we booked Christmas Day (I noticed that the rate for the day after was double the price!). We freshened up in our rooms and then headed to downtown to find a place to eat. No luck there, as half of the restaurants were closed on Christmas Day and the other half had wait times over an hour (we didn't have a reservation anywhere)! So we went back to the hotel and had dinner at
DATE, the hotel's restaurant. Service was slow because again, most of the staff was off-duty enjoying X-mas, but we didn't mind. The girl serving our table was very friendly and apologetic, and the kids were fine, so it was all good!
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| Awesome fire-pit outside! |
Next morning: breakfast and rushing to the
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway! We made it just in time for our 10:30 tram ride!
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| Morning face in the hotel lobby. |
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| Ennio wants to see it all! |
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| On our way to the tramway! |
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| The view! |
In the rotating gondola, we saw some friends who happened to spend the holidays in Palm Springs as well.
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| You can see Peter's reflection in the glass! |
Up on the mountain, there really wasn't much snow! Hardly enough to use the sled, but we did anyway - on the ice, scary (for me!) sometimes!
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| Ennio had no trouble pulling Lily! |
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| Looking for snow! |
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| With Zoé |
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| Lily still likes to "eat" snow! |
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| Having a break with chocolate santa's! |
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| Fresh air makes tired! |
A rare family picture! Thank you, Oma Eva!
Oma Eva made a cool selfie of her and Lily:
In spite of the lack of snow, we had fun!
Bye bye Palm Springs, see you next time!
Before heading back to Los Angeles, we wanted to check out the Palm Springs WW II Air Museum. The museum was only open for another hour but that was just enough for us to see most of the planes. We were very impressed. There were two enormous hangars full of aircraft and an outside lot with helicopters and other planes. We also saw some old-timers and limousines. The museum is right by the airport, so there were constantly planes taking off or landing. Heaven for a little airplane-addict! Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area! 
