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| R gives Nana shoe while wearing her new coat that Nana made |
Rachel and I visited Nana for 3 nights in Palm Springs this week. I'd never been to that area before... and, while the visit with Nana was nice, there is no need to go back. I'm not a desert person. I will say it was nice not to wear hat, gloves, and puffy for a few days!
Monday and Thursday travel went well. No problems with the bus, the airports, the flights. Rachel slept in my lap on both flights, actually. Rachel did really well with everything and enjoyed the whole process of the trip. She makes friends every where we go and random strangers helped us with our extra bags, doors, etc quite often. The security people were mostly helpful and friendly.
Funny security note - leaving Palm Springs the average traveler age is probably 65years. Instead of hearing 'please take out your laptops' you could hear 'do you have a hip or knee replacement?' to detect metal body parts for special screening. Cracked me up.
Tuesday it was grey and rainy and we toured Joshua Tree National Park. What a weird place. Tues afternoon we went to the Living Desert Zoo and checked out camels, zebras, giraffes, rode on a carousel, and went to the Children's discovery center. Rachel spent 30 min here opening drawers over and over until the place closed.
Wed it was warm and sunny and we went for a lovely hike up Murray Canyon at Indian Canyon. Nana's knees did very well to hike this 4 mile round trip and my back is still complaining after that much time with the Bjorn carrier. But it was gorgeous. Lots of fun creek crossings and palm trees.
We were only gone a few days but Rachel learned new words even in this short time. She can echo most words now. They may not be understandable to other people, but now we can understand a 'ya', 'teeth', 'turtle', 'melon', and she can sort of do the sign for giraffe.
This trip we also tested out our new travel high chair: the Phil&Ted's Me Too. It folds up small and fairly light and then can clip on most table or counter surfaces to be a portable chair. I really love it and enjoyed having it on this trip for meal time. I'd recommend it to any friend looking for a travel high chair depending on your table.
Glad to be home and get settled and rested before we fly to Virginia next week. Jason has his last day of school tomorrow and then it's Christmas holiday time!!!
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