A walk around the Saguaro Hotel in Palm Springs

When Hannah invited Mabel and I to Palm Springs for a girls getaway, I started a board on Pinterest of things to do and see there.  While pinning I came across this photo and thought wow!  I mean rainbows and palm trees - what more could you want!?

So, when we stumbled upon this sign

while on our walk one evening I knew we had to go in to check it out.

Pronounced suh-warh-oh, and named after the cactus (like this one here), the Saguaro underwent a make-over in 2011.  Architects Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat, known for their bold use of colour drew from 14 vibrant tones found in native desert wildflowers.  You can read all about it here.

But for now, sit back and enjoy the colourful tour from my perspective.  As soon as you step in the door the colours just jump out at you.

 then, walking through the lobby and out into the courtyard the colours just kept coming.

we walked around the perimeter of the courtyard and every angle brought a new colour combination.

 Hannah was a good sport and indulged me the 3 billion photographs I took :)

 Here's what it looks like inside.   I imagine waking up here would instantly make you happy! {unless of course you are hungover, and then I think it might make you nauseous}

Hot hot hot!

Palm Springs has been so hot, but then what can you expect from the desert... luckily this has been our home for the last few days :)

not bad eh?  but now we're both very excited to go home :)  

Palm Springs

Mabel and I are heading out on a mini girls vacation today with Hannah to Palm Springs.  It's going to be an average of 40 (104F) degrees while we're there. Ooh la la!  But luckily there's a pool, that we'll be spending lots of time in :)

It'll be the longest time we've spent away from Bryce, but, it's only 4 days... Hopefully we'll all survive without each other :)

Hope you all have wonderful weekends!

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happy friday!

thank goodness it is friday! this week has been exhausting, I am so looking forward to the weekend and sleeping in tomorrow...

I took this great shot of this guy at Pfeiffer Beach down the coast while we were at Big Sur last weekend, along with hundreds of other great pics which I'll post as soon as I get some time...

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

pet peeve...

ok, so one thing I don't really get about living here in california is the 'compact' car parking spaces... on what planet would these 2 cars on either side of my little car consider themselves 'compact'...??? sigh....

happy friday!

it's one of those beautiful Californian days today, the sun is shining, the sky looks extra blue and best of all it is my favourite day of the week...

This Charming Store

High upon a hill in Beasore near Bass Lake is the charminest little general store there ever was. Run for generations by my boyfriend's family the Jones General Store is a former pack station that still does business during the summer months. Grandma bakes homemade fruit pies and cooks for people while grandpa works on maintaining the dozen cabins for people who come up to stay at the campsite for the season. There's even an old-fashioned glass topped fuel pump out in front that you actually have to pump by hand in order to get your gas. Instead of mule teams coming through, these days the customers are bikers and long time residents of the mountains who all stop by for the delicious Jones burgers. I can't wait to get up there Memorial Day weekend!