A not so warm weekend in Desert Hot Springs

A while back we planned a spring get away weekend with Rosie's family in Desert Hot Springs. Ordinarily the weather would have been around 80 degrees, but a cold front dropped the temperatures to around 60 degrees.  That was still warmer than the foot of snow that we missed in Reno, but not quite hanging out by the pool weather.

On Saturday Calvin and Jay rode their bikes to Joshua Tree National Park where we met them at the visitor's center.

After lunch at Foster's Freeze we headed into the park

We stopped at a giant rock formation and the climbing began.  You can't really tell from some of the pictures, but these are really big rocks.  Look for Jays green jacket to get an idea of the scale.

After these rock were climbed we made another stop and more rocks were climbed and photos taken

The next day we drove to Palm Springs and took "the largest rotating aerial tramway in the world" to Mt. San Jacinto State Park at 8,516 feet elevation. We enjoyed the spectacular views and then hurried in for hot chocolate.

Jimmy took a short adventure in the snow and then more Wright Family on a rock pictures

This was a fun place to visit.  We need to do it again when it is WARM!