Thursday, April 21, 2016

A Day in the Desert

April 20

Another leisurely morning, 79 degrees and sunny. There was lots going on at home:  Tom had board meeting on the phone, a plumber came to install anew garbage disposal, the TV guy arrived to do some repair, the gardener was watering. Bea and I left the confusion at 9 for our pedicure appointment which was a bit of a fiasco for Bea. Her pedicurist smudged her big toe and had to do repair work!  I was finished at 9:30; Bea was done at 10:15. We celebrated our pedicures at Starbucks before returning home!

At noon (94 degrees) we left for Palm Springs 94 and Bill's Pizza, one of top 10 pizza places in U.S.  Bill's definitely passed the Bebop "test" 1:45. However, it had advertised a brick oven and all Peter could see was a regular commercial pizza oven. We all enjoyed our lunch. 

Our next stop was the Palm Springs Air Museum, mainly featuring World War II exhibits. There were docents available to explain each model ship, each photo, each display. They were eager to share information. We watched an illuminated exhibit showing the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Outside there were many actual restored World War II and Vietnam era planes. At the end of our tour, we sat for a while reading original copies of Look, Life and Saturday Evening Post magazines dated the months we were born. What a hoot!

On the way home, we stopped for provisions for dinner. Peter was the chef for Burrata appetizer, pork Parmesan, fresh pasta with red sauce and Bea's salad. Delish!  After dinner we sat around the table on the patio and solved ALL the problems we could think of........we talked, laughed, grew somber, grew earnest, laughed some more and finally went to bed.....later than usual!!

 

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