First Weekend in Palm Springs

It's been about 15 years, but I've been able to visit Palm Springs a few times.  I remember it always being such a fun place to visit, with very friendly people, great restaurants, fun bars and a city with such a rich history, including so much mid century modern, which is something we both love so much.

Thanks to the generosity of a very good friend, we had the use of his gorgeous house and pool.  We couldn't have asked for anything better.  Although, we found our first visit to PS spending most of our days and nights out in the city. 

We weren't home 30 minutes before we headed out to a restaurant that I ate at before called Blue Coyote Grill for some really good Mexican food and margarita's.  Even when we're out of town, we still have to have our Friday M&M.

We walked down Palm Canyon and headed to Tonga Hut, a local Tiki Bar.  Although not as immersive as I'd like for my Tiki Bar's, they had great staff and drinks.  I found out after the fact, that they have this secret room.  All I was told, was to go into the phone booth.  If we only had the chance to go back during the weekend and check it out again to find this hidden room.  There's three Tiki Bar's and somehow we only made it to one.  Good thing we plan on coming back.

After one cocktail, we headed to the gay bars and checked out the Toolshed, but once we found out that Spurlines had Showtunes night, headed there for a night of singing to our favorite tunes.  The whole nightlife reminded us of the bars and our time in Dallas in the '90's.  Such a great time.

Saturday was spent having breakfast at Cheeky's which was pretty good if you don't mind a very long wait.  We then went shopping along Palm Canyon Drive, spending more money than we expected.  So much stuff we wanted. We settled for new sunglasses! Again....

 We had reservations at Tropicale that night for dinner.  Reminds me of an old 1960's supper club, without the live music.  Amazing american food, great cocktails and the waitstaff was wonderful. It's also blatantly obvious place for gay men to hang out for dinner.  We took up half the restaurant.  

We ended the night with more showtunes at QuadZ, then headed home so we could be up early for our last day.

We had no plans on Sunday, so we headed to the Tramway for a trip up the San Jacinto Mountain range.  Steven does not like heights, but he did good. All the anxiety was totally worth it he said, once we got up to the top to see all the gorgeous views.

I fell in love all over again with Palm Springs, and Steven fell in love with it for the first time.  

We'll definitely be back.