A couple of weeks ago, we spent the day and evening at La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club…
But then we heard that it would be snowing in Idyllwild over the weekend, so we booked a cabin at The Idyllwild Inn, our home away from home just two hours from La Jolla! It snowed like crazy… And I just had to show you how it looks in the evening… So pretty, right?!
We brought along our eldest son and his lovely then-girlfriend, now-fiance, (after four sons, we finally get our girl!!!) and we made snow angels and a snowman…
Okay, Bree made the snowman and I watched. Don’t we look alike? Weird but in a nice way; she was meant to be our daughter. So after all that hard work, we headed to dinner at Aroma, a wonderful restaurant in town. We LOVED it so much we headed back for breakfast. But after all that cold, cold, cold snow…
…we headed two hours in the other direction for a 76 degree temperature swing. La Jolla hovered around 61 degrees and La Quinta? A scorcher at a nice dry 108. We love the desert.
La Quinta is gorgeous. And our twenty-something-year-old kids and their friends, who knows why ever, were desperate to attend the Coachella Concert Festival for three long days and nights in that heat…
Eighty thousand million gazillion hot bodies swaying and dancing and jumping and who knows what else on the Polo Fields of Indio in Palm Desert. Does that sound like fun? Eh.
Greg and I stayed at Legacy Villas, with views to the sno-capped mountains of Idyllwild, (!!!) cooking up a huge breakfast buffet for the kids each morning, (read NOON,) and then drove the kids to the concerts at about 3 PM to avoid the parking nightmare that a million gazillion kids will create at a latter-day-Woodstock-like outdoor festival concert.
That’s our son and soon-to-be partner, Ryley, on the left, and Conor and Charlie at far right. They were a hot, sticky mess, I bet. Patrick opted for cooler quarters at a home in La Quinta.
Conor’s girlfriend, Niki, found a healthful way to keep cool. Nomnomnomnom…
But the watermelon didn’t quite suffice, I guess, so the clothes came off. Niki and Conor. NikiCon. Like Brangelina, get it? Okay, I’m a nerd but at least I know it.
But I’ll let you in on a SECRET! Nothing, absolutely, positively NOTHING, makes six hot, messy, sticky, weary danced-out festival-goers happier at 2 AM than being handed a couple of boxes of In-n-Out cheeseburgers! But I digress…
The point of my post is, of course, that La Jolla offers a range of climates and experiences within a two hour drive… We went from 60-ish degree cool to frigid cold and hot, hot heat in just a couple of hours… And as we drove over the mountain from the desert, we got a peek to the marine layer that keeps our beaches nice and cool…
In fact, that marine layer got pretty thick in places… but we knew it meant La Jolla would be calm and cool, just as we like it... if we made it home in one piece with all that fog, which we did because I am writing a blog post.
Back at the beach, the weather and the surf are PERFECT. You, too can enjoy beach, mountains and desert within a short drive. Call us anytime. We will hook you up.
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