Side trip to Palm Springs

Scott has been waiting for the building permit to come through for the Tualatin Yogurt Shack and he said it was going to be a couple of more weeks...nothing to do, so he asked if I wanted to go to Scottsdale and I jumped at the chance to get away and maybe see some sun!  And we were so blessed with sun...in fact it was record breaking sunshine temperatures while we were there...but you know, in the desert, it doesn't feel as hot as it does at home or say...in Texas or Florida!

And we also decided to give our friends, Randy and Gail Hurt a call and see if we could visit them for a couple of days.  They stayed at our house for a couple of months this last winter and were now in Palm Springs...I know Scott was looking forward to playing some golf with Randy!  Scott has known Randy since grade school...they just went to different universities...Randy is a retired high school math teacher...and now he and his wife are vagabonds...leaving the state of Oregon every year around October and heading to the sun country...we spent two nights and three days with them...sure enjoyed reminiscing and sharing stories and laughing a lot!  They are fun people!!

sitting out on their patio in the evening

 There was still snow in the mountains...however Palm Springs was getting record high temperatures while we were there, so I am sure the snow is now a thing of the past.  We spent one evening traveling through town and visiting their numerous "yogurt" stores, just to check out the competition, you know!!  and I think Scott and I decided our design and what we had to offer the public was the best of the ones we had seen!

Oh, I have to tell you about a town called Quartz Site...absolutely nothing in this town except a Burger King and a Carl's Jr. and a little shop that had rocks for sale....except come January and February there are 250,000 motor homes and travel trailers that are in this little town...just parked anywhere in the desert they want...about 600,000 people we were told and the lines are out the door at these two fast food places....I guess people stop there, hook up for water and garbage and use it as a home base and then go off and do some traveling to the neighboring cities, like Palm Springs etc.  For $148 for 7 months, they get the water hook up and garbage...not a bad deal I guess if you like that sort of thing.  We were just shocked to see so many parked side by side and couldn't figure out the attraction...and we discovered...there isn't an attraction at all!