Holiday wanderings

 We started to get ready for the holidays at home.    I ordered a live Christmas tree and Dave put up his favorite Christmas decorations.....I did a little cooking (but no cookies....) attended a car show where Tam was the star, and received a text from Pam that led to some fun holiday wanderings.   

French Pizza (JoAnn's recipe)

Pam and John were heading to Lake Havasu State Park for a quick, two day vacation to see the lights, did we want to join them?    DUH......of course we did!

site 2, seen from the water's edge

I quickly got online and was able to snag a waterfront site for three nights instead of two!     Yay.     Thus began our holiday wanderings.

Three days of visiting with dear friends, eating out each night, exploring the desert and walking amongst the Christmas lights.    It turned out to be a perfect time to visit, most people were home, getting ready for the big day.    We almost had the place to ourselves.

London Bridge by day

Dinners beside the London Bridge.   At night it was lit up beautifully!

We took a few desert drives, one looking for the infamous Desert Bar.....an off grid, middle of the desert bar with live music, dancing, and.....    We discovered it was only open on weekends, but we enjoyed the journey, nonetheless.

Another time we drove along the Bill Williams River, looking for what we could see.    The road ended rather unceremoniously, and we headed back the way we came.

We drove across the Parker Dam (after taking a few photos), discovered a whole family of wild Burros, complete with cute little foals and a memory rock wall where people had left small tokens and painted stones in clefts of the rock.

ahem.....

Someone wanted an unobstructed picture of the whole dam and found a "way" to do that.       Dave and John turned their backs so as not to be complicit in the guard rail breach.

 

love those fuzzy ears!

On our last evening, after dinner, we walked along under the beautiful Christmas light displays, along the river.    It was magical and a perfect start to our holiday.    There was even one spot where a machine was shooting out "snow" for kids and they were having a snowball fight!

Thanks, Pam, for a wonderful idea and for including us in it!   

We had such a good time, and this was just the beginning.     The next morning, we turned Beluga toward one of our favorite places - Borrego Springs - to continue our fun and impromptu holiday celebration.

I'll end this post right here.   Dave is a little under the weather today and I'm going to join him for a nap.    Stay tuned for the rest of our holiday.

Here's Annie!