Busy Saturday and Sunday

Saturday we picked up Sal and Russ and went first to the College of the Desert street market. There are over 300 vendors so Sal and I didn't do them all, but we had a good go of it, I bought an apron and matching oven mitts for the trailer, and a nice silver chain with a pretty pendant of a light green faceted stone set in silver to go on it, and a few other things.

I had already found some stick to it mats that work really well on your car dashboard, they don't have adhesive, just stick like a gel stuff, and you can set your GPS on it, or sunglasses, or anything you want. If they get dirty you just rinse them off using soap and good to go once more.

We also had lunch there, kosher hot dogs, and then when the market closed at 2 PM we went on over to La Quinta to their Art under the Umbrellas art fair. It was in old Town La Quinta, so very pretty buildings surrounding everything. I only bought cards, great way to get inexpensive art. Lary found a very nice tiny painting for our bathroom.

We ate at about 4 PM or so in the Hog's Breath Inn, a very neat restaurant in La Quinta Old Town, then whipped Sal and Russ home for warmer clothes, before going up to the Living Desert to see the Christmas lights, some 700,000 of them, lighting up their deserty areas. We also sat through a wildlife show that talked about some of their resident critters.

It was a long very full day that we thoroughly enjoyed.

Sunday we attended the Cabazon Indian Pow Wow, it was incredible, such showings of beautiful regalia, multi feathers, big bustles for the men, and very impressive beading on many of the costumes. Gorgeous dancing and drumming. Lovely day. Chilly when the sun slips down behind San Jacinto behind Palm Springs, and last night at the Living Desert we all huddled around 45 gallon drums cut in half, and used to enclose wood fires. Drank Cocoa and shivered in the chilly night, we were up a bit from P.S. and it was darned cold.