Just got back from a little staff retreat at Highland Springs in Apple Valley…how much do I love the people I work with?? Thursday late morning we drove up and did a lot of work, then we swam, lay by the pool, relaxed in the sauna, ate a dinner we didn’t have to cook, played a little soccer, drank beers and margaritas and told a lot of very funny and very innapropriate stories (which I cannot relate here in mixed company) until really late.
I got up early in spite of the late night, the fact that I was still a little drunk probably helped with that, and went for a hike, it is such a beautiful place! The path initially went straight up…here is one of the views:
And I believe this is what I would look like if I could ever find the courage to get up onto a pair of stilts…
Walked and ran back down, had breakfast, did some more work, swam, laid by the pool, relaxed in the sauna…mmm….lovely.
We had seen the signs for a cherry festival in Beaumont, so we decided to stop on the way back home and pick up some cherries, and some pies, and some funnel cake and who knew what else? There was a little carnival but the first thing that met our eyes was this shining example of carnie culture…
And guess who else was there?
Yep…God. We were pretty excited until we found out that not only was it $5 to get in, but that with all of our crazy weather, and possibly global warming, there were in fact no cherries. Although tempted to pay $5 just to ask God how he could allow a tragedy like this to happen and possibly hit him in the eye, I sadly piled back into the car and Bev drove off. At the edge of Beaumont we passed El Rancho restaurant and cocktails,
But no one else was feeling the same uncontrollable urge to stop there and fill up on MGD so we continued on, back to home sweet home…
Disgusting que no? Just imagine what the inside of my lungs looks like breathing in all of this crap! Everytime I come back to LA I ask myself, why oh why do I live here? Soon, soon I’ll be gone. That little white flash of light middle left is Gehry’s Disney Hall by the way, isn’t it shiny? I live about 10 blocks from there, in the heart of the smoggy darkness…