Bidding a Fond Farewell

Sarah and I are in the Sonny Bono terminal at the Palm Springs airport, and our flight is delayed about 40 minutes. More than enough time to make a final wedding trip update, especially since I failed to male a post yesterday.

We started yesterday with a walk over London Bridge. A little weird, and obviously the touristy thing to do, but when in Lake Havasu City....

From there we turned south toward the Parker Dam. It seemed pretty petite and cute compared to the Hoover Dam. The road from the dam was a "scenic byway", so we stayed on it and were quickly rewarded with a wild animal sighting. That's right, we saw wild Burros. Including a very cute burrito.

The family of three was grazing about 50 yards off the road on a hillside. We stopped and took several photos. Very exciting!

From there we crossed into California on CA62. It was an 80+ mile trip through some foresaken desert landscape. We passes by several old military desert training area that were marked with monuments. I don't know if they are still used, but I could imagine our soldiers toiling away in the heat preparing for Iraq or Afghanistan.

We drove straight through to our hotel in Rancho Mirage just outside of Palm Springs. We were both happy to be done with any more major driving for a while.

Today we checked out of out hotel and caught an early showing of "Up in the Air", starring George Clooney. It was a pretty entertaining movie about a guy who travels around the country a a guy who fires people for a living. His life's goal is to earn 10 million air miles. He, of course, finds out this is not really what will make him happy....blah, blah, blah. I won't spoil it for you, but definitely check it out when it comes out on video.

After that we caught some lunch and killed some time by wandering around a mall and then an outlet mall. Yawn! Sarah did find herself some items at Victoria's Secret, but that was about it.

Now we are on our way home! We are both ready to stop living out of suitcases for a while. We are also ready to see the pets and get back to our normal schedule. I'll have to come back and read this the next time I feel burned out.

Anyway, thanks for reading during our great wedding adventure through the great Southwest.

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