Palm Springs Village Fest

Palm Springs, California: Again this morning we woke to gorgeous sunshine. Sunshine and palm trees. What a wonderful world. We are getting into a little routine of going to the hot tub after our morning walk or run. (I walk and DT runs.) We are camped about 5 sites away from one of the many pools here at this "resort". The pool is nearly 90 degrees and the hot tubs (yes, there are two hot tubs at this pool) are 101 and 103 degrees - take your pick between stewed or boiled. After a shower and a little breakfast we are ready to begin our day. Never mind that it is by now around eleven o'clock in the morning!

Today we headed out to do errands at a shopping center on Dinah Shore Drive. When we entered Costco, it was a beautiful day. When we left the store thirty minutes later it was like a typhoon was blowing through town. We made it back to the car and headed back to the campsite. The wind was howling and things were blowing around and everyone was putting their awnings in and putting things away out of the wind. At five o'clock we watched the news from Los Angeles when suddenly it became silent outside. It was like someone had turned-off the "wind" button. The air was still in the matter of a minute. Strangest dang thing I have ever seen.

It was a good thing, because we had plans for the evening and were about ready to cancel and hunker-down for a blustery evening "at home" when the wind died. We went out to the Palm Springs Village Fest. Every Thursday evening Palm Springs closes down a large section of the main street, Palm Canyon Drive/Highway 111 for a craft fair. Village Fest a very nice craft fair and though we only came home with a few bars of home-made soap, there was a huge array of vendors and shop keepers selling their wares. Fruits, vegetables, breads, flowers, ceramics, jewelry, food booths, dog coats, paintings, weavings, painted light bulbs, time-share sales and even a booth with a Know-It-All-Rabbi!

Village Fest fruit vendor


Ask the Rabbi

The very personable Rabbi was chatting with everyone (and chatting on his cell phone too). Chabad of Palm Springs is quite famous as they have an especially beautiful mikveh and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Herman Wouk, a learned Torah scholar, often teaches classes at the synagogue. The big question the Orthodox Rabbi was asked in my presence was "Where can a guy get a good cigar in Palm Springs?" The Rabbi was answering the man as we left.

After our evening stroll through Village Fest, we had dinner at the Blue Coyote Grill. This is one of our favorite restaurants in Palm Springs, but we hadn't been back in several years. The Blue Coyote Grill serves the best black beans EVER. I ate so many black beans - but they are truly addictive.

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