Quick Trip to Palm Desert

The day after Christmas Chris had to take a trip to Palm Desert for work.  Since the kids didn’t have school we decided to join him.  The weather is simply gorgeous this time of year, you can’t beat it!   We were only there two days but we managed to do some fun things on our visit.  The first day we were there we went to the Living Desert which is a Desert themed Zoo.  We went there last year when we vacationed in Palm Desert for Thanksgiving and we really enjoyed it so we decided to try again.  Chris was obviously working so this time it was just me and the kids which proved to be a bit challenging at times but overall the kids really had a great time.  I lost Sawyer a couple of times but we managed.  Here are some highlights of our Zoo visit. 

They have a huge G-scale Model Train exhibit which the kids really enjoyed watching. 

 

The older kids enjoyed the Goat petting Zoo.  Libby preferred to stay in my arms.  Maddie was very happy to find out the name of this goat from one of the volunteers:  Madeline. 

Libby sizing herself up next to the big cats (and small ones too).  This zoo has a cheetah but this time we couldn’t see it, as it was hiding. 

The kids enjoyed posing on the animals sculptures found throughout the zoo.

This little boar was just Libby’s size.

This is really a picturesque zoo.  Just look at that view, its great to see the animals in their natural desert habitat.

There are some fun hands on things for kids to do here.  The boys are looking at an Ant display. 

One of my all time favorite pictures of Libby.

More hands on fun stuff to do.  They have a little playground area with areas to climb and slides and even sand and water.  Letting the kids run free was great until I lost Sawyer a couple times. 

Of course the Living Desert is full of beautiful vegetation and lots of these guys.

 

I didn’t take any more pictures of our trip but later that day we hit up the pool with Daddy.  The following day we hung around our hotel in the morning and then went to the Mall.  Later that day we picked up Chris and headed home.  It was short but sweet and much better than staying home and cleaning up Christmas aftermath.