Sterling Suite: Palm Springs

Monday, January 22, 2024

Palm Springs

Well hello on a rainy Monday. We're back from Palm Springs, from mine and Sophie's and Summer's first experience at a golf tournament. AJ took us out to the American Express Pro Am along with Sophie's godparents and their girl (one of Sophie's best friends Bryce), and I had a lot of anxiety about a 3 year old at a golf tournament where we need to be supremely quiet at times, but the girls did amazing.

I was a little sad that my favorite golfer (Kisner) was in the tournament but not at the Stadium course that day, but I still got to see a lot of great players, like Ricky Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau, Patrick Cantlay, and upcomer Akshay Bhatia.

Chris's dad lived across the street from the course and we got to be there and have the girls take a nap there and have dinner there before we went to the evening concert where Train was playing. Sophie and I had so much fun dancing on the grass during the music!

On Sunday, AJ and Chris went and did a round at a private course, courtesy of Chris's dad, and Megan and I took the girls to the Living Desert. The way that Bryce and Sophie can interact and play now is so cute. Sophie pretty much worships the ground Bryce walks on and wants to do everything she does (climb on the same things, jump off the same things), and pretty much follows her lead, but is also old enough to add her own ideas and fun too. (Watching them play hide and seek endlessly throughout the condo in the morning was adorable too by the way - Sophie is incapable of being quiet and usually shouts "I'm in here!" from wherever she is as soon as she hears you coming LOL).

We've done the Living Desert before but I never made it to the Australia habitat before - like the Nashville Zoo, you get to be "in" with the kangaroos (okay, here they're wallabies), but you have to stay on the concrete path, whereas in Nashville you get to wander around everywhere with them, pet them, let them come up to you, feed them, etc. Still, A for effort.

Notice her outfit? Sophie has a
matching one - courtesy of their dad LOL

We came home late Sunday night, which was so nice, and I had to marvel at the state of our supplies for simply 3 days now that we have two kids... if this was just me and AJ it would be just 2 duffel bags!