July 4th Adventure!!!!

July 4th Adventure!!!!
We had so much fun on OUR Last Adventure before Pat's busy Horse Racing Season!!! We left for Hot..er...Palm Springs on Thursday night. We had a room at a Cathedral City Resort. Resort is code for, POOOOOLLLLL!!!!! All this adventure was supposed to be was....R E L A X A T I O N...And we were totally there! The weather was perfect, for Palm Springs. 111 for the 3 days we were there. But, it was windy, so when you got out of the pool, it was actually cool. Until you dried off. Which was about, 5 minutes. Still better than Las Vegas. Wind in Las Vegas in the Summer is a Blow Dryer. Not, Cool!
So, I went and got the traditional, O'Connor traditional road trip snacks,

 Then we gassed up,

And we on our way!!!! They say, half the fun is getting there. Well, with us, we take FULL advantage of that saying! We always have the BEST time getting to our adventure, because, our adventure starts when we decide where we will go or what we will do! We use the analogy, the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland, the line is part of the ride too! That's how our adventures are, the line is just the beginning of adventure.
We stopped for Pat's favorite, Del Taco, on the way out of town.

When we got to Palm Springs and checked into our hotel, the temp was around 96.

So we decided that, we totally need to go to the pool and we didn't care that the sun was down. We stayed for about an hour and half, had a great time, then headed back to the room. We needed a snack, so.....

 The next day looked like this....

That's about it...We went and got lunch, but came back and did more of that.
For Dinner, YUMMO! BBQ!

Everything was so good, then we wanted to head back to the hotel to get ready for the Fireworks!

This is us getting ready for Fireworks! WE were celebrating! We sat on the balcony of our room, talked and "celebrated". Then we got our suits on, again, went to the pool. There we sat in the jacuzzi and watched Fireworks. So FUUUUUNNNN!!!! After, we went to our room and then started getting ready for Part Deux of our July 4th Adventure.

We woke up early, got packed and hit the road for

Ronald Reagan Library!!! We were both told it was a really good library, museum, whatever you want to call it. And it really was.

They had the actual footage of the assignation attempt. This is the suit that was cut of him in the ER.

They had an exact replica of the oval office when RR was in office. Washington is always in the Oval Office, but the president gets to pick what portrait it is. RR picked GW in his military uniform. Which is now displayed in the Smithsonian.

The seal on the floor and everything. He loved western art so the Office was full of sculptures and paintings. Then, AIR FORCE ONE!!! SO COOL!!!! You get to go inside!!! No pictures are allowed but, still very cool!

The sign says, PLEASE DO NOT lean over the railing to touch the wingtip...

SOOOOOO......

Before he was arrested, we moved on to the Marine One Helicopter...

Small inside but still cool! Then off to, of course, Nancy!

There was other stuff as we went through, the Berlin wall speech, his meetings with Gorbachev. Then we found this, and we touched it!!! Very Very meaningful.

The next part was RR and Nancy's life out of office...

Lots of belt buckles, pictures of the ranch in Santa Barbara..etc...My niece does not like my form, so when we go see here next week, I get lessons!!!!
We move on to the exhibit that's there now and it's, BASEBALL!! Really cool to see all the history, but this was the best....

Yep! THE CARD of CARDS!!!
We went outside to see the last 3 things we wanted to see,  F-14 Black Ace

 An Actual piece of the Berlin Wall....

 Ronald Reagan's Resting Place...

That's where we ended our tour. We headed to our car, drove to my mom's, we went to Chinese Food, hung out a little, then came home. The Adventure was complete...

The R E L A X A T I O N Adventure was a success!!! Home safe and sound...more relaxed than ever.
We love our adventures together and making unforgettable memories together.

Until next time all!!!
Enjoy the Ride!
Pat & Sondee