Food, desert, art

On Monday night, as we waited for a table outside the Pig and Rooster with the other hip people, we watched this food writer? blogger? photographer? taking pictures of plates the waiters scurried in and out with.

She looked like someone important, at least she acted like it, but Palm Springs is filled with glossy, celebrity-looking people during Coachella.  Maybe I should have mentioned the famous food blog "Feathers and Flowers," and we might have had a table quicker.  Ha!

For someone who likes cooking as much as I do, John says I'm not much of a gourmand, at least when it comes to complicated food. This Vietnamese-American fusion restaurant is trendy right now in Palm Springs, meaning: long waits for tables, tight seating, and noisy.  We found a couple things on the menu both of us would eat-- a shredded chicken salad with dates, and beef skewer lettuce wraps. Both pretty good. I also ordered a $10 appetizer of roasted brussels sprouts with Chinese sausage (whatever that is)  and it was awfully salty and tough.  

My photos are not that great, but then I didn't stand on the chair like Miss Smarty Pants. 

Last night was more our style of dining.  It's hard to get bad Mexican food in California, and this is the historic Las Casuelas Terraza in downtown Palm Springs.

Fajita salad for me, chili rellenos for John.   Both delicious with gracious service.

We were out and about in the rental car yesterday. Some of the cities south of Palm Springs are quite ritzy, like Palm Desert, full of gated communities, luxury car dealerships and high end shopping.  The Palm Springs Art Museum has a beautiful and free sculpture garden there, which we really enjoyed.

The weather perfection continues.  We're looking forward to our celebrity bus tour of Palm Springs this morning.