Palm Springs / Orange County Vaca

Better late than never eh?

Caleb and I had a wonderful opportunity to vacation to the Oasis in Palm Springs CA. We have gone to a couple time-share presentations where they put you up in a nice resort as long as you listen to their 90 minute presentation.

Caleb is the king of saying “No” so he’s not phased by these things, it's ME that he makes practice saying no before the presentations, but then once we get there and listen I always want what they offer.

Even the kiosk people in the mall’s can tell that I’d buy anything. I usually wait until they are distracted with someone else before I sneak by. I really have a problem. I just can’t say no when people are trying to sell me something. Anyway, I think that is why the time-share people keep inviting us back. We get to stay in amazing resorts that we would have never had the chance to otherwise plus they give $75 MasterCard and a $30 gas card. We’d be stupid not to go, or would we….

We are now proud owners of Vacation International Timeshare and RCI, the world’s largest and most experienced vacation exchange company. =) Wahoo, we’ll let you know how that goes.

Anyway, more about the resort, the villas were so beautiful.

The resort had 8 pools and 9 jacuzzis.

The odd numbered pools were heated. (I don’t know why you would need a heated pool in Palm Springs but it was nice)

We had our own dishes, silverware, dishwasher, garbage disposal, 2 large flat screen TV’s, an awesome hideaway bed (like on Charles in Charge), a washer and dryer in our unit, a huge grill, and 2 beach cruisers (bikes) on our deck.

These are not our usual hotel’s amenities so we were pretty excited.

We stayed in Palm Springs for 3 nights then spent the rest of our vacation in Costa Mesa. We did Disney’s Give a Day get a Day and got 2 free ticket to Disneyland which we found out the week before that my little sister Kim and her hubby Jonny were going to be there the same day. We had such a good time.

Caleb is quite the photographer. =)

This picture is only funny if you've seen the movie Top Secret

The next night we met up with one of my best friends from California. Pete Mania.

I wanted to take Caleb to the Fox Sports Bar and Grille in the Irvine Center to watch some March Madness games but unfortunately it had closed down since I lived there 6 years ago... oops

The Spectrum is a lot like the Gateway, but usually it's warm outside.

There was this massager chair and head massager that Pete and Caleb REALLY enjoyed.

Here's some random shopper helping Pete figure out the chair.

Find Pete and I in the picture.

By the end of the night Caleb and Pete had become best friends. I made them pose like this and neither of them were happy, but you'd never know. Haha

Overall, it was a great vacation and a great purchase. Caleb had a little buyers remourse but I'm in love! We paid our annual dues early and got a free 7-day cruise, 3 other free vacations and 2 bogo flights. I love love love to vacation so I knew if I got Caleb to get this we'd have to go.... and it worked ;)