Happy Pride!!!!!

Well, here we are, another Pride weekend coming up as we sail into the silly season which will continue until Thanksgiving.!! Packed to the rafters - I knew we should've built that second floor. (Maybe not!).

All decked out for the weekend which starts Thursday with the arrival of Chris from Vancouver (welcome back). We are also looking forward to seeing all our regular Gay Pride visitors - Don & Jeff from San Diego, Rodger, Jack, Gary and Al from San Francisco, Kevin from Australia, Pete and Chris from England not to mention Alfredo from Italy!!!! Most are staying through Leather Pride Weekend. Mmmmm  I think there is room for a couple of more flags!!!

Tomorrow (October 31st), is our 12th anniversary of moving to Palm Springs! Nobody is more suprised than we are. Who knew we'd still be around after so long. A certain owner of another gay hotel gave us six months ("they don't know anything about running an hotel" he said). Well guess what? He's gone and we're still here!!! I suppose we might have learnt something over the years. Whooo Hoooo. Good for us and a big thank you for everybody who has helped us through

We survived!!!

It was a really lovely weekend with the S &  S group. I don't know how they do it. Friday (Saturday morning 6.am) and Saturday (Sunday morning 6.am) they were still up not been to bed yet .... boy ... they've got stamina which I had in my 20's ..... a long time ago.

Great to see you S &; S. Same time next year. I think we'll open the doors so you can all experience the S & S weekend. LOL!!!!

PS Is it really only 72 hours since Tracy, Chris & Pete from Salt Lake City, Scott from PA and Mike and Tony from Bournemouth UK left? Seems like a year.

The S & S weekend

I don't know how many of you know but, once a year we welcome  a group from San Diego. The S & S is for Suzi & Sara who organise the whole thing. We are full to overflowing for 3 nights this weekend god bless 'em. Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Bi and everything in between!! (The tweenies).

They are a fun group and actually a lot more interesting than some of our all male groups.It is the only weekend Stuart and I don't mix with the guests ... not because they don't want us, but they are a group of friends and we feel as if are interlopers!!! That's OK. We left them to their own devices and went to lunch at the Dickie O'Neals Irish pub here in Palm Springs for fish and chips. Give me Escena anytime. By the way, what they serve as 'chips' are not chips. They're French Fries!!! Not the same!!

Here's the menu for the weekend! You're welcome! The last thing on the list? - Fisting of course!

I assume Paddling isn't walking around in the shallow end?

Bee Beep!!!

We had a visit from a Road Runner a couple of days ago. Poor thing. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture but they are the most peculiar birds strutting around; a bit like a small chicken with less meat!

I say 'poor thing' because he was obviously distressed and disoriented. Mainly because we used to see him in the desert opposite which is now a parking lot and he doesn't know where he is anymore. He walked around the entire patio, panting with tongue hanging out. Stuart tried to give him water but eventually he found his way out. Jumped onto the fence and off he went. Who knows where he is now.

There is a Road Runner who is a regular on the patio of the Escena Bar & Grill. They call him Arthur for better reasons known only to them!!!!!