Accidental Genius?

Everybody knows that having a goal is important & vacation travel is a powerful thing to look forward to. We hadn't been on a real vacation for over 3 years & we were excited to celebrate Christine's milestone birthday ..... the one that we had missed out on because of the car accident that she had been involved in.

Little did we know when we boarded a flight to Palm Springs at YVR early Boxing Day morning that it would be a stroke of accidental genius!  

Even though we had already been through 2 full weeks of cold, miserable, back-straining snow-shoveling weather that we'd be missing the next 3 weeks of it!  All we knew is that we took care of being there for family Christmas events, & then escaping the cold for sunshine & warmer temperatures.

It was hilarious that, for the 2 weeks we were in Palm Springs & LA, the locals were so bundled in layered clothing while they complained how unseasonably cold it was (it was 15-22 degrees Celsius).  Meanwhile, we & a few other noticeable Northerners were running around in shorts & shirtsleeve shirts enjoying the sunshine.

Was a great bonus that we transitioned easily & smoothly from a 2-day Convention in Long Beach onto a week's Mexican Riviera cruise with stops in Cabo & Puerto Vallarta.  Was good to remind ourselves how much we enjoyed cruising & the west coast of Mexico!  Thanks to social media, we even coordinated meeting with friends who were in Cabo & PV at the same time.  

We highly recommend planning vacations in advance.  It makes handling tougher situations (like this recent crazy weather) easier to tolerate!