Jackie, Jocelyn, Hailey, and I drove over Saturday morning. Then instead of driving out to the desert through Julian we turned left at Santa Ysabel and drove out past Lake Henshaw. We stopped at the Santa Ysabel mission too. I've been passed there many times but have never stopped before. We looked through the little one room museum and at the artifacts and photographs there. Very interesting.
In Borrego we went to the park visitors center first. Hailey wanted a book "Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert." So got that for her. We walked around there for awhile and then we drove up to Coyote Canyon. Good place to see wildflowers. Then we drove back to a really nice resturant and sat on the terrace for lunch. Lunch was great. We had Chinese food and Hailey enjoyed Broccoli Beef and I had lovely Cashew Chicken with steamed rice. We shared our food around. There was too much for just us. Jackie got pork dumplins and Joyceln a noodle soup with lots of chicken and vegetables. So was glad they ate some of ours.
Then we went to a gift shop...what else?...and looked through the rocks and things. Hailey got a bag of polished rocks and a carved stone butterfly pendant. Jocelyn had spilled some of the liquid from the food Jackie had boxed up on her lap and wouldn't get out of the car. So I bought her some silver earrings. Hailey can't wear earrings now because she let her pierced ears heal closed.
Then we went to a gift shop...what else?...and looked through the rocks and things. Hailey got a bag of polished rocks and a carved stone butterfly pendant. Jocelyn had spilled some of the liquid from the food Jackie had boxed up on her lap and wouldn't get out of the car. So I bought her some silver earrings. Hailey can't wear earrings now because she let her pierced ears heal closed.
Then we decided to head back out of Borrego a different way than we came in. We went out towards Julian. We stopped at a monument to the Butterfield Stage stop. We talked about maybe driving there on another trip sometime.
This was the view of the mountains from the Monument
Before getting to Julian I had to drive up Banner Grade. That is one winding road. Not as narrow as it used to be but still dangerous to speeders. I took it nice and slow. We stopped in Julian but the wind was so cold that we didn't walk around very long. The town was full of tourists as usual.
We enjoyed seeing the wildflowers too but I got better photos on Monday. Still it was a nice trip over and back.
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