Joshua Tree

Last weekend, Will, 3 of his friends and I took a trip down to Joshua Tree for some camping and hiking. I have never been to this National Park and I must say...for being in the desert, it was pretty awesome. The views were phenomenal. We got to the campsite pretty late due to horrible traffic getting out of LA. It took us hours and hours to get there. By the time we arrived, it was already completely dark out and we couldn't find a ranger station to double check our site number. We ended up just grabbing a campsite that seemed vacant and setting everything up in the dark. I am so glad that both Will and I know how to set up my tent in our sleep since we could barely see what we were doing. After tent set-up, I started the fire and we all enjoyed a lovely campfire talk and drink.

The next morning, we met up with 5 other people and hiked the trail called "Hidden Valley" in Joshua Tree. This was intended to be an easy hike with minimal effort. We ended up deciding to climb rocks and climb rocks we did. We actually scaled a mini-mountain. I hope this picture gives you some idea of how we climbed and how far we went.

This trip was definitely one of the highlights of coming back to LA so far. I love the diversity of this area (desert, ocean, all within easy driving distance).

More posts to come as rehearsals have finally started (as of yesterday) and we are slowly but surely getting ready for the big push to finish before we leave on June 10th for our first weekend performance in Boston, MA. This week should be pretty easy as we are still in the discovery phase of the show but as we progress, things will fall into place pretty quickly. I am so excited to see how we are going to develop the performance in such a short time period.