Peter has hit the wall so he snoozes the day away while Grant and I pot about the glamour pad, and start on our big glamour garage/ man cave project. Grant also puts up the new LETTER BOX!! yipee!
We take a cruise around town and visit a few stores and then back to the glamour pad to pick Peter up for the Palm Springs Christmas Tree lighting, the switch to be flipped by a certain Miss Carol Channing!
We are watching the pre-Carol entertainment when some crazy old lady with her hair in a fountain pushes past me to get to the special light flipping area - just as I'm about to blab out a stern "watch it lady", I realise that. was. Carol!...oh em gee.
Santa arriving in a blaring fire truck distracts the crowd so I abandon Grant and Peter and inch inch inch my way towards Carol. I have Carol fever! Mayor Steve says a few words, Carol flips the switch, the tree lights up, and incredibly all attention seems to shift to santa and his throne and Carol is abandoned sitting by the tree on a plastic barbecue chair!! what the!??
I inch inch inch my way to Carol, latch on to a couple of gushing queens, thrust my camera in their hand and CAROL IS MINE!!! We have the loveliest chat - she came to Australia once - she was in Sydney - she got mixed reviews -wait on - Carol and I are becoming BEST FRIENDS!! The miffed queens jam my camera back in my hand and our special moment is over - I can't believe it!! Alright, I admit it - I out-gayed the gays.
best. night. ever.
We head downtown to Las Casuelas for a celebratory Mexican dinner and magarita, and then its time for Villagefest! Its a FEST! ... In the VILLAGE! the highlight is the local church choir - they look like they were flown directly from the choir of hard knocks and are completely endearing - I LOVE them!
We're on a Christmas high so Grant takes us down to look at the house that the NBC Today show has claimed has the best Christmas lights IN ALL OF AMERICA!!!!!! bejeebers, I think they may be right. This house has fairy lights on every inch of the house, roof, garden and driveway. MILLIONS of fairy lights - AND they have their own radio station!! AND the lights dance to the tunes on the radio! Blimey!
We end the night by driving down Palm Springs version of The Boulevard where every house has extreme Christmas decorations - some people have a festive tableu in the garage with full theatre lights, animatronics and plexi glass for protection - It is EXTREME Christmas.
oh, and by the way, did I mention Miss CAROL CHANNING!!!!!!!!!???????
of course you realise we're now expecting carol to do a shout out (or whisper out) to us when we come to see her - has she invited you to join her after the show for cocktails?
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