What do you want to do on your birthday?

Josh celebrated his 30th birthday last week. I've been trying to get him to make a post, but the time just never seems right. So, I will make one for him. We spent time at the Borrego Springs Farmer's Market, eating fresh veggie burritos, picking out fresh avocado tamales for dinner, sampling loads of hummus & fruits, and stocking up for the week. California has such amazing produce. Borrego Springs has such amazing produce. After we had more bags that we could hook onto the stroller (which continually tipped over when left unattended), we listened to some live music and the kids ran and played in the grass on Christmas Circle (that's the circle the farmer's market is on).

Later that afternoon, when both children and I were sleeping, Josh took off for his birthday adventure. He's been wanting to climb this peak that we can see right outside our door every day now. Finally, it was time to tackle Indian Head! I woke up to find a note that he had gone and would be back by dinner time. We waited, looked at the mountain, but didn't see him (he'd be a tiny blue speck anyway). He called, he was winded from his quick descent down but said he'd be back in 20 min. Great!

All about the birthday mountain adventure: getting to the peak of Indian Head is going to take a lot more time than initially thought (he made it 1/3 of the way); lots of encounters with big horn sheep (there's a pic of the one he came up the hill and made eye contact with); it's incredibly quiet; on the jog back (on flat, desert sand) encounters with 2 pack of coyotes was enough to make you run harder and faster with your makeshift spear, just in case they decided they wanted to munch on a human.

What a great birthday! We celebrated his hike with avocado tamales and root beer floats around the campfire!

This first picture (peaks to the right) is where he hiked to. The second picture is the Indian Head peak where he intended to hike to! The rest are views on the way up.