Preparing for Palm Springs, a Quick Weekend Getaway From LA

Palm Springs is a desert region about 2 hours outside of Los Angeles. Wait, now that makes me think.. Who did they think they were fooling by putting a noun that relates to water in the name of that dry as ever area?! I don’t know, maybe I’ll see some springs while in Palm Springs, or find out why it’s called Palm Springs.

This is my first time going to Palm Springs.

Darn, look at me lying. A Halloween or so ago, the Bompton born-and-bred rapper, YG, threw a costume party out in the direction of Palm Springs. I’d have to look thru my iMessage history or Instagram archive to get the exact whereabouts, but it was basically in Palm Springs.

We met up at a house in (or near) Culver City, to board a party bus with two of YG’s special guests, the rather provocative Instagram personalities, the Clermont Twins. On the party bus to YG’s Halloween party in Palm Springs, accompanied by other popular racey girls on Instagram like Matte Brand owner Briana Wilson, we took shots and twerked.

We arrived to YG’s party location in Palm Springs on the bus, we into the party, partied, left and boarded the bus back to Los Angeles.

That’s why I almost forgot about my technical first time in Palm Springs. It was a blur. That doesn’t count, does it?

This time in Palm Springs will count.

Staying in Palm Springs for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

I’ve never been anywhere near Coachella, and that’s no exaggeration.

Even though I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 5 years now, I’ve never had enough interest in Coachella to make an effort to go. I’m an outlier, the average LA girl in her 20s is definitely interested in Coachella. And not only LA girls, but people from all over. Upwards of 200,000 people travel to Southern California for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

I don’t know if it was the talk of the blistering heat, or musical lineups that didn’t appeal to me, but I never got into the hype of Coachella.

This year, it’s different. I’m hyped.

I’m staying at Morongo Casino Hotel and Resort for FREE!

Yep, my stay at Morongo Casino Hotel and Resort for Coachella weekend is complimentary.

In my last blog post on this personal lifestyle blog, I told you all that I’m getting into a different type of gig, and I am, I promise! But I also said that these bills have to get paid honey.

When I received an email about working a series of events for Coachella weekend, including travel pay, daily per diem for meals, and being put up in a hotel in Palm Springs for four days, I couldn’t turn it down.

Currently, I’m typing this in the travel diary section, because it’s technically travel, but I started to put it under the work section, then I noticed this travel diary hadn’t received love in a minute, so heeeey!

Okay, we’re getting out of the car at Morongo now, gotta go! I just wanted to throw a blog post up here now because between working and partying in Palm Springs, I don’t know if I’ll be hitting that daily blog post goal this weekend.

I was planning to go into planning for a Palm Springs weekend, but wind blew me a different way. Ah well. Here’s a new lip gloss I bought for my weekend getaway; hopefully it’s a lucky lip gloss that earns me wads of cash tips this weekend working Coachella.

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