A Guide to Joshua Tree: Our Desert Hideaway

Year after year on NYE, I begrudgingly put on a dress, go to a crowded location, and *try* to have a good time counting down to another year. When in reality, I just want to be at home, eating pigs in a blanket, drinking silly cocktails, and cracking jokes with friends. Well, this year, we did exactly that! My friend found an incredible house in Joshua Tree on Airbnb, so Len & I headed south to ring in 2012 with our fellow grumps. Between cooking dinner (a menu of hors d’oeuvres and seafood chowder), making boozy root beer, playing Uno and telephone pictionary, swingin’ (not that kind), and giggling over a big ol’ tub of “dual-purpose massage creme” (which we didn’t use, I swear!), the house provided us with amusement that could last us ‘til 2013.