The playful grounds of Gray’s favorite hotel, the Parker Palm Springs, are a modern day fantasy with hammocks under palm trees, croquet and bocce fields, vintage umbrellas, and lemonade stands by pools. Gray's imagination ran wild, he began to envision an oasis of his favorite exotic animals living at the hotel: where you are greeted by a bellman monkey, can sip lemonade with Giraffes, play chess with Penguins and take a dip with Flamingos.