So, moving through the days till we do pre-ops on Tuesday and surgery on Wednesday, we've kept the room in Mesa ... a bit of a drive to the Mayos, but an excellent rate, good accommodations, close to a variety of good restaurants (McD to Outback and Red Lobster) and adjacent to the Superstition Springs Mall. And reservations are scarce in that area, a combination of spring training and spring break has motels packed. Restaurants typically have half-hour waits at 6 p.m.
Saturday we did the Phoenix Zoo. All day long. And it was a zoo! Families everywhere, having fun on spring break. The temperature was pretty comfortable, but these oldsters were pooped by the time we got back to our motel room. Faced with a half-hour wait at Olive Garden, we delighted in huge root beer floats at Baskin Robbins and slept the sleep of the ... frazzled.
Sunday morning we passed meeting with Friends at Tempe Quaker Meeting, then went to visit and have lunch with our Durango Friends, Bob and Nancy Dolphin, who winter at Friendship Village. They have wonderful buffet lunches there! Afterward, I felt like that fat prairie dog in the sun.
Then we joined 589, 365 other cars on I-10, heading for Tucson. We stopped briefly for our first Trader Joe's experience, then went on to my brother- and sister-in-law's place in NE Tucson. Sherrie gave us a tour of her latest encaustic art projects and we went to SE Tucson to dine with Mike and Beth and Abby and Karen. The oldsters were dead to the world by 9 again!
The tractor picture is just to show how old I am. The idea of tractors as playgrounds is a new one to me ... they were work implements when I was a kid!
The Sumatran tiger was clearly the star of our photo safari ... gorgeous! And we considered ourselves lucky to see the two koalas before they went home at the end of the month ... but they sleep most of the time!
Today we're heading for the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in SW Tucson and then back to Mesa and our motel room, probably to once again sleep the sleep of the frazzled. During the day, we should be pinning down our schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday.
More when we know it. tv
1 comment:
Hi,
Glad you went to the Desert Museum. I have very fond memories of it and enjoyed living "just around the corner" at Saguaro (Tucson Mtn. Unit).Lived there 8 years. The longest we ever lived anywhere, until we retired!
I have been thinking of the two of you a lot today, as I will for the next several days, I'm sure. I am certain there will be good news to report soon.
Love to both,
Diana
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