Arriving in Phoenix & a Day Trip to Quartzsite

I have arrived in Phoenix!

We pulled in to my Uncle David and Aunt Sandy's on Monday night (the 14th). Grandma is renting a park model on for the time we are out here, but we couldn't move in until Tuesday morning (the 15th), so we spent the night at Uncle David and Aunt Sandy's, as they also live in Phoenix. Well, technically neither one of the places are in Phoenix, but rather in its suburbs (Goodyear, AZ & Surprise, AZ). Anyway, we got to Uncle David and Aunt Sandy's around 5 o'clock, caught up for a while, and then went to play trivia! The subdivision that they live in has a community center and once a month they have a trivia night. My cousin Lia, Uncle David, Aunt Sandy, and I were all on a team, and Grandma was going to just sit and watch, but another team was missing a person so she joined up with them. We ended up getting second place out of I believe 17 teams, missing first by just a point.
It was a lot of fun, and Aunt Sandy is a beast at trivia.

So, Tuesday morning I woke up and went on a walk with Aunt Sandy and Lia before Lia had to go to work. After everyone was ready we stopped by the bagel shop that Lia works at for breakfast (delish!) before heading to Grandma's. The place she's renting is nice and spacious, and we spent the day exploring and unpacking. We are in Happy Trails, which is a gated community 'resort' with A LOT of nice trailers that are all occupied in the winter, with just a few occupants in the summer. They have a large community center as well as a few outlying centers (one only a block away from us), two restaurants, three pools, and a golf course. Pretty fancy place. In the main community center is a library, one of the restaurants, a post office, a workout facility, various tennis courts and things, as well as quilting rooms and ceramics rooms and others. They also have a very large area for gatherings like bingo night, and a lot of other activities. There are things going on every day of the week almost all the time. Bingo or cards or arts and crafts or yoga or anything really, there is no shortage of things to do if you're into it.
I am the only young person here though, which doesn't bother me, but kind of makes me feel a touch out of place.
It's fun so far, but I haven't had a chance to do a whole bunch; we are playing Bingo tonight though, I'll let you know how that goes.

So the first day we went exploring and unpacked everything, grocery shopping and whatnot, so Wednesday we spent most of the day relaxing and picking up a couple odds and ends that we forgot to grab at the grocery store. Nothing too exciting but a nice break from the traveling and all the activities from the day before.

Yesterday, (Thursday) we took a day trip to Quartzsite, AZ. Grandma, Aunt Sandy, Uncle David, Lia, and I all met at the Waffle House for breakfast before hopping in Grandma's car to go to Quartzsite. It was about a two hour drive (20 miles from the California border). Quartzsite is technically the Rock Capital of the World, but is really known for their flea markets. The whole town is approximately 1,000 people in the summer and 50,000 in the winter. When you look down at the town from the highway it is just a sea of RVs. In town is a huge flea market, that was fun to walk around but none of us found anything that we really needed. It may sound kind of boring, but it was actually pretty fun going through all of the various things.
There were also a lot of RV dealerships there (surprise, surprise. The whole town was RVs.) so we walked through some of those and drooled over a few that we liked, although most were just too big. I'm talking four foot wide pop outs the length of the RV on both sides of it, crazy big.

A fun day exploring though! :)

Flea markets as far as the eye can see

One of the trailers we liked