Aunt Sandy's friend Connie came here on Thursday, and has been visiting since.
We picked her up just before noon from an Aunt who lives on the other side of Phoenix (she was there for a couple of days before we picked her up). On the way back we stopped at a place called 'The Farm at South Mountain'. It was BEAUTIFUL.
When you are out here in Arizona, the cactus are really interesting but after a while you kind of want to see some green instead of the brown desert. This is the place to go. It's like you've stepped into an orchard in the middle of the countryside when really you're on the edge of Phoenix in the middle of the desert. They had a cute little shop that sold sandwiches, soup, salads, and various baked goods so we had a lovely lunch on one of their many picnic tables and enjoyed the great weather and atmosphere before walking around. In the Farm there were two other restaurants (a breakfast cafe and a fancy restaurant that served supper), a tiny gift shop, and plenty of room for a nice stroll.
It was a nice little retreat.
At the Farm
After we went to the Farm at South Mountain, we drove up South Mountain to get a nice view of Phoenix from above.
Friday was more of a relaxing/do nothing day where we spent the day visiting, but Saturday was pretty busy.
The reason, or one of the reasons, Connie came out to visit was to participate in a marathon on Sunday, so Saturday we needed to pick up her race packet with her information and race tags.
So we started off Saturday morning by stopping by the local farmer's market that is only once a month before hunting out the place we needed to get the race information, which just happened to be in a mall courtyard area that was hosting another, larger farmer's market. So we spent all morning at farmer's markets, but accomplished picking up the race packet as well before making our way to Gram's to check out a quilt show.
The people inside Gram's community put together a quilt show (of a pretty good size) that we wanted to check out. So we met her for lunch before spending over an hour admiring the hard work that goes into making a quilt.
One of the aisles of quilts
This morning was the marathon, and Connie did great! She met her goal and beat her personal best, coming in with the time of 4hr31min27sec.
If I had the willpower to run 26 miles it would take me a lot longer than that. To celebrate we had a relaxing afternoon and went out to supper at a great Mexican place (Guadalahara's), and ended the night at the movies.
Aunt Sandy and Connie at Guadalahara's
No comments:
Post a Comment