Goodbye AZ!

We had a simply wonderful trip!  Lots of reading, which I never seem to find time to do at home, a great spa trip with my mom, a couple of great rounds of golf for Chris with Dave, and lots to eat and drink.

My physical weight is a few pounds heavier, but my stress weight is 1000 pounds lighter.

Goodbye sun, goodbye warmth, goodbye lizards and roadrunners (which I finally saw this weekend), goodbye little hummingbird babies in the nest outside the window, goodbye mama and Dave (see you in three weeks!).

See you soon.

Saturday Night Out!

Saturday was a great day - lazed around the house, went for a nice long walk, read my book (The Invention of Wings - it was really good!), and then went out for the night.

We started off having a drink with one of my old Directors at Target, who now lives in Phoenix and works at GoDaddy.com.  It was super fun - she looked great, so happy and energized about the new job.  Had a great time catching up!

We then went for dinner at an Italian Place in Scottsdale called Taggia - wowsa, wowsa, wowsa.

AMAZING.

I had this wonderful pasta with pancetta and green peppercorns, and Chris had a really fab pizza.  That was after we started with a Caesar salad and a meat and cheese plate.

Then!  THEN!!!

We had the tiramisu for dessert.  Well, it wasn't just tiramisu...it had a chocolate shell like some kind of souped up Ho-Ho or Ding-Dong.  And then he poured warm chocolate sauce on it.

Needless to say...we'll be back.

Bummer

I just came outside to read and it is unbelievably beautiful outside.  And we head some tomorrow...and it is going to be back in the 40s.  Super suck.

Fate Brewing

Had lunch at Fate Brewing after Taliesin -  but the beer was...just OK.

But it was a beautiful day and tasty eats!!

Taliesin West

We went back to Taliesin West this trip, and it proves to be as cool as it always is.  It was a good tour, and the weather was perfect - sunny, breezy.

They also had a scale Lego model of all of Taliesin West - see the last picture!  Very cool.

Friday!

Heading to Taliesin West this morning for a tour - haven't been in a long time.  Then to Fate Brewing for lunch, and the grocery store.

The weather is again gorgeous today - will be sunny and about 80 degrees.  If not for the sucking dryness causing my skin to shrivel, I could do this.

Benetar

Is it scary or awesome that we know all the words to this? 

AWESOME!!!!!