Phoenix and area January 22-28, 2022

At the fair Laureen got to pet an alligator.

We stayed in a casino parking lot in Mesa to be close to the Hulm’s hotel.  Sunday the 6 of us went to drag faces and watched a drifting competition.

In the afternoon, Laureen and Vickey enjoyed the pool while the others stayed at the races.

Beautiful and warm.

It was with a heavy heart we said goodbye to the Hulm’s Sunday night, but memories were made.

On Monday we went to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix.  It was a really pretty desert garden with Dale Chihuly blown glass exhibit dispersed throughout. I made a separate post for that.

Tuesday was errand day and we stayed in another Casino parking lot with a multilevel driving range across the street.  I have never seen a multi-level driving range before, just in the movies.

On Wednesday we went to Scottsdale for a Medieval Joust Dinner.  First time for Mark and Laureen.

 It was fun cheering on the Blue Knight and booing the others.  Laureen was given a flower

and Kim was given a ribbon that said “Queen of the Kingdom “

The meal was really tasty, and you ate with your hands. It was fun to drink the soup out of the bowl.

Our seats were right at the arena edge with a great view and luckily it wasn’t dusty.

Our Knight didn’t win but fun was had by all.

On Thursday Mark and Vince headed to the Barrett Jackson Auction.  Kim and Laureen did laundry.  Now is that fair ?????????

Mark will be posting that event.

On Friday we headed to Tucson where there are high wind advisory alerts and bad weather is starting to come in. We are camping on BLM land in the desert. Vince is catching a cold so a good time for some downtime.

Hope you are enjoying the blog. ❤