Mark and I spent the day at the Desert Botanical Gardens and really enjoyed its spectacular beauty! I don't know why we had never gone before but glad we finally did. Pics below of some of the sights!
The weather has still been a bit on the cold side but today was close to 70 and perfect for walking around the desert. Would not have wanted it warmer. This week-end we will see 80 and there will probably be no turning back after that!
Spring training has begun and we plan to go to a game this Friday. We both love the sunshine, hot dogs and beer. Oh, and Mark enjoys the game, too. :-) I am more into people watching!
Next week we are escaping the Valley for three days and heading to Laughlin for some casino fun. We originally were driving to Vegas then decided to just do Laughlin. Less congestion and a bit more relaxing for us old folks! :-) Perhaps Las Vegas next winter!
March 13th Andy and his brothers are coming for a few days of BB fun. I thought that a perfect time to fly the coop and head to Peoria and see my daughter and grandchildren. I have been watching videos that Megan puts up of Ryan and we have been Facetiming with them and I am missing out on a lot of the stuff that I got to see Drew and Kayley do at that age. I cannot WAIT to get there! Mark is in charge of the house and the Thiel boys while I am away. :-)
Matt called and said he did The Trek up the Tower in Omaha last Saturday. It is a timed event that has you running up 40 flights of stairs. Yikes! He did well enough to qualify for the elite group next year so he was pretty happy about that achievement. I was just happy he didn't have a heart attack on the way up! I realize he is in great shape but 40 flights as fast as you can make it seems to be pushing it! And to think I was always proud of just taking the stairs over the escalator at the airport. Ha!
Pics from our day at the beautiful Botanical center"
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| Huge sculptures of the 4 seasons. Here is "winter" |
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| Mark deciding which way to go |
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| Sculpture of "autumn" |
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| Spring! (Summer didn't turn out!) |
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| Lovely little patio for our lunch. |
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| Gorgeous sundial. As you can see, we were there at 1:00! |
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| Glass sculpture |
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| This rock sculpture had a name but do you think I can think of it?!?!? |
