Keeping Active

The spirit has once again moved me to to blog so here is some of the news.

Our daughter and her family were here so we did quite a bit of touring around the area.  After all you have to keep a four year old and her mother active!  The weather was perfect the whole week.  Just over 20C.

We went to the Wildlife World first.  It was lots of fun with a boat ride, a train ride, a chair lift ride - not to mention many  animals to see.  We enjoyed feeding the giraffes.  Who knew Beth loves giraffes?!

And then there were ostriches and meercats:

 

As well as tortoises:

 

 

Next we went to the Children's Museum in Phoenix.  Sarah had a wonderful time doing all the activities.

Then we went to the Renaissance Festival again but with a child-friendly focus.  It was a good day and we found some neat rides for Sarah. 

Most of ther pictures we took had Sarah in them and I don't want to post them here.  If you know Beth, check out her Facebook.

We tried to go to an amusement park but despite its website (open every day!), it turned out to be closed, so we went to the Phoenix Zoo and it turned out that maybe it was a better place to go.  There were tons of neat animals.

 

 

We also went to Arizona Mills which is a huge outlet store mall.  You don't need to see the stores but they did have an aquarium that was enjoyed.

 

 

 

 

 



Since then, I have been to the Arizona quilt Guild Show with Dee from Airdrie.  It was quite large with a few  more vendors than our Saskatoon show but the number of  entrants in the competition wasn't much different.  It was held at the Mesa Convention Center.  We arrived about an hour after it opened in the morning and had to park in an overflow lot some distance away.  Need I say that there were a lot of people there?  We didn't buy much since the fabric was pricier than at our local stores.  We enjoyed seeing what the area quilters were doing though. Here are a few examples:

Today I quilted on the longarm quilt machine for the second time.  Dee recorded the moment.

 

 

We will be leaving here on April 1 and plan to come home up the western states and into the Lower Mainland until the weather gets better.  We hope that is before July!!  Get those hair dryers out and get that snow melted!!!