Few Days of Phoenix

After our jam packed but fun weekend in the San Francisco Bay area, we took a fourteen hour drive to Phoenix to visit some friends, stopping momentarily along the way in Barstow, CA so that I could reminisce about my 1st through 3rd grade barely-remembered years.

Aside from checking out the awesome view of "the valley" from South Mountain and visiting the SeaLife Aquarium, this leg of our trip was almost entirely about spending time with people we don't get to see much. It was rather great. We miss it already.



Though he's a little guy (not quite eighteen months old), Mitch here was one of our biggest reasons for staying in the PHX area for a bit. The son of a close friend, he is such a cool little dude. SO glad we stopped to see him. Probably the next time we get to see him he will be breaking hearts in preschool.



One of many pictures that will eventually be in the trip album, I post it now because I find it interesting. It is Shelby at the aquarium reaching for a sting ray. It was taken on a diagonal and so had to be rotated, but the lighting from the tank I thought was neat.



This morning, we have awakened in Tucson, my childhood home until I was four, and the home of much of our family. We stayed as long as we could in PHX last night before hitting the road for Tucson. This part of the trip is also mostly about visiting, but we will get some interesting activities in as well.