Arizona January 10th--20th

Jan. 10th

We had our photos taken for the Golden Sun's Directory. We did the blog and uploaded pictures. Nice day 70 Deg. F I went to bingo. No luck !!


Jan. 11th

We played shuffleboard in the morning. At noon we went golfing at Apache Sun Golf Course with a group of friends. Gary and Dorrien (Saskatchewan) invited us back to their resort for happy hour. After supper we went to Arvid and Glenda's to play pegs and jokers cards. The girls are up by two games now.


Jan.12th

Cloudy and cooler today. Good day to do laundry. Ralph picked up some groceries. In the evening we went ot see the Dutton's---a family variety show out of Branson, Missouri.
Very good!! We met Al, a friend of Bruce and Ralph's from Sylvan Lake.


Jan. 13th

We picked up our Minnesota friends Jim and Gail for our bus trip at 7 am to Sedona and Jerome. Ralph and I overslept until 6:25 am. Woh,what a rush! The tour bus stopped once at Macdonalds for breakfast.Thank goodness! It was a 3.5 hour drive to Sedona--a beautiful picturesque town in the Red Rock Canyon. The 4 of us went on two trolley tours--one around Sedona and the Chapel of the Holy Cross built into the red rock and the other to Boynton Canyon. The red rock formations are breathtaking.Lots of picture taking.
At 2pm the bus tour went to Jerome (ghost town now). It is an old copper mining town built high on the side of a mountain. It is suppose to be the most vertical town in America. We had a nice lunch there.It was a long day but enjoyable. We arrived back at 8:30 pm. We stopped to visit Gary and Karen Howell after we got back. They are staying at Golden Sun for 5 days.


Jan. 14th

We went to the Mesa Market with the Howells. We had lunch and managed to do some shopping. We stopped by Filly's Bar--music and dancing outside among the Saquaro cactus and horses hitched to the posts.Quite unique!! In the evening we went to the resort's spaghetti dinner (delicious).
We visited Bob and Marilyn Odermatt at Merdian RV Resort. They just arrived from Saskatchewan.


Jan. 15th

We picked up the Howells and Odermatts and drove to Cosanti (wind bells) in Scottsdale.
I love these beautiful bells. We had a late lunch at Filly's while enjoying the music on a cloudy day. Ralph went to the hot tub with Gary and the Odermatts while I down loaded photos.


Jan.16th

Wind and rain during the night. The Odermatts picked the Howells and us up and drove out to Canyon Lake and Tortilla Flats in the Superstition Mountains. We listened to the band and had a hamburger. In the evening we enjoyed listening to karaoke singers at the Mirage Sports Bar.
Our neighbours Merv and Elaine sang.


Jan.17th

Bruce Overmann and friend Jack Roebuck (Champion AB) drove up from Bouse (2 hours away)
and visited in the afternoon. Bruce was picking Linda up at the airport in the evening.
The Odermatts picked the Howells and us up to go to Barleen's Arizona Opry dinner show.
The chicken dinner and show were excellent. Very talented musicans.


Jan. 18th

The Howells left for Tucson for 2 weeks. Ralph and I went in the resort's van at 9am to go to
Barrett Jackson auto show and auction in Scottsdale. Arvid and Glenda met us. They parked their motorhome there during the week of the auction. Arvid restores pedal cars, automobile signs etc. He brought 9 pedal cars from Minnesota and has them auctioned off.
It was an exciting full day of seeing one of the largest automobile auctions in the world in person.
Big crowds,lots of vendors and of course thousands of cars such as John F. Kennedy's hearse,Yellow Submarine and one of a kind speciality cars. We got back at 6:30 very tired.


Jan.19th

Ralph and I spent several hours shelling fresh pecans and a couple of hours squeezing oranges into juice. About 25 people went picking fruit today. It was a warm 70 Deg.F. afternoon. In the evening we went dancing at the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) with our golf friends. Good music.


Jan.20th

We played shuffleboard in the morinng. We met up with the Odermatts at the Mesa Market.
We went for a late pizza lunch. 72 Deg.F. Ralph went grocery shopping as I was feeling weary. We have been very busy lately. After a rest we did the blog.