Enjoying life

Here it is March and February is now just a memory.  My goodness.  So what have we been up to?  Well, we've been to Reid Park Zoo and found it to be a nice place to explore.  We had gone there in December for Zoo Lights and the place was dark except for Christmas lights so it was definitely different seeing it in bright sunshine.  We saw this male peacock strutting his beautiful colors which caught the eye of a giraffe who rushed over and tried to take a bite of his tail.  The peacock jumped and all of us watching cracked up.

The four of us, Rick, Y, John, and I, went up to Mesa on the 24th to see the Mesa Marketplace which is like a flea market but with some really nice stuff.  If we didn't live in an RV, I would have loved some of the beautiful wall coverings we saw.  We did buy something.  I think you will understand why this turned John's head and why it is hanging in our RV.

After saying goodbye to friends, Bruce and Jenna, we were standing in front of our site when we saw this truck with two kayaks come down the road.  John made some comment about it and low and behold, it was friends Steve and Michelle whom we met in Custer, SD.  They were checking out the park as they had reservations to come in on Tuesday.  We were able to spend some time visiting before they headed off for Phoenix to watch Spring practice games.  Steve recently retired from the railroad and they are now on the road enjoying being full timers.

John and I had a rare "date night" on the 25th with dinner and live entertainment called Carnival of Illusion.  We were celebrating the 31st anniversary of our first date.  Sigh, I know . . . LOL what can we say, the date is special to us because it all started that one evening.  

John has been saying that he wanted to go see the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. What?? We don't normally do art galleries but for some reason he wanted to see the home of acclaimed Arizona artist Ted DeGrazia.  So with the tease that it was "free" and lunch was in it for me, off we went toward the foothills of the Catalina Mountains.  We watched a film on DeGrazia and learned a bit about his painting style and his muses, the construction of his home and the adobe mission that DeGrazia built in honor of Padre Kino and the Virgin of Guadalupe and got to view many of his paintings.  It was an interesting way to spend an afternoon.

We have seen friends, Jerry and Darlene, head off to other parts and soon friends, Ralph and Cheryl, will be leaving.  It is once again that time of year when people start heading back to their homes up north or for new adventures.  As for us, we will be having to stay here in Tucson until the end of April as John has some blood work that needs to be redone mid-April. Nothing to be concerned over but will need to stay put longer than we had planned.