Memorial Day Weekend in Peoria

On Saturday 23 May, we did laundry and cleaned up at grandmother's and then headed to Peoria to spend a few days with Maren and Gavin and the boys. We visited, read, cooked, ate, watched a movie, played Wii, visited the Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, took some nice drives, and watched the boys play in the splash pool at Westgate. On Tuesday, Maren made a DELICIOUS Brazilian dinner and invited some Brazilian mission RMs from their ward and Charlie, Gavin's Brazilian friend from work. I'm sorry I didn't get any photos. All in all we had a great time.

Grammy takes aim with a Wii Nerf gun

Finn is always excited to have us play

Saturday evening supper at the Tokyo Lobby

Harry grabs a California roll

Chop sticks for kids with rubber bands (see below) help

A beautiful spread of sushi (mostly rolls, really)

Grammy reading the boys a story before bed

A Sunday drive to see the Phoenix Temple site
near Maren and Gavin's house

Memorial Day at the Desert Botanical
Gardens in Phoenix

Fauna amongst the flora

An added bonus: Dale Chihuly exhibit
(see the next post)

Yosemite Sam redux

The group under a ramada

A tall saguaro in bloom

Artichokes three for a dollar

A tapestry of lavender

Memorial Day evening at Westgate

Harry getting into it

Finn checking carefully for geysers

Westgate is a fun and lively place

On Wednesday we headed home - Winnie is always sure
we are going to leave her and wants in her bed long
before we are actually ready to leave

Goodbye to the Youngs

Thanks to Maren et al. for such a nice visit.

OXO

D.

P.S. The Chihuli exhibit follows in the last post of this Arizona series.