October in Mesa

After a couple of days at home, we packed up again and headed south to Henderson, Nevada for the night of 30 September, on our way to Mesa. We arrived Sunday in time for dinner with the family at Grandmother's. Monday we had lunch with the Marlpit-Hill Boyntons. We shopped for food, tried baked goods from The Great Gadsby, walked downtown Mesa and the canal, shopped for wedding presents in Scottsdale, and tried some very good empanadas from República Empanada. I sampled the chiles rellenos from Si Señor (good, but no cigar), Matt and Kim took me to Adrian's, a Mexican hole in the wall, for breakfast, and we had a delicious German dinner with Chip and Sandy at the Bavarian Point very near Grandmother's. Friday we went to Victoria and Abdul with Ray, Lynna, and Bonnie in Gilbert. Friday afternoon we left Grandmother in Mesa and drove though heavy, rush-hour traffic to Glendale where we met the Youngs.

 Brazilian dinner with some of the family while Maren was in

town on her way home from Scotland 

 Nice Greek supper in Henderson

 A happy remembrance of California in the 50s

 The cylindrical scoops are iconic

 Cheese! Always happy to see this young man

 A mini family reunion at Sunday dinner

 Lunch with Marlpit-Hill Boytons

 Treats from The Great Gadsby (Jocelyn's in-laws)

 Morning walk in Downtown Mesa: Arts Center

 MacDonald Historic neighborhood

 Mesa/Phoenix Lightrail

 Mesa Temple

 Shopping for Olivia's wedding present in Scottsdale

 República Empanada, purveyors of delicious Puerto Rican empanadas

Very 1960s German restaurant with wonderful food

 

 

Jägerschnitzel mit spätzle: lecker!

 Heuvos Rancheros were delicious and the chilaquiles are to die for

 Trader Joe's

 Harvest moon over Mesa on a morning walk

 Delicate cactus bloom

Always something in bloom in the desert

 

 Such wonderful texture

 I love palm trees because they remind me of my youth in LA

 Afternoon at the flicker pictures

We spent the weekend with the Youngs in Peoria. That will be the next post, but this all for now.

OXO

D.