April
was a month of personal good-by parties and dinners. We finally got to meet fellow hikers’ Dee Dee and Lorraine’s
husbands over pizza. They showed us a
new restaurant in Tempe called Spinato's that had excellent pizza. Then we had a big birthday party for Mona Nussbaum and Phyllis
Vandewerker at pool-side with entertainment.
Later that month there was a regular Happy Hour.
We had several lunches with friends on the agenda scoping out a location for next
years “Secret Luncheon” for the girls.
And we had dinner with Howard and Linda Hudson (fellow Oregonians and
Letterboxers). They had invited several
other local Oregonians and we all had a great time…..even though the meal was
served “Oregon Ducks” paper plates.
One
of the lunches was a pre-“payment” for taking a couple to the airport (at 4:45
am) and picking them up a week later.
It’s just a thing we all do for each other around here.
Molly
and I took a couple days for a mini-vacation to Flagstaff to do some
letterboxing. We found
26 over the three days, and two "webboxes" by AZRoadie in some National Monuments, and one hitchhiker. We couldn’t find one just out of Sedona and notified the planter (from Missouri). She wrote back and gave us some defining clues, so on the way back be stopped and looked a little harder. We found it, but it had been moved and she was glad to find that out. She included in her clues the pictures we took of the new location.
Besides finding those Letterboxes, I carved and planted three called the "Hierogyphic Trail Series". I've been wanting to hike the 3 mile R/T trail for some time, and I found some art that would fit right in the the trails' name.
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| Letterbox location near Sedona |
26 over the three days, and two "webboxes" by AZRoadie in some National Monuments, and one hitchhiker. We couldn’t find one just out of Sedona and notified the planter (from Missouri). She wrote back and gave us some defining clues, so on the way back be stopped and looked a little harder. We found it, but it had been moved and she was glad to find that out. She included in her clues the pictures we took of the new location.
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| Hierogyphics Trail Letterbox carves |
Entertainment this month included a tribute to the Eagles called
“Hotel California” at
Chandler Art Center. That’s the first
time we had gone there. The location
was fine, but the group was a little wanting.
Next night we went to our old standby, Hale Theater in Gilbert to see
Alfred Hitchcock’s play “39 Steps”. It
was hard to believe that four people could make over 150 costume changes in too
many scenes to count in an hour and a half.
To say the least, it was GREAT.  |
| Willie Nelson and John Dever at the Opry |
To
end the month’s entertainment schedule, we went to the Arizona Opry’s final
show. They usually combine the best of
their yearly shows for the final performances.
The next night we went to the new Silver Star Theater (used to be
Broadway Palms Theater) to see the comedy “Butch Cassidy and the Sunburnt
Kid”. All of their shows are comedies with
a tongue-in-cheek play on a common title.
Our next one is “Pirates of the Scaribbean”.
It's starting
to get warm here in Mesa, but we still have a month to go….before we go!
