Life and travels of the Dennis family…
Time to say goodbye :( to our fun-filled, extremely relaxing week with Cheryl, Tex, Jeff and Kurt. Thanks for a great time, we love you guys!! 
We had a blast in Scottsdale, but alas all good things finally do come to an end.
We sat by the pool again on Friday then visited the Renaissance Festival in Phoenix on Saturday. All three of us came home sporting a bit of a tan!
And finally, on the road again early Sunday morning with a few parting shots of the Arizona desert all abloom!
We spent Wednesday just bumming around the pool and generally relaxing and soaking up the Arizona sun. As you can see from the pics, it is absolutely beautiful. Sun is shining, the sky is blue, and there’s a lovely, balmy breeze that brings the scent of lemon blossoms wafting by…yep, pretty close to paradise. I told Gwynneth if I was any more relaxed I’d melt into the ground.
Today we were off to a desert location about an hour away to learn how to shoot. Tex has an array of firearms and was a very patient teacher. I’ve always been nervous about guns and after today I’m ready to take a class. It was really fun. I can really see if you’re having a frustrating day, it’d be fun to shoot your agressions out (at a target of course)!! Then we went on to Seven Springs for a picnic lunch. We ate, relaxed and hiked for awhile. What a great day, and there are still two full days left for sun and fun. We’re having a fabulous time!!
More later…
Well, here we are in beautiful, sunny, balmy Scottsdale Arizona.
We left the mountains and the snow and travelled to the lovely, winter Arizona desert!
Michael and Spencer drove last Friday night, stopping over in Ehrenberg, AZ, then onto Scottsdale on Saturday morning. Fay was still finishing up in Vacaville at the Graham Cooke conference where she had a great time with friends (still letting it all sink in). They picked Fay up Sunday evening; together again.
On Monday, Cheryl and Tex took us around to their antique malls in the morning and in the afternoon we panned for Gold in their den. That’s right, we struck gold in the house (they send away for Alaskan gold dirt). We had a blast and we actually found some nuggets and lots of flakes. Auntie Cheryl and uncle Tex let Spencer keep everything he panned, and with gold at $1,000 an ounce right now, it will add up. We’re going to buy some ourselves and see if it pans out (no pun intended).
Then on Tuesday we went to the Wildlife World Zoo in Phoenix. It is a facility dedicated to saving wildlife babies and raising species near extinction in captivity. It has a wordwide affiliation. What’s so great about it is the animals are actually roaming in big, open pens that emulate their natural habitat so you can get up close and personal while taking pictures and even pet the tamer ones, like the giraffes. Enjoy the pics!
Stay tuned…the week’s only half over (and of course, all we do in between is eat!)…more to come…
Finally had time to upload pictures taken since the Fall…
We finished home renovations in the Fall and have promised since forever to put up pictures for Michael’s sister Cheryl of the renovations and our new living room furnite (our furniture is now, oh, five years old, I think).
Then came Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
And then a BIG snow storm in February.
And finally our trip to Portland during Spencer’s Ski Week break.
And next we’re on our way to Scottsdale to see more family. We certainly are the traveling kind…
Enjoy!
Man! It’s been awhile. Can’t believe I haven’t blogged since Christmas…
Nanna, Spencer, Gail and Fay just returned from Portland where we spent a wonderful family week. I’ll upload pictures (although I think Chloe and Heather have pretty much saturated their blogs with that visit, but I might have a few more good ones to add) soon. We basically just hung out together and that was the pupose of the trip. We were so proud to watch Heather in her show at church. And so very glad to finally meet Baby Owen. Sigh…great memories…wish we lived closer. On our way home, hit a big snow storm going through the Siskiyous - 45 miles of raging blizzard type snow - we all felt like kissing the ground when we reached Redding!!
Fay has been home until recently on doctor’s orders resting the carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists, but back to work this past Monday waiting for a surgery date for the right wrist.
Fay, Gail and Nanna will be heading out to a Graham Cooke conference in Vacaville next Thursday and can’t wait!
The Sunday of the conference weekend, Fay will fly out of San Francisco to Scottsdale where Michael and Spencer will already have arrived the day before by car. We haven’t been to Auntie Cheryl’s in a looooong time and can’t wait to spend Spring break with she, Tex, Jeff and Kurt. Will have lots of pictures upon our return I’m sure.
Anyway, I’ll get pictures from Portland up soon and blog when we return from Scottsdale. We sure do seem to be on the move a lot. Ain’t it great???!!?! 