Where has the time gone? This is what happens when we are busy. Time gets away and the blog is briefly forgotten. Now it is catch-up time.
Thursday morning we stayed at the campground doing some housekeeping chores as we awaited Larry and Joanne's arrival. They were coming up from Sierra Vista. When they did arrive we spotted them at the office checking in. After they had gotten set up we had told them to come over to our campsite for lunch. We waited for a good while and then called Larry asking when they would get over. Larry said that he couldn't find us. Long story short, they had gotten into an adjoining campground, a good camper showed them the way back to our campground and they finally got to our site. We ate our lunch sitting outside in the warmth of Arizona. After lunch we all went to the town of Tubac, the artsy town Tom and I had been at on Sunday. There was not an art festival here this day so we were able to maneuver about the stores more freely.
Friday we returned to the Sabino Canyon with Larry and Joanne. This is such a pretty area.
We took the tram up the canyon and learned more interesting things about the canyon. After the canyon we drove to the Saquaro National Park on the west side of Tucson. We stopped at the visitor's center and watched the 15 minute slide show that ended with the curtain covering large floor to ceiling window being raised to a glorious view of the desert outside. We then drove about the dirt road through the park. This section of the park seems to have more cacti than the east section. It was nice to have visited both sections as there are differences.
Friday evening Tom, Larry, Joanne and I went to cousin Patty and Braxton's home for dinner. We had a wonderful evening- a great meal and good conversation. We have had a nice time visiting Patty and Braxton and being shown some of the points of interest in this area. It had been about 2 years since I had seen Patty and Braxton, and a longer time for Larry.
We had been having beautiful weather in Tucson until today, Saturday. We had tickets to the Tucson Rodeo and today it decided to rain. Just as we arrived at the rodeo grounds it began to rain and the winds kicked up. Thankfully, we had brought rain ponchos along. Under the grandstand there were concession stands selling food and other merchandise. We wandered about this area getting lunch and waitng for the rain to subside missing the pre-rodeo activities. By the time the rodeo was to start the rain had stopped and the sun made a couple of breaks through the clouds. Obviously, alot of people stayed away today as the grandstand had a lot of empty seats. We did enjoy the rodeo in spite of the weather.
