Phoenix travels

It all started about a month ago. Southwest offered half-price deals to select cities... Phoenix was one of them, and the deal was cheaper than the gas to drive there! Scott checked with his parents, asking them to watch Adrianna for two days and one night, and they said yes. He then went into super travel agent mode, and found us a $45 a night resort room and a two-day car rental at half-price for $86. Hertz couldn't get that rate to ring up, and finally got the computer to give us $70 (which, um, worked in our favor!). (I think Scott's missed his calling in HR... travel agencies should be fighting to get him.)

And so, we left our house bright and early Friday morning and arrived back late Saturday night. A few pictures might serve to display our travels.

First stop: Ikea. After two and a half hours, we left a little dumbstruck, but got some things I really wanted. Included were four 99 cent toilet brushes (I had been refusing to pay the $8.99 at our grocery store), a large kitchen rug, pillows for the aforementioned thrift store sofa (which just so happened to be from Ikea), and a new set of drinking glasses.

Dinner stop: Pei Wei (one of our favorites)... A phone call to Scott's dad (who went to PeiWei.com) helped us track down the location, after our GPS only knew the street name, and wanted us to drive up an down the street as our destination.

The fun Orange Tree Resort - where Scott said it felt like college kids were running it, like an episode from Saved by the Bell (the summer resort episodes). This is us after spending way too much time wrapping our new drinking glasses carefully to protect them from over-zealous baggage handlers. (We decided that a trip to Target closer to home might have been a little easier for new glasses next time.)The Oldtown Scottsdale Farmer's Market was a fun stop. We left with a loaf of chocolate cherry sourdough bread.... Yum. It was so warm in Scottsdale that the sample we had actually had chocolate oozing from it. (And the loaf actually made it all the way home before we broke into it.) A stop at Arizona Mills was our fourth mall stop. Whew. We took away one Adrianna-sized T-shirt and 2 pants for $1.99 each from Children's Place. Our final stop: Starbucks at the airport... Reving up for the flight home.
And finally, the drinking glasses... Every one made it home safely!

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