This is the Rest of March

The rest of March was spent enjoying the visit of a wonderful friend, Joy, from back east. We enjoyed an exhibition Brewer ball game with her and Don took her sightseeing on his scooter. She's very brave--did I mention that? A mutual friend lives in Corte Bella and we had lunch together the following day. That was so great because they hadn't seen each other in quite a while. We ended Joy's visit with a trip to the Belgian restaurant in Phoenix. I love the food there and I can't say that about many of the restaurants nearby. I ordered mussels and french fries--my absolute favorite. Joy didn't stay very long but we hope she'll come back and spend more time with us next winter.

When Joy left I finally had to tackle those tax papers. I'm a Capricorn for goodness sake and it was already the middle of March. At that point I'm already thinking I'm late. It took me 4 or 5 days to organize the receipts and type up all the figures (neatness counts). Now I'm waiting for the results. And of course, I'm already saying that next year I'll start sooner.

I've been golfing more often than before. The weather has been so gorgeous and I need to work on much of my game. I have a good long game but I'm still looking for my short game. My putting must be buried somewhere on the course because I cannot get the ball to the hole. I changed putters and that didn't help. That's funny because when Don can't putt, he buys a new putter and, like magic, he can putt.

Somewhere in all that golfing and entertaining I had an Oncologist appointment. He received a copy of the results of the CT Scan that the radiation doctor ordered and agreed with Dr Smiley that I should have a PET Scan to see what that is at the bottom part of my right lung. As he says better safe than sorry. The PET Scan isn't taking place till the first week in May so I'll have lots of exercise of classes, Yoga, golf, bunco, mah jongg to keep me busy till then.

Don and I took Sophie and Ben to see Suessical the Musical and were quite impressed with the production and the Herberger Youth Theater. The ages of the actors in the company were anywhere from 11 to 19 and they were fabulous. It's one of the best shows we've ever seen.

The next time you hear from me it'll be April. Can you believe it? I'm in my spring cleaning mode so the house is in disarray--a mess, but I'll be so happy when there's a place for everything and everything is in it's place.

Mardi Gras Bunco Night

I volunteered to host the March Bunco Night and chose to decorate with a Mardi Gras theme. My friend from Michigan, Sandy, had just been here and offered to send me a box of decorations. I didn't realize it at the time but Mardi Gras had been over for a couple of weeks already. I should have chosen St. Pat's Day but that's hindsight. Anyway I took photos, mostly for Sandy to see but they didn't turn out very well. I can sum up the decorations with one photo of LaRayne. See if you don't agree.

Photos from Charlie with Arden in D.C.

Charlie sent photos that reminded me how nice it is to be in Arizona during the winter. We miss them both since they moved to the northeast in July but Charlie comes to visit us once in a while. He'll soon be celebrating his 32nd birthday. Where does the time go?

It's Catch Up Time

At the end of February LaRayne invited us to celebrate two birthdays: Kathie and Judy had birthdays so close together that it worked out wonderfully. There was plenty of food and drinks and we're always surprised by new tasty appetizers. Above are the birthday ladies.

Nancy's Birthday Bowling Celebration hosted by Cathey

To celebrate Nancy's birthday the Fitness Buddies, except for our Irish lass, enjoyed a delicious lunch at the Anacapa Restaurant on our Corte Bella campus. From there we went to the bowling alley in Sun City West. I wasn't able to bowl due to a thumb injury so I cheered the group on and took photos. I found out that taking photos in the bowling alley doesn't work too well...too dark.

Cyndi made this special "birthday cake" for Nancy. She made cupcakes and turned them into bowling pins and then constructed a bowling alley and a ball. People at the alley stopped by to look and ask about it. It was a work of art.

We had such a great time that some of us are talking about bowling in a league this summer.

Childhood friend comes to visit from Michigan

Sandy and I have been friends since 6th grade. We were maid of honor for each other's weddings. We haven't lived in the same state for 42 years but managed to keep in touch which is much easier now with email.

Sandy was my guest at 9 Hole Golf League on Tuesday. She hits a good ball. We did some shopping at Cave Creek on Wednesday but there was very little of interest. That evening we both went to Third Wednesday Bunco and she was the big winner.

Thursday we left early for Tucson to visit our friend, Terry Ann. We might have arrived an hour earlier if we hadn't brought the High School Yearbooks. They were too interesting and we missed our turns. We did the same thing on the way back to Sun City West. We turned a 6 hour trip into an eight hour trip, but we had so much fun we could have driven around all day.

While we were in Tucson we had lunch outside at the Tohono Chul Park. It was very crowded so we waited a long time for our food which was "worth waiting for". We shopped in their Museum Shop and I found lots of things to buy. Also we were able to take the tram at Sabino Canyon with Terry Ann and her cousins. It was wonderful. What beautiful scenery. We tried to capture it all in photos but I'm not sure we did it justice.

It was wonderful to spend time with an old friend who's still young.

Photos I forgot to post