Arizona!

It's a bit of a long story but New Mexico Jennifer and I decided it would be fun to visit Arizona Jennifer for the showing of the new Top Gun since we had seen the original together as high school friends. We made all the necessary arrangements: hotel and flights, only to discover that the movie release had been moved to May 2022!  Gah.

But we figured it was past time for a girl's trip anyway and did not reschedule.

The night before the trip, New Mexico Jennifer (I will call her NMJ from now on) started to feel ill. Not covid ill but still...not good.  By the morning it was clear she could not travel but by that time I was on my extremely early flight to AZ.  I arrived and got the rental car and headed toward the hotel, even though it was only 8 am and check in was 3 PM.

We were super sad to be missing NMJ for this trip we had thought about for so long!  But apparently she was sick enough to not even have time to feel sad about it for the first couple of days...so she made the right choice.  Still, we are going to have to do this again in May when the movie actually comes out and she will just have to quarantine herself beforehand if necessary!

I was miraculously able to check into the hotel at 9 am!  Felt like a Thanksgiving miracle!  I took a much needed nap while AZJ got her child off to school and such.

The next two and a half days were just wonderful!  We walked around Scottsdale and had a nice lunch on that first day. 

And then, when AZJ had school obligations with the youngin, I went to dinner with my Dad and Lottie. We went to a nice Mexican restaurant and I ate about 1/4 of my gigantic Chimichanga and was still too full. 

Day two included a lovely hike and dinner at a super nice place where we watched the sun set and ate yummy food. AZJ seemed to be worried that I was too out of shape to hike very far and kept asking me if I wanted to keep going. Luckily Frank and I hike some and also go on walks together so the hike was no problem. I surprised her!  I may be chubby but I can hike. ha! 

The dinner was overlooking a golf course and we even got to watch a wedding rehearsal take place. Food was good and we had a fun time just talking for a couple of hours. AZJ may or may not have scoped out the place for attractive single men. 

Day three we both slept in and then I went over to AZJ's house and we just hung out a bit. I got to (re)meet her son who of course didn't remember me (It's been a while).

The weather was just so fantastic the whole time. Low 80's with a breeze. Perfect.