We head back to Fort McDowell Indian reserve with a big casino and matching RV resort. We
Have stayed several times before, hard to get in, but close to Scottsdale where Mary & Mark have their condo apartment now. Also Apache Junction (AJ).
That night we drive the 30 miles to join ski pals Lloyd & Sigrun for mariachi night at their RV resort golf club restaurant. Lots of fun with other Calgary friends Mia and Don.
Next day we are up early for Mary & Mark to pick us up to enjoy Scottsdale. We can't park our RV there so they ferry us around on a scorching hot day to lovely lunch downtown, the annual Scottsdale Art Market, later cool drinks at the lovely McCormack Ranch golf club. Our RV temp hit 99 today, about 34C.
Saturday we have tickets at the local cinema showing the Live in HD from NY MET opera broadcast of La Traviata. The cinema is something else. Huge (or as Trump would say - yuge) lazy boy seats you get lost in. Traumatic getting there: my GPS takes us into the middle of Indian reserve nowhereland, the main highway ramp is closed when I find an alternate route, we run into the baseball parking lot traffic and finally into the cinema just as the movie starts! Later we drive all over the place trying to find our fav TJ (Trader Joes) and Frys grocery stores, home hot, hungry, tired and low in blood sugar! I make smoked mackerel pate, lobster bisque with catfish and finish with ice cream bars, light and easy supper for this hot climate.
We have good cable TV so watch PBS and TCM in the evenings. I take advantage of the pool and laundry facilities and have a lazy day at the resort, another 33 day and lovely sunset.
BTW when we arrived home from dinner in the dark the first day, a group of wild horses were there to greet us with their little foal at the RV resort entrance. Neat.
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