Tucson, March 2009 happenings

Max likes to ride in style and indeed he did. Exploring a Stretch limo after dining at Luna Bella in Tucson.
The "great one"got to spend some time with Oma and Opa and we all had lots of fun! He is growing so fast and has transitioned from baby to little boy.














While in Tucson we also Babysat for Marisa and Guy's "Furry Ones"e off on a well deserved vacation in Costa Rica. We all survived in grans style and welcomed them back.... and their dogs and cats even acknowledged them.
As to special activities I had posted our Hike for the ages and Philip posted our Bike trip to Douglas and the Chiricahuas already so I'll just leave it at that.

A what the Heck I have added another picture of that trip as well. ( Just to make you suffer)

Mom and I had lots of fun eating out at some of our favorite places but we also had 2 new dining experiences:
#1 Los Portales: A very good Mexican Restaurant on S 6th Ave. Their 3 course lunch special is just that "una almuerza especial" **** recommendation
#2 Desert Muesum restaurant: After many tries we finally made it and it was delicious. Food for all tastes and all of it tasted great and the venue of course is great as well!
Opa got one short 3 hour hike in up Soldiers trail in the Catalinas. Beautiful vistas and flowers and for the most part a very interesting and fun trail. Only the first half mile is steep with loose gravel and therefore bad footing. All in all a really fun hike with running water cliffs and plenty of flowers.
As for last but not least by any means:
we got a call from Hawaii with the a great annoncement:

Eric and Melissa are expecting their second child around October 14!

Wow great news and congratulations to Eric and melissa and of course Princess Megan!

I am closing now as Miss heidi needs to get out for her morning constitutional and then we are off to do our thing....... and that would be?
Going out to lunch with friends! I bet you would have never guessed that!
Adios Aloha and Auf Wiedersehen

A hike to remember

Here it is Wednesday and finally I can truthfully say that all my soreness is gone. What a hike...the Superstition Ridge Trail!
It starts and ends with but .75 miles of easy trail through flowering meadows and then hits you with some serious hiking scrambling up and down over mountain tops along immense hoodoos but with vistas unrivaled by any hike done this year.
Our intrepid little group of 5 did well in finishing it in just about 10 hours with no major mishaps other than being tired. Elated to be able to say we have now hiked every mountain top of the western Superstition Mountains.
11 miles in 10 hours with but a few short breaks. The speed of 1.1 miles per hour? As one of group said to Philip before the start: "Are we crawling are walking this trail?"
As a matter of fact we did a good bit of both!

The vistas included Weavers Needle, the 4 peaks region, the Sierra Ancha mountains to the east and the greater PHX area to the west!
Personally the view to the east was my favorite!
A great hike, great company and an accomplishment to be proud of and all of it is there for anyone to enjoy!