Today, Marilyn got to visit an old teacher friend, Nancy Olthoff, from Iowa Falls Schools who with her husband Craig, winter here in the valley at Sun City West. Only a 45 minute drive from our condo in Scottsdale to their place, we arrived at about 10:30 AM this morning. After a quick tour of their lovely home, we jumped in their van and Craig showed us every facet of each of the areas within Sun City West. We saw many beautiful golf courses and lots of recreational areas where residents could swim, play tennis or pickle ball and enjoy a host of many, many other activities. In the midst of the tour, they showed us where other mutually known Iowans live such as Jim and Cindy Herr, Joe and Sue Lynn Stiner and we stopped and visited Sharon and Dr. Bob Treinen from Ackley for just a few minutes.
After the tour of Sun City West, Craig drove us to the Phoenix Stadium area just off Glendale Blvd for lunch at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, where we had tasty margaritas and a great lunch. Before stopping back at their home, they showed us one last Sun City West village. Thanks to Nancy and Craig for a wonderful day and tour of the Sun City West area!
Yesterday, with 7,756 other people, we watched the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 with a solo home run in the bottom of the 9th inning. Not only did we see the DBacks skipper, Kirk Gibson, right in front of us signing autographs, we caught sight of Brett Butler, Alan Trammel, Don Baylor and Matt Williams, all former baseball greats. The Rockies have some former stars too but they were on the other side of the field and we did not get to see them. We sat just beyond the dugout on the 3rd base side and enjoyed ourselves very much. The vendors were very entertaining and colorful! Never saw a purple beard before.
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