Phoenix By Day…

Posted July 17, 2011 By admin

This weekend we had planned to spend a nice, happy, relaxing weekend working on the house and sticking around Yuma. However, you know what they say about best laid plans!

The midnight showing of Harry Potter was amazing, although Jess felt that it did not truly convey the true gut-wrenching emotion of the last book and was disappointed in the ‘lack’ of portrayed relationship between Harry and Ginny. However, still well done overall! The late night show Friday morning caused significant exhaustion Friday evening, and the two of us went to bed at 7 p.m. and didn’t wake up until 7 a.m. this morning. Much needed rest it seems!

The trip to Phoenix today was in order to take a lovely baby who was surrendered to our clinic to a rescue in hopes that he will find a forever home. The veterinary profession truly has to be one of the most emotionally exhausting, under appreciated, under paid professions in the history of man. Yet, there are those occasional good deeds and moments that make it all worth while. Well, mostly worthwhile anyway.

After delivering our boy to his new temporary location, we headed out to the Phoenix Zoo since Neal had never been. SADLY, living in the desert, we forget many things close early during the day, such as the zoo. We arrived at 1:30 to realize it closed at 2 p.m. Of course, they didn’t give discounts for shorter days! So instead, we headed to the Desert Botanical Gardens in the nearby area.

The gardens were ‘beautiful and hot’ per Neal, and we enjoyed many cute little ground squirrel and quail to make up for no zoo. Definitely something we would suggest!!! We also took a potted little Saguaro home for our very own to have forever! So we will eventually have a pronghorn cape from WY and a saguaro from AZ, some of our favorite things about our locations! Maybe we have to move to Alaska for a moose!

Finally we landed upon one of Jess’s all time FAVORITE breweries, Four Peaks. This is named after a mountian ridge near Phoenix. There isn’t a beer to dislike in the whole bunch! Everything is amazing. Their peach, 8th Street, Kilt Lifter, and Hefeweizen…all amazing. So good we got a growler of the Hefeweizen, which by the way has to be drunk in 72 hours. Anyone coming to visit?!