Renaissance Glendale Hotel And Spa

... the afternoon. We will be staying at the Moana Serf Rider for 5 nights and then we will board the Pride of America on Saturday for a cruise around the islands.

Tomorrow and Sunday will be devoted to quilting as we are already packed!
It won't be long now!
Sandi

... a monkey, a lizard and of course… a butterfly. I mean, I did see all of those things there. But, I should have just left the tiles at the rain forest gift shop. But… there was this lady from Trinidad talking about something and buying jewelry and I couldn't really understand her and I got confused and 20 dollars later…I have these random tiles that I will claim I will used for arts and crafts, but will probably just keep in a drawer ...

... at the alarm sure was comforting though.

Now I'm off to Houston before my long flight to Tokyo. I can't believe I'm actually going to backpack SE Asia. Doesn't really seem real yet, nor has it fully hit me that I will be far outside my comfort zone. But thats what traveling is all about right? Learning something new about a new culture and about ourselves?

... and recharged our batteries, Phoenix is a very cute little city,Drove through sedona and flagstaff and stayed in a place called oak creek the red rock formations were stunning just caught them at sunset, sure i`ve seen them before in the good the bad and the ugly! maybe not, Didn`t see any indians,( except those selling jewellry on the roadside)

... of view of the tribes themselves, and we took a tour of the museum led by a young Navajo woman. Much of her talk centered on women's concerns such as jewelry and dresses, but she did a good job describing other aspects of the tribe’s cultural practices and history as well.

Back at the casita, we relaxed, walked the grounds and sat around the pool for the ...

... things to note - we got totally ripped off getting a ride to the cinema. We asked the hotel for a cab and after almost 30 minutes, finally a car showed up - not some beat up and cheap taxi we were expecting but some flash, shiny car equipped with a super jock wannabe behind the wheel. After all the $$$ we have blown so far, we were like WTF! This guy was running his own business driving people around from hotels and obviously had some scam with the hotel - we just wanted ...

Brenton, Jami, & I loaded up 'Maggie', our 1988 Fj 62 Toyota Land Cruiser, and pointed her nose north towards Flagstaff on Thursday afternoon; a much need break from the heat and a chance to see my favorite band RCPM laid ahead. It was not a typical early July afternoon in Phoenix, instead it was the kind of afternoon you would expect later in July. An afternoon where everything slows down because of the heaviness ...

... was able to find it, had one delayed flight that caused me to miss a subsequent flight and waited in line for an hour to have my missed flight rescheduled and bags tagged. In that one stretched out day I had my feet in 4 separate countries, my butt on four different airplane seats and only managed about 5 hours of interrupted sleep. The moral of the story? The best part about ...

After a trundle round the posh bit, Beverly Hills (nice lass, great tacos) we caught the odd glimpse of that pesky Hollywood sign and got lost on the freeway but not before we cruised sunset strip (in a mustang don't you know). So after all that we headed over to the fanciest hotel of our trip so far...and it wasn't even ours. We crashed in on big Sister and ickle nieces (a happy coincidence that they were in town the same time as us)for a ...