Phoenix Vacation--Day 7

March 15—Thursday

Andy and I had trouble sleeping last night so our morning got a bit of a slow start. Andy went and got us breakfast at McDonalds and we had plans to go to the Science Museum. However, once we got down there we discovered that all 3 parking garages were full and we figured that we would make other plans. We went back to the condo to see what was playing at the movie theater and the IMAX and there wasn’t anything that we all were really interested in seeing. Andy suggested going bowling and so we went and bowled at the Squaw Peak AMC. Deidra did awesome and we even got a couple videos of her bowling. She was so cute…she learned how to run up there and throw the ball. The first game we played without the bumpers and she kept getting gutter balls. Little Miss Perfectionist (gee, I wonder where she gets that from??) kept getting so disappointed in herself that we decided to put the bumpers on the next game. What was weird was that once we put the bumpers on, she totally didn’t even need them. She even got herself a couple of spares…she came close to getting a few strikes but that darned last pin kept being left standing. She did really awesome though and we were quite proud of her. The bowling alley gave us a brochure on doing a family league on Sunday nights and Deidra could get a Shrek bowling ball. We can do it even in Texas at any AMF, so it’s something we’ll have to look into. I beat Andy 3 games and he won 2 and he wasn’t like that fact at all. We had a ton of fun though.

After bowling, we went to See’s Candy and Deidra got some dark chocolate eggs and 2 truffles and I got a peanut butter egg and 2 truffles. It was so incredibly yummy.
We went back to our condo after that and waited for Andy’s mom and Hal to get home. They took us out to Cave Creek to this really nice Mexican restaurant, El Encanto, to have dinner. The setting was really beautiful. The restaurant went around in a circle and in the middle they had a little pond with ducks, geese, and turtles where the kids could feed them. They even had a real Mexican guitarista that played and sang for us. It was very nice. The drive out there was really pretty too.

Pictures are of the entrance to El Encanto, the pond, and the restaurant surrounding the pond.