An Exciting Week: Part IV

To end the week of graduation, my parents decided they wanted to see Old Town Scottsdale.  In the 2 years we have lived here, we have never really walked Old Town Scottsdale.  I'm glad my parents suggested it.  Old Town Scottsdale is really a bunch of art galleries.  It was fun to walk into some of them.  We went to one gallery that had a ton of Norman Rockwell prints.  They were expensive.  Anyways, while we were their the gallery owner invited dad into the restricted section to look at a painting of Abraham Lincoln.  The rest of us were not invited.  Apparently Mr. Rockwell did some designing for Frederick's of Hollywood, as well as other fashion designing.

After the art galleries we walked into the tourist traps of Old Town.  Scottsdale's motto is "The west's most western town" and one block of old town is certainly meant to look like the Old West.  Then we found a gem, The Scottsdale Farmer's Market.  It is by far the best farmer's market I have been too, and puts Provo's to shame.  This market has more food vendors than craft vendors, and everything is really good.  We have actually gone back a couple of times, but now that it is June, the hours are from 7am-2pm.  While we were there we spotted a dog that weighed almost as much as I do.  It was big.

Saturday night we went to Los Sombreros for dinner.  After all, it was Cinco de Mayo.  That restaurant is fantastic.  Anyone who wants to come down and go to it, let us know, we will gladly go again. I was a little disappointed that my mom did not try the hibiscus enchilada, but the waitress said it was sweet, so I understand why my mom chose something else.

Sunday morning it was time to say goodbye to my parents, and I took them to the airport. Poor Ella did not like seeing them go.  She grew quite attached them, especially to my mom.  It seemed like all week long Ella was sitting on my mom's lap doing something.  She also played with my dad, and he was able to get her to laugh.  According to Kerri, after we left for the airport, Ella was inconsolable for quite some time.