On the weekend when Chris’s parents were here, we decided to take them out to see the desert. We started with what one could think of as desert-lite, Papago Park, a park that is in both Tempe and Phoenix that has a variety of types of local plant life represented:
Blooming saguaro
We also re-visited the grave of one of the most popular governors of Arizona who was so loved he got his own pyramid:
We went to lunch at a fairly swish place called Fogo de Chão, which is a Brazilian steakhouse.
It is a chain, though actually quite a pricey but amazingly delicious chain. We had all previously been to the Minneapolis restaurant and this one was fortunately just as good. Highly recommended if you like beef and/or Brazil.
After what was a truly huge lunch, we decided to go sow them a wilder part of the desert in Mesa.
Here is the video:
The family that touches cacti together stays together. 🙂