Thanksgiving in Arizona

For Thanksgiving I got the privilege to spend it with two of my favorite people...my Grandma and Papa! My parents bought me a ticket to fly over to Arizona for the week to spend the holiday with my grandparents in Casa Grande. They spend the winters in Val Vista RV Resort, which my cousin commonly refers to as the "Old Folks Paradise". I hope that by some of these pictures you can begin to see why. The above sign I gave them as a housewarming gift, as they just bought and moved into a park model at Val Vista. We got a chance to make lots of memories this last week, from cooking with Grandma, Bingo, Gila River Casino, Swap Meet, shopping, eating at buffets, playing card games, hanging out with their friends in the park, laying in the sun and swimming in the pool...it was good stuff. We had record-breaking tempatures in the mid-80's all week, so that was amazing. I loved all of the cactus, they were so cool to look at across the desert floor. They just stood there, as Papa said, like soldiers, straight up. And a lot of them were really big, like in this picture of Grandma and Papa at the Casa Grande Ruins. Many of the cactus are over 100 years old. Crazy, huh? Okay, enough about cactus. On Thanksgiving Day, we got up and watched the parade, then we had our Thanksgiving meal at the Golden Corral with some friends, the food was delicious! My Grandma had cooked a turkey right before I got there, so we ate on that all week long...we love the left-overs the best anyway! It was such a sweet time to spend with my family.