Chippy and Brian's Ride to Adventure: February 2015

1/22 – 2/13/2015 – MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC - We have been hitting the concert circuit among other things for the past few weeks. Of course each week we have the Country Jam at our campground, but we have also been traveling around to so much more. We attended our first Bluegrass Festival in Case Grande AZ which featured about 20 bands over three days and it was amazing. We also had a Kenny Rogers impersonator at the campground, who sad to say, sounded better than Kenny Rogers performance at Ocean City Maryland a couple years ago. Next our neighbors took us to an Old Tyme/Polka Jam which was quite different with lots of accordion music, which instilled childhood memories for Chippy when she was a blossoming prodigy on the accordion. For Chippy’s “Landmark” Birthday which of course was the high-point of our Month, I wined and dined her all day, with breakfast at a local diner then off to the Lone Butte Casino for some gambling, then a movie and a fine Mexican dinner at our local Cantina. A delayed birthday present was a dinner show at the Arizona Opry where we were totally blown away by a marvelous Willie Nelson and friend’s performance by impersonator Steve Weltz. This past weekend we also attended our first Renaissance Festival which was astounding as well as peculiar. We never realized so many people dressed up to participate in such an event, especially the ones that wore the full royal regalia in the hot desert sun. It was certainly an experience that we have now checked off the bucket list. Once a month the campground has a full moon party where we howl and the moon and cook over an open fire, what a sight seeing the moon rise over Superstition Mountain. We also fit in weekly hiking and daily visits to the gym to try to overcome the mysterious shrinking of our clothes in the hot desert sun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!