Tis the Season

One of the fun things about being in Arizona is having the chance to experience another culture. These pictures were taken at the Tamale Festival held in Phoenix Dec. 13. The sound stage featured this Mariachi Band and singer while we were there. Her dress is just amazing and the music was great! As you can see, the crowd had a great time sampling all kinds of Mexican food, from various types of tamales, to empanadas, nachos, tacos, and other things I was not familiar with. We got there early enough to buy our Christmas eve tamales, some for the freezer, and some to have for lunch. This lady is making empanadas, sort of a Mexican version of ravioli. We also saw tamales being made, and got a recipe to make 30doz. of our own, should we get ambitious!

We also went with our Fiesta Grande RV park neighbors to the local Electric Light parade in downtown Casa Grande. This is an amazing event. There were some 80 groups/floats participating. You can see in one photo, all of us lined up on the sidewalk in our chairs, waiting for the show to begin.

I've also included couple of photos of our coach and site decorated for Christmas. Of course we had to have our chili wreath right in front.

AZ isn't Washington, where there is snow on the ground today. But it is a good place to be if we can't be with all our family. Being on the road isn't being at home, but then being at home is in soooo many places.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!

meanwhile, happy trails....