Phoenix

Bagpipes from Poland

Most of Friday was spent on the road headed to Phoenix for Lisa Dierschow’s wedding on Sunday. The temperatures are above 100 again after all that nice San Diego weather. We made it to our campsite at Mesa Spirit RV Resort about 4 PM. This place is huge, but largely deserted at this time of year. It looks like they have lots of Senior activities that start up in about 2 weeks. Saturday, we picked up Lisa and Gary at the airport, did a little shopping and went out to dinner with the Dierschows.

            Today, we went to church, then after breakfast headed to the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. This was a great complement to the Grammy museum. Here they have examples of musical instruments from six continents and videos of those instruments either being made or played. As you approach each exhibit, your headphones switch to that video. We easily spent three hours there. The surprises were the variety of bagpipes that we found in Europe, South America and Northern Africa as well as the huge variety of basic string instruments and horns, many with unique shapes.

Lisa and Aaron

            Lisa’s wedding was at 5 PM. It was a nice ceremony, not very religious, but some nice symbolism like mixing two colors of sand. The reception was held immediately after. Since it was a small wedding, we ended up being the dancing fools for the evening.