Spring Training 2016 - April 13-20

For the last 10+ years, my sisters and I meet in Phoenix for spring training and sister time.  The weather was outstanding, 85-95 all week.  No rain, no clouds, just blue skies.

We went to five different Cubs games.  They went 1-4, which was not real good, but it was fun to go to five different ball parks and be out in the sunshine.

First stop after we arrive in Phoenix, pick up the rental car, check in to hotel, is dinner at Bandera's.  We share a main course so we can each get our own Oreo ice cream sandwich desert.  Outstanding!!!

 The new Cubs stadium in Mesa.

 The first few years we went to Phoenix, some of the stadiums had Dippin Dots.  Now the only place that has them is a mall, so we hit that mall a few times.

So some stadiums parking is a long way from the stadium.  Some creative individuals have bikes with carts to assist the patrons.  We take advantage of that service and help the local economy.

There is an outstanding quilt store in Tuscon, so we go down there one day.  Driving along a highway against the foothills, we drive by this construction site.  We were not looking for it.  Tuscon Temple.  Looking on the web site, the architects designed a spire on top of the building.  They could not get the plans approved with a spire, so it was changed to a dome.  There is another church down the road a ways that had a dome on top too.  

And what would the trip be without a few "selfies" with the sisters?