Island Fever! AZ style.....

We trekked out on another adventure today to a little shopping area called Desert Ridge. We met up with our friend Tony last night & his girlfriend Debbie for a couple of drinks. We went to a place called Rock Bottom Brewery. It was a delightful place & the ambiance was incredible. This morning when we awoke we decided to head back and check it out in the day light. It is a great place about 12 minutes from the house heading East on the 101 & from a valley point of view about 20 minutes. Seems anywhere you want to go here in the Phoenix area worth heading to you, your average travel time is about 20 minutes. We walked around the strip mall & decided we were both hungry. We passed a nice looking place called "ISLANDS" & we decided this looked like a nice place to have lunch.

We had a great lunch & noticed they had a great menu for EXOTIC drinks. We thought when people come to visit that this would be a great place for us to take friends.

We finished eating & ventured out to see everything we missed last night in the darkness. DH was impressed that they have a "GREEN" vehicle you can purchase to drive around. It's called a TOMCAR. YEP you read it right. a "TOMCAR"

It looks like an over sized 4-wheeler, but It was awesome!

We walked around some more & they actually have a place for familys to stop & let the kids play in the water to cool off. We have seen this in numerous other places exploring. When it's hot your children have a safe place to cool off & enjoy the water. Anyone else who feels the need to get wet and cool off are welcome as well. "SHERI" lets make it clear right now that this a child friendly place. LOL!
DW decided that she was a little warm & needed to cool off her feet, Here is a photo of DW being a little kid.

It was so cute!!! We are surviving well here in the Valley of the sun & can't wait for our first visitors. We have soooo many places to take each and everyone of you that it will boggle your mind! We have noticed that the usual places to hang out in Slow-ah-Ton-ah have NOTHING to offer like Phoenix does. We are so glad we have decided to broaden our horizons! We both believe you're here only once & we will make the most of it.