Mesa Market Place Swap Meet and Casino Arizona!

Well, today we had quite the adventure! DH remembered that while in "kowlage", he used to go to a swap meet on the weekends to look at interesting and fascinating collectibles. So we woke this morning and hit the net looking for such a place in the Phoenix area. Low and behold, we ran across Mesa Market Place Swap Meet.
http://www.mesamarket.com/index.html

If you click on the above picture, you can see the misters that spray a fine mist down the center of the aisle to help keep you cool while shopping! Very much an Arizona Thing! This pic was taken towards the end of the shopping day when the vendors were covering their wares for the night. We were told by a couple of very nice booth vendors formerly from Montana that we stopped to chat with, that during the winter, this place is absolutely packed with snowbirds every weekend!
We have been on the hunt for a metal wall hanging of a KoKopelli. It's a particular looking individual who plays a flute. We see them all over the valley here. DH just did some research on the name and it's actually a fertility deity! TOO FUNNY! Here is the link if you want to read ALL of what a KoKopelli stands for. "GIGGLES"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopelli


We walked around the Swap Meet for a couple hours until things started to look very similar from booth to booth. We enjoyed ourselves as it felt like we were back in Mexico. Almost everything is negotiable so you can heckle and bargain till you feel you've reached the best purchase price. DW loved it and wants to go back. Here are a few more things we bought for the backyard.


DH also found a cool tombstone and skull arrangement for Halloween that he just had to have. He arranged it on our buffet for the Halloween season. If you clap, it plays thunder sounds and the tombstone lights flash. Once it goes off, Muncie goes CRAZY barking and his bark keeps setting it off because it's sound activated. He is entertained until we can't tolerate the barking any longer! Phoebe doesn't react to the sounds, she just looks at Muncie like "you're an Idiot". We have to agree on that one. : )

After the swap meet, we were driving home and saw a sign for the Casino Arizona and decided at the last minute we should stop in and see how lucky we would be.

Within about 10 minutes, DW lost $10 at the poker machine. She knew she should have just played Blackjack instead! DH decided to try his luck at a Lucky 7 slot machine. He started with $20 and got down to $5 when he hit it big! He cashed out with $135! So needless to say, we stopped at AJ's and got (2) 3/4 pound filet mignons and wild rice for dinner! And there's enough money left to go back to Tommy Bahama's tomorrow for lunch! After all it is our one year wedding anniversary....... Hope all is well and we miss ALL of you!