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| AZ Taco Festival |
For our third year of going to festivals with John and JoAnna, we decided to stay local (and thus make it cheap) by going to the
Taco Festival in Scottsdale. John and JoAnna flew in Thursday afternoon - Keith picked them up at the airport and that afternoon/evening we hung out in our pool, drinking beer and catching up. Shawna cooked a yummy meal of roast lamb, couscous, tomato/cucumber salad, roasted cauliflower with chickpeas and hummus with pita. The lamb did not come out as good as we had hoped but it was still tasty.
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| Chez Dodds |
On Friday, Shawna and JoAnna did the
Lost Dog Wash hike which took about 1.5 hours in the morning. The afternoon and evening was spent going to breweries and then testing our ability at Top Golf after too many beers! Our first stop was
OHSO on the canal where we had individualized pitchers of beer (served 2.5 beers each) for only $7 - what a deal! We also snacked on artichoke dip. Keith had calls for work so he met us at the next stop which was the
Cornish Pasty place where we had pasties, salad and more beer. We all then walked to
Goldwater Brewery where we tasted some of their beer and snacked on popcorn. Our final stop before heading to Top Golf was
Coach House which is one of the oldest bars in Scottsdale.
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| Coach House |
That evening, we played four rounds of
Top Golf with the girls winning three of the rounds. We snacked on pretzel bites and flatbread while continuing with the beer drinking. Apparently, the beer helped Shawna because she golfed the best she has ever done so far!
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| Top Golf |
On Saturday, we had intended on doing a hike in the morning but the weather did not cooperate as it rained for most of the day. Instead, we relaxed at home, planning some of our future trips. We went over to the Taco Festival around noon and tried many different tacos along with beer. Because it was raining, we mostly hung out in the bar tents, running out to grab tacos from time to time to bring them back to the tent to eat. We watched the pepper eating (which was hilarious) and taco eating contests and then being full, we finally left around 4pm.
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| Iceland Moon Walk Dance at Taco Fest |
Back at home, we hung out in the pool and then grilled some kabobs which we ate with the leftovers from Thursday night. We then played a few rounds of board games - Battle of the Sexes and I Love the 80s which were won by the boys. John wanted some port with our dessert so we had one bottle which apparently was a bit old - Keith could not get the cork out so we had to 'drain' the wine through a napkin. Surprisingly, it was still pretty tasty, although at this point, not sure if we would have noticed the difference between good or bad port!
John and JoAnna had to fly out early on Sunday so we had breakfast and relaxed a little before Keith drove them to the airport. It was another fun weekend filled with laughs!
