We continued our archeological foray on Sunday afternoon traveling to the northwest of Gila Bend to the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site in Maricopa County, Arizona. The site, which is managed by the BLM, has many hundreds of petroglyphs that have been attributed to the Western Archaic Style, 7500 B.C. to about A.D. 1, and the Gila Style of the Hohokam people, 300 BC to AD 1450. It sprinkled most of the drive there and continued through the night. 

Rain on Monday and Tuesday kept things pretty quiet at the resort. Steve was kind enough to once again offer his weekly bridge lesson Tuesday evening

Kay got a well-deserved “promotion” in pickleball to the 3.0 skill level on Wednesday. This has been a goal of hers for some time. She will find the competition a bit faster, but should have no problems fitting in.  Norm and I accompanied the resort’s Easy Riders, an e-bike cycling group, on an afternoon ride. The ride took us around the Promenade at Casa Grande (a large shopping mall) and Mission Royale, a distance of 15.4 miles. At 9.7 miles per hour the pace was a bit too slow.

We had a robust game of Hand and Foot with the Bushes and Starrs in the evening where the women eked out a narrow win (they actually smoked us in the final round.)

I returned to the pickleball court on Thursday, playing a couple of games on the challenge courts. Challenge Court Play is that in which team may “challenge” the winning players currently playing on a court by stating their intention to play on that court when the match currently in progress ends. At Palm Creek there is a two-game maximum at which time the team having played two games must leave the court. Kay worked the check-in desk, and participated in an advanced training session. The HSV crew had a great happy hour at the Bushees with lots of good food, negating the need for dinner. 

Friday was another full day with a couple games of pickleball on the challenge courts, dinner, and live music featuring broadway shows. Dinner was unexpectedly very good; stuffed mushrooms for appetizers, salad, and Kay had salmon and I had osso buco for our respective main courses. A beautiful parfait was dessert (I didn’t eat dessert).

To end the evening, the “Broadway” concert was really good, particularly if you like Broadway musicals.

Saturday was a day of rest and relaxation, and we took full advantage of it.