Arizona / California trip - day 2

We awoke the next day to a beautiful sunrise. This picture is from the balcony from Jen's apartment. But this scene didn't last very long as soon afterwards it started to, of all things, rain. Yes, it doesn't rain often out here but did it have to while we're here? oh well.

Soon afterwards the area that holds run off water in the apartment complex became very much pond like. During the normal dry season, the tunnels that you see in the picture usually is the hang out for the ferrel cat colony that lives here. Where they go when the area suddenly becomes a retention pond is still a mystery.

Maybe it's the fact that it doesn't rain often here but seeing rain drops on the trees was actually very pretty.

Jen had to work this morning so we hung out in the apartment until she came home. We decided to go out for lunch, then do some shopping at Arizona Mills, a huge outlet mall. heh. It was decided to go to a great little place called "House of Tricks" located in Tempe, AZ http://www.houseoftricks.com/

After enjoying a great light lunch we headed to Arizona Mills for some shopping and a movie. We enjoyed the latest James Bond flick titled "Quantum of Solace". The shopping wasn't complete success but Jen did manage to buy some very nice shoes. :) It was getting late and we were hungry. It had stopped raining so we decided to go to one of our favorite little places, Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe. http://www.fourpeaks.com/ This place is a great little micro brewery that has good beer and food. Because it had stopped raining, we were able to enjoy our meal sitting outside but under a patio heater. Afterwards we bought a six pack of their Kiltlifter brew and went home to crash.

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