A Lovely Evening

Last night the three of us went out to dinner at Oregano's. It was delicious. I had the biggest ravioli that I have ever had in my life, and Werner had a fantastic pizza. But the best part was that they give kids a lump of pizza dough to play with while you're waiting for your food. Rand had so much fun squeezing and smushing and poking and stretching that pizza dough that when his little cheese pizza arrived, he didn't want to stop and eat it. I think it was the first restaurant meal with the three of us where we ate the whole meal seated at the table. It was wonderful! Rand was very sad when it was time to leave the pizza dough. I think that we will be making Play-Doh this week.

After dinner, we drove to Papago Park, which isn't really a park but more of a wilderness reserve. We took a lovely half-mile meandering "hike" along a little trail. We saw quail and rabbits and (of course) lots of bugs. Rand walked almost the whole way and stopped at just about every hole to look inside it. It was by the Phoenix airport, so we saw lots of airplanes. Every time Rand sees an airplane he goes through the same five phrases: "Big airplane! Heavy! Up high! Bump down! Bye-bye!"

The park is just far enough away from everything that it's very quiet and peaceful. It was a great ending to a relaxing Saturday.