Arizona is damn hot

There are a lot of things that are so much different here than at home. For starters, the lanes in road are wider. You don't actually turn in at the business you want, you drive past it an look for the entrance to turn in to the whole strip, that's if you're allowed to turn that direction. There are no suburbs south of Phoenix. The next city is at least 20 minutes away, not just the next town over. It's wierd, but I am getting used to it.

Last weekend Dustin and I drove up Phoenix to see the Diamondbacks play, and to visit his buddy Cervantez. It was great, we left early Saturday, and it didn't take nearly as long as we thought it would, only about 2 1/2 hours. We got there, met Cervantez, who is also know as Alex, and Matt... we went downtown, got some Hooters, got our tickets, and drove over to the capitol building.

A few things about that, we took a picture with a cactus, and Matt looked at us wierd. We forget that these people have been looking at cactus their entire lives. Then we went to the capitol building, which isn't really where any of the work happens. The building on the left is the state senate building, the one on the right is the state HOR building, and the one behind it is the executive building. The capitol building itself is actually just a museum. We were going to go in and check it out, but it was 106 degrees, and we just wanted to go get some water. But before we did that, we stumbled into a sweet military memorial park across the street. It had monuments for each war, for different kinds of servicemen; jewish, catholic, purple heart etc... It was a sweet park that if it weren't nine million degrees we would have spent a lot more time at, it was really a take a picture and read it later kind of thing. But well worth sweating through an entire shirt... heh, it felt like it anyway.

Then we got A LOT of fluids, threw them back and went into the DBacks game. It was a very nice stadium. It reminded me a lot of Houston. It had a retractable roof, thank God. It was 104 outside, but a cool 78 inside, which was especially good since it was a late afternoon game. Ubaldo Jimenez was pitching for Colorado, which means I have now seen all the pitchers who have thrown a no-hitter this season; Dallas Braden, Armando Gallaraga, Edwin Jackson, Roy Halladay, and now Jimenez. We also got some good seats, since they weren't that expensive, and we got free mini stadiums of their spring training stadium opening next spring. It was a good game, the DBacks won 3-1, and it's another cap on the wall. We were going to go to Cooperstown after to get a beer, so walked past the Suns' stadium, and up to Cooperstown. It was quite a letdown. Kinda dirty, small, and not very cool at all. We waited about 5 minutes for a beer before I looked at D and Matt and said, "Bail?" They agreed quickly, and we headed back to Matt's house for some boozing.

We drank all night with Matt, his girlfriend Milly, his sister Kari (who we later found out isn't his sister at all), Koda, Wonky, and Jose. It was awesome, we drank a lot, played some pool, ate a whole box of Cheezits, and just had fun. We woke up in the morning, and hung out for a while before heading back to Sierra Vista, but not before stopping at Whataburger, of course. Another awesome weekend in Arizona.