Thanksgiving in the Desert: Oro Valley and back…

We had such a fun time spending time with my Grandparents.  We didn’t have a lot pre-planned we just wanted to relax a little with the Grandpa and Grandma.  we did however find a 5K running race that was happening the morning of Thanksgiving so we signed up not knowing much about it and just decided to spend the morning doing a little work out.  It was really fun and we didn’t even know it was going to be so popular:



The race was the 17th Annual Thanksgiving Cross Country Classic and was located in a park that was near downtown Tucson.  Neither of us placed but we weren’t in it to compete, we just wanted to have a little fitness fun.  There were so many young children that ran the race and old grandparents who ran it with their families.  it was awesome.
That evening we had a wonderful meal hand-cooked by on of my favorites chefs, my grandma.  It was just us four and we had plenty of food to make a little leftovers the next day.  Thank you so much Grandma for cooking!!
Staying with the Grandparents is always fun, there is always wonderful food for meals or for snacks, you always get to spend time on the crossword each day, and playing with my grandpa’s new touchscreen desktop computer was pretty fun.  We talked Grandma and Grandpa into joining us in a game of mini golf and turns out Grandma is still a champion golfer.



Grandma, of course, beat all of us.  It was fun to see my Grandparents get out and do a little golfing with us.  I had a lot of fun just watching and playing with them.  Afterwards Tamanna and I took the golf cart for a little spin around the full 18 holes.  It was way fun to drive Grandpa’s little gas powered golf cart.  It was pretty fast for a golf cart.



We had a few more adventures in Oro Valley but to shorten this post up a little bit.  We headed back home after 4 days and we decided to take a new route home.  The grand canyon was a fun sight to see on the way down but we decided to switch it up a little and drive through Las Vegas on the way home.  This allowed us to see a newly constructed bridge that had been built right next to the Hoover Dam.  Grandma and my dad have been wanting to see this bridge so this is a photo collection that Tamanna and I gathered from the bridge.

After the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge we decided to jump on the I-15 and drive all the way home.  We loved our Thanksgiving break.  It was very fun and I’d like to thank Grandpa and Grandma one more time for letting us stay at their place over Thanksgiving.  Thank you!!