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 My
sister bought a new house several years ago but I hadn't been out to
visiter her and see her new house. It had been a long time since I had
been to Arizona and she had been out to visit me a number of times so
I felt like it was time for me to go out and visit her for a change.
Alcatel had given use the week off between Christmas and New Year so
I decided that it would be a good time to see her.
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 Nancy
took me around Phoenix on my first day there. The city was nicer than
I expected it to be. There was a lot of art around the city and a number
of pretty park like areas. Even the stores tended to have flowers and
fountains.
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 Nancy
took me to the Phoenix Art Museum which was much better than I thought
it would be. They had a number of minor works by major artists such
as Monet, Pissarro, Khola and O'Keeffe. The building itself was good.
It was open and reasonably good lighting. There was a Maxfield Parrish
there that was quite good. I had seen a number of prints of his work
but I don't recall ever seeing an original. The colors were spectacular,
much for vivid than anything that I had seen in the prints.
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 On
my second day Nancy took me to Scottsdale to see all of the artists
galleries. I saw a lot of nice paintings but nothing that I liked so
much that I was ready to by it. Still, one could be a nice original
work of art for several thousand dollars. The Scottsdale area was very
nice, with lots of flowers and parks.
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 Nancy
took me to Tempe, home of Arizona State University. She should me the
beach at Tempe which is an artifical beach built along an artifical
river.
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 On
my last day in Phoenix Nancy to me to a resort called Pointe of View
which has a restaurant on the top of a hill that overlooks all of Phoenix.
We went at dusk so we could have a drink and watch the sunset over Phoenix.
The restaurant was very nice and the resort looked like it would be
a good place to take Sally for a couple of days of R&R.
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