We spent a day visiting the Desert Botanical Gardens.
Our local library offers free passes to local attractions, including the Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Zoo, the Heart Museum and other attractions. It's a very good deal (it saved us $36 today, and we've used the passes on several occasions the past year).
It's been several years since we've last been to the Botanical Gardens. I remember our first visit when we first moved to Phoenix. It was a hot July afternoon, and we had not learned the Phoenician sense to stay out of the heat. It must have been 112 degrees in the shade, and it was hard to enjoy the gardens when my first and primary thoughts were devoted to basic survival skills and getting through the damn park to our air conditioned car.
You'd think we'd learned our lesson, but a few years later, I was in the DBG with my sister, this time in late May, the temperature was around 105 degrees, and again our primary thoughts were of survival.
What a difference a few years make. We've learned the local common sense of staying out of the damn heat when is damn hot outside, and save trips to the DBG for cooler months. In early November, the temperature was a mild 72 degrees, many of the plant species were in bloom, and the whole experience was much more enjoyable.
The one thing we have yet to learn as Phoenix residents is that the sun will still burn you, even in the winter. Being so cool, we didn't wear hats and we didn't put on any sun block. Thus we both got some pretty serious sunburn over the course of two hours.
The learning curve continues.
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