Saturday

Here's a group photo at the conclusion of today's round at Grayhawk in Scottsdale.  (Raptor Course where they play a PGA event each Fall).  The good looking guys in the red and black on the right were the winners for the weekend.  We netted $4 each in the main game, and a few other dineros on some side bets.  Cal and Ron just couldn't handle the pressure

This pic is from the tee box on one of the Par 3 holes today.  (Double-click it to expand for a better view.)  While this course doesn't have ocean views, there's some spectacular scenery none the less.  It's especially suite when we think about the weather back home.  This one may spend some time as the home page of 4000 Days.

Dinner tonight was a stay-in steak BBQ at the condo.  We ate so much each of the two previous evenings that going out and dropping a few hundred more dollars had little appeal.  Scottsdale is cheaper than Cabo, but we have managed to challenge reason.  Our steak dinners tonight, inclusive of three bottles of wine, cost less than the tip for each of the other two nights.

The condo that we're staying in is in a gated-community just a mile or two from Grayhawk.  Serious luxury, but a step down from the single-family places along several of the holes at Grayhawk.  Then again, Grayhawk has open spaces on sections of both courses that were supposed to be built-out by now.  The housing economy in the PHX area still has a long way to recover.  If you have a few hundred K to spare, some nice property is available at significant discounts from previous asking-prices.

We head back early in the AM and are scheduled to arrive in Moline shortly after 1300 hours.

My next entry will be from the 563 tomorrow evening.  After my 3.4 with The Winniferous.

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