LOCATION: Phoenix, Arizona
WEATHER: Sunny. High about 83 (record high)
Our daughter and son-in-law gave us tickets for Christmas to the Arizona Stong Beer Festival in Phoenix held today. Not wanting to drive after the beer tasting, we reserved a room at the nearby Wyndham.
We left the Air Stream at the RV park, and got an early start to Phoenix, about an hour northwest. We got settled and walked to the beer festival. There were about 80 vendors there, from all over the USA. The last festival we attended was a few years ago in St. Paul, Minnesota on a below-zero day. Some of the beer vendors had problems with their beer lines freezing up. That certainly was not an issue today! This festival had cooling stations place around the grounds. It is sort of like an outdoor air conditioner blowing wet frigid air on you. Heavenly!
Our entrance fee gave us forty 2-ounce beer pours. That is a lot of beer! We didn't use all of them, but certainly got our fill of some really good ones. We had a snack at a food truck place selling pretzels in the shape of mustaches.
This is what it looked like. This guy either passed out or is napping.
George wore his Surly t-shirt, which attracted a lot of attention. Surly is well-known among beer afficionados everywhere. He liked seeing this Model A.
We really had a great time, and really appreciate the gift.
We walked about a mile back to the hotel. The exercise did us good. George napped, then we went to dinner at the hotel's restaurant. It was quite nice. We sat in their outdoor patio next to a beautiful swimming pool.
A very fun day.....quite a nice change of pace!
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