In the Neighborhood

We did want to run into town yesterday to pick up some insurance candy. We were pretty sure there are no kids around the RV resort that might be trick-or-treating, but we wanted to make sure we had some candy in the house just in case.

The community of Fountain Hills is just a couple of miles away from us on the other side of the hill. I had heard it was a very pretty little town with a nice park, so we went to take a look. The first thing we saw was this darling giraffe. With all of the giraffes on Facebook these days, I thought it was very appropriate. (I got the riddle right, so didn't get to post a giraffe on my home page, so I'll put it here.)

There were lots of signs around the lake asking people to please not feed the ducks, but this little boy wasn't paying any attention to signs...

This fellow named Albert, is for our Grandson Micah. It looks just like his...

We were a bit disappointed that the fountain the city is named for was not operating!

But then I saw a sign that said that it went off "on the hour" during summer hours and "on the half hour" in the winter. It hadn't gone off on the half hour, so we were hoping it was just because it's still summer here. We hung around people and bird watching until the top of the hour ---

The fountain actually stayed on for almost fifteen minutes. I'm glad we hung around long enough to see it. Afterwards we went to the nicest Safeway store I have ever seen! It may be that Fountain Hills is next door to Scottsdale, so has the same kind of shopping. The store was huge and it looked like it had gorgeous fresh produce and meat. Too bad we only needed candy bars this time, but we'll definitely be back.