Bummer!

We were looking forward to attending church this morning with our friends Colleen and Dennis. After all, that's the reason we drove to Tucson! I was feeling a bit under the weather this morning, but thought it was just getting up so early in order to have breakfast and meet them by 9 AM. But when the waitress set my plate of fresh fruit and my bacon and egg in front of me, I knew it was more than that! I ended up sending my breakfast back to the kitchen and calling Colleen to tell them we didn't want to risk giving them whatever bug I had managed to pick up. Forry began feeling a bit queasy as well, so we headed back to Eagle View and were home by eleven. Bummer!

These are some of the pictures I took on the way to Tucson yesterday. We were a bit surprised to see so many cotton fields that hadn't yet been picked. Cotton is a huge crop in this part of Arizona.

This is a field that has been picked with one of the huge bales of packed cotton --

You could see long "stacks" of cotton on the edges of some of the fields --

It rained steadily most of yesterday and part of the way this morning as well. It's quite strange to drive by the flat desert and see puddles of water --

As my friend Cathi's Brother Kent said, "Arizona drivers are NOT used to wet roads!" The State Patrol was out in force and we saw lots of stopped vehicles, but no accidents, thank goodness.

As we got closer to Tucson, we began to see the bike riders. The El Tour de Tucson bike race was on! We must have seen hundreds of wet riders on the frontage roads by the time we got through town.

This is the entry to the Westward Look Resort and Spa where we had a $95/night with breakfast Groupon coupon --

Our room was one of four in one of the outlying casitas. Pretty nice --

We still were a bit under the weather by the time we got home, so the agenda for the rest of the day was naps. We were feeling good enough by evening to tolerate mugs of chicken noodle soup. Let's hope tomorrow brings a better day.