Slideshow Index: Highlights

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• Kathy, Marie, and Bill Kidder at El Charros in Tucson
• Our seating area at El Charros
• Marie, Bill, and Kathy in Tubac
• I just like this one
• Horse drawn wagons for the parking lots
• Tubac entrance
• Arnie & Kathy in front of a saguaro cactus skeleton
• Loved this kid's statue
• You never know what you will find
• Our dignified rider
• Birthday girl Marie with their friend, Nick
• Kathy, Bill Kidder, and friend Judi
• Arnie & Kathy
• A table full of friends celebrating Marie's birthday
• First breakfast at our new digs in Green Valley
• View of our patio on a cloudy day
• Patio view looking west
• Rare rain day looking out our kitchen window well
• Corner lot view from the living room
• Happy Valentines Day from Arizona
• Watching the Tucson Rodeo at home
• Rodeo parade with horses and wagons, no autos
• Javelinas in an adjacent neighborhood
• Javelinas
• Snow on February 22nd before leaving for Sun City
• It is wierd to see snow on cactus
• Celebrating Kathy's 80th birthday with a hike on Estrella Mountain in SW Phoenix
• Supper at our favorite Thai restaurant in Sun City with friends Bob & Pam Geiger
• Bob is singing with the Ah-Men Singers at the American Lutheran Church
• Flowers and chocolates for Kathy's birthday from Rhonda and family
• The Santa Rita Mountains east of Green Valley
• Kathy on the Canoa Estates trail
• Arnie on the trail
• Some of the trees remind me of Italy
• Sunset on our patio
• Sunday Jazz at Brother John's in Tucson with Marie Kidder and Kathy
• The Phil Davis Jazz Band accompanied by BBQ and craft beers
• Watching the Minnesota HS Hockey tournament on internet TV in Arizona
• Driving into Madera Canyon 13 miles east of Green Valley
• View at the picnic area
• Stream at the Madera Canyon picnic area
• Arnie on picnic area trail
• View of Mount Hopkins
• Kathy and view of Mt. Hopkins
• Madera Canyon trail head
• Madera Canyon map
• Bocce Ball tournament, friend Dan Miller throwing a winning ball
• St. Ann's Church in Tubac
• Kathy in front of La Paloma, one of our favorite big shops in Tubac
• Bob & Pam Geiger with Kathy at La Paloma
• View of the pottery from the entrance
• Bob, Pam, and Kathy at Soto's Mexican Restaurant in Tubac
• Kathy and Arnie at Soto's
• This store is owned by relatives of Susan Ramlet's neighbors
• Green Valley Art Fair
• Kathy, Arnie, and Pam golfing at the Haven Golf Course
• Bob lining up his shot
• Arnie, Kathy, Pam, and Bob at Grill On The Green Restaurant
• Two javelinas on the sidewalk outside the restaurant
• Kathy, Pam, and Bob at the Pecan Store in Sahuarita, next to Green Valley
• Mike & Truss Gilbanks from Wisconsin have been tennis friends over the past several years
• Getting ready to start lessons at Desert Hills Rec Center
• Mike Touzeau is the lessons team captain. Terrific instructor!
• Dan Miller and Rich are two members of the instructor team
• April 1st in Houston - Rod and Debbie Johnson with Kathy
• April 2nd at the Houston Zoo outside Debbie's office
• Rod, Kathy, and Debbie at the zoo entrance
• Sea turtle in the aquarium building
• Kathy feeding lettuce to the giraffes
• Arnie feeding a giraffe
• Two large rhinos
• A large tapir
• These cattle from central Africa have huge, honeycombed, horns
• An elephant from Borneo
• The Comodo Dragon is a fearsome lizard
• The diamondback rattle snake, common to the Southwest
• A magnificent Oak tree in the zoo commons
• Debbie at work, assistant to the zoo director
• April 3rd at the Johnson Space Center - Kathy & Arnie
• One of the space shuttles and the airplane that moves the shuttles around
• On a tour of some of the Center's facilities
• The Mission Control Center was under construction and could not be visited
• First stop was the SAIL (Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory)
• Interior bay wiring - all testing of the shuttle is done in this facility
• The cables remind me of some of the network closets I worked in over the years
• Next stop was the ISS test center (International Space Station)
• The Soyuz module was the first main section
• The staff was working on several robots
• The third stop was Rocket Park. A Mercury rocket was outside
• Kathy and Rod in fromt of a rocket engine
• The Saturn moon rocket is 364 feet long, taller than the Statue of Liberty
• Here are the five engines at the end of Stage 1
• Stage 2 kicks in using liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel
• Stage 3 gets them to the moon
• The lunar lander, command center, and return capsule are in this section
• An Apollo capsule
• Inside the shuttle at the control console
• This one was carrying a communications satellite
• Rod and Kathy in the shuttle aircraft
• I like this decoration in the guest bathroom at their house
• Rod & Kathy in their living room
• A really nice kitchen
• Their patio
• A nice back yard for their dog, Kai
• It's a nice, new home in the south suburb of Rosharon
• On April 4th we drove to Fort Worth and the TCU Campus
• Tyler and Julia Peniata with Kathy in the Horned Frogs volleyball facility
• TCU has a super tennis facility - looking at the varsity courts
• The volleyball womens lockers - Julia and Kathy
• A look at the beach volleyball courts
• A recent photo of the TCU volleyball team
• At the football stadium
• This is another really nice facility
• The mascot is a horned frog, nasty looking
• The TCU commons
• Arnie high-fiving the team mascot
• Tyler, Julia, and Kathy at the Commons fountain
• We had fun driving golf balls here while Julia was at practice with the team
• Kathy driving a ball (straight down the middle)
• Tyler, Kathy, and Julia at the Fort Worth Stock Yards
• One of the large Texas Longhorns at the stock yard
• A statue of a rodeo event, dog roping
• This is a Fort Worth tourist attraction with lots of good restaurants
• Kathy, Julia, and Tyler at Riscky's Steakhouse