{"id":4180,"date":"2015-01-21T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2015-03-15T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:35:15","slug":"scottsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/arizona\/scottsdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next morning, I got up and Matt’s mom and I took a walk around the condos to pick fruit. I took pictures of cacti, because I seriously love cacti.<\/p>\n

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They had orange, grapefruit and lemon trees.<\/p>\n

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Seriously, how nice is it to be able to pick your own citru? I can’t wait to live somewhere warm.<\/p>\n

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I hung out on the patio soaking up the sun, and then we piled in the car and drove to Talking Stick<\/a> casino. The in-laws said they had amazing bloody marys. We had beers, since that’s not really our thing.<\/p>\n

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The casino and resort were really nice, and obviously fairly new. I was excited to read that they had craps there, but couldn’t find the actual table. I realized it was actually one of those craps machines with the giant Boggle-style dice popper in the center of the table, but that was alright since it seemed to work exactly the same as the normal game. Matt, his dad, and I sat down to play for a long time, and we all did pretty well.<\/p>\n

Afterward, we headed into Old Town to do some more shopping. We covered a lot of ground, and I had to resist buying everything at the shop that had everything southwestern-and-Mexican that you could ever want. (Especially since we were sharing one checked bag.)<\/p>\n

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Since we were right by the Rusty Spur, we decided to stop in for a beer again.<\/p>\n

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Matt’s parents were tired of walking, so they took the car and headed back while Matt and I did more shopping. And by ‘shopping’, I mean we mostly went to the tiki bar. Hula’s<\/a> was great.<\/p>\n

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Since we had dinner reservations that evening, we decided to take the bus back to the condo so we could change into nicer clothes. It dropped us off right across the street from the condo, and we went in to hang out for a while before leaving again.<\/p>\n

Our dinner plans were at Culinary Dropout<\/a>, which was halfway back to Old Town in the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. (It was this gigantic hulking fake-downtown looking thing, the kind that always makes me uncomfortable. We’d ridden through there a couple times, since the trolley stops there.)<\/p>\n

It was colder outside than previous nights, and I was wearing my winter jacket. It was funny to see people in a vast array of covered-up; there were ladies in clubwear, and people wearing full-on winter gear. It’s basically exactly how Minnesota is when it starts getting into the 40s in spring.<\/p>\n

The restaurant was great. It was noisy and the in-laws didn’t entirely get the menu concept, but their food and cocktails were excellent.<\/p>\n

Matt and I had considered going out again after dinner, but decided to just ride back and hang out with his parents instead, since it was our last night. We played some cards again, and then hit up the hot tub for one last time after they went to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next morning, I got up and Matt’s mom and I took a walk around the condos to pick fruit. I took pictures of cacti, because I seriously love cacti. They had orange, grapefruit and lemon trees. Seriously, how nice is it to be able to pick your own citru? 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