The Arizona Experience

Megan's away for a couple of days, so I'm hijacking the blog today.
Those of you who have never been to Phoenix, in the summer, are missing an experience that you find in few places in this country. Today you'll get the next best thing.

Picture a nice, overcast summer evening.
Now, preheat your oven to about 300. (Yeah, you know where I'm going with this, but humor me.) While the oven's heating, grab your blow dryer.

. . . . . .Ok, the oven's hot.

Now, you're inside your nice A/C chilled house and you want to go out for a walk now that the sun's down. You open your front door (cue: open the oven door and think of that picture) to check out the temperature. (That nice warm blast of air is really what it feels like to open the door). Hmmm. It seems unreasonably hot, considering the sun has already set, but you notice the trees are waving a bit, so maybe the breeze will help. You step outside (you guessed it, turn the blow dryer on now and wave it around your face) and realize the breeze seems to be even hotter than the outside temperature. How can that be?
This experience is what kept us inside for most of our first summer here and made us wonder whether we actually had neighbors or not.
Since then we've accepted that it's just going to be hot and there is nothing we can do about it, so we've come to enjoy the Arizona summer in all it's fury. We love going to the zoo, going on famly walks, and most of all swimming! The pool is really the only thing that takes the edge off the heat and we never get tired of the water. So, if this exercise has turned you off to the idea of visiting us in the summer. No worries. Just bring your suit! We have a few pools down here.