Monday, September 25, 2017

Sorry for some of the errors in previous posts. Pops published before I had a chance to edit.
Anyway, we arrived in Phoenix last Friday afternoon. I called Mike and Mary and we arranged to meet for supper.  I took my broken phone to the Apple Store to get worked on and had to leave it overnight. Mike and Mary came to pick us up and to tour our RV, then we went to supper. It was a nice evening. Saturday, we went back to get my phone, happy days!  That evening we went to Mike and Mary's for supper. They have a lovely house in a large gated community.  Mary made a delicious lasagna and we had another nice vist.
Today we left Jax in the RV and we went to the famous Heard Museum.  It is an amazing place!  It a collection of art, artifacts and history of the Indians of the Sonoran Desert.  It is the largest of its kind in the United States.  The docent said that the museum is dedicated to the advancement of American Indian Art. But it is more than that. Besides the art, the museum presents the history of these people, sometimes from a first-person perspective.  It had a whole gallery devoted to the history of the Indian Schools in the Southwest, the good and the bad (mostly bad).  That part was sad.  The Native Americans who served in the Armed Forces were honored, too, including 300 nurses in WWI and WWII .  Of course, the code talkers were represented as well.  All in all it is must see if you are ever in Phoenix.