March 2, 2008

To the lake: What everyone should do when they are in the Sonora Desert – wake up a little bit early and go to the man-made lake! So David, his father, Lance and I went to Saguaro Lake to see what a lake might have to offer. The parking lot was jammed with cars and motorcycles but we found a spot among the other people that had bloomed with the desert. On a whim, David went to see what the cost to rent a boat and…. An hour on the water was just what the we needed to check out the desert cliffs, hills, and the distant mountains. It was a shame Mrs. Afzal was in Italy and didn’t get to join us on our excursion.

There will be blood: Oddly enough, none of us had seen the academy award winning movie so we drove into Scottsdale to catch an evening showing. Daniel Day Lewis definitely played a role that was amazing and worthy of an Oscar.

The most self-explanatory pictures ever taken:

Topics that required research during our daily discussions:
Adiabatic Cooling
Bernoulli’s law
Opium Poppies (Wizard of Oz)
Saguaro Lake
Altitude of McDowell Mountain Regional Park
22nd Constitutional Amendment
Yeast Mothers
Space Shuttle Heat Shield