Sooooo we are in med school at the moment, which means the moola is tight ,so most of these things are free. Score!
1. Scottsdale Trolley. Hands down, boy howdy one of our most favorite things to do. Click HERE for their schedule. We always catch the trolley at the Fashion Square mall in front of Starbucks and we ride it over the waterfront, through the art district and get off in Old town. We like to meander through the streets and grad a bite at The Sugar Bowl. The girls love this restaurants because its all pink!
After lunch we take a short walk towards the civic center and park and always stop at the school house museum. Its a free museum that has an old class room set up, and lots of neat old toys and a kitchen. But my favorite part is getting to the LOVE park where the girls climb and play of all the sculptures while I sit in the grass with Nixon.
After that we just take the short walk back to the nearest trolley pick up and the trolley back to the mall. Usually we call it a day and head back home.
2. Scottsdale Train park. I'm sure you know about this because its like everyones favorite thing to do but I LIKE it but my girls LOVE it. So if you have kids go there. It has a train that takes the kids about the huge park, a carousel and a fun fort plus a great park area. It also has President Roosevelt's Presidential train that you can walk through for a small fee. The park is pretty bomb but I don't love to drive that far for a bomb park. But we will do it on special occasions.
3.ValVista Lakes. Ok so if you were to move here or like I were to move again I would move to this community. But you have to have friends that live here, and like you. Then they will invite you to come to their 7 tennis courts (with one center court), 2 swimming pools (not to mention one of them being a HUGE BEACH pool) right on the lake, wallyball courts and hot tub. This is what we do most Friday nights is play walleyball. And my heart jumps for joy just thinking about how much fun it is.
4.Strollerblade/skateboard/bike on Tempe town lakes. We just get off Rio Salado and park at the library and go across the pedestrian bridge, climb up the stairs with 5 kids 2 strollers wearing Rollerblades to get on the car bridge (where there is a WIDE sidewalk) and go across on Mill ave and around back to the park. Its seriously fun. Like sooo fun.
6. Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show. Last year there was a day that you could go for free after 3 pm. We loved being around the horses and enjoying our friends!
7. Hike Sedona. I suppose Sedona will end up allot on this list because its amazing. It is totally worth the drive and there is SO much to do. So this is just one hike of MANY amazing things to go do. But we went with our Friends Jenny and Skyler to hike Cathedral rock. You pretty much need to be a mountain goat to hike it but it is super rewarding with the views at the top. Although I loved the hike the whole time. We parked out aways from the actual cathedral rock hike so we were able to walk along the river and switch back through the mountain side before we started straight up the actual Cathedral rock mountain.
9.Exploring our city: Gilbert. There will be plenty more on Gilbert because its such an amazing city but for now we had to go check out the best breakfast in Gilbert: The Farmhouse. It was bomb and just walking around (boy howdy did we do that because the wait was over an hour!! For breakfast!!) SO it was fun to snap some shots and I would love to take family pictures there because I like the Urban feel.
10. Suns game. And go with fun friends that let you sit on the 4th row with them:)
This has been fun listing all the fun things to do here and I have SO many more. So here are the first 10 and I'll keep adding to the list!
