{"id":13389,"date":"2017-12-10T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=13389"},"modified":"2017-12-30T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T23:46:36","slug":"arizona-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=13389","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday – December 10, 2017<\/p>\n

We arrived in Phoenix, Arizona late last night to celebrate Jeff’s big Decade Birthday! \u00a0It was cold and snowing when we left Kennedy airport and we were happy to be going to a warmer place.<\/p>\n

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We booked our stay at the Fairmont Princess and were happy to discover all the holiday decorations and activities at the resort. \u00a0Today we drove into Scottsdale to explore “The West’s Most Western Town” and one of the “most livable cities” in the U.S. \u00a0The NY Times described Scottsdale as “a desert version of Miami’s South Beach.”<\/p>\n

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Downtown Scottsdale was divided into several commercial “neighborhoods.” \u00a0We parked our rental car in The Old Town and explored pristine streets full of upscale shops, galleries, bars, and restaurants. \u00a0A sign informed us that an “old historic” building was constructed in 1921.<\/p>\n

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We rode the free Trolley all across downtown Scottsdale and returned to our car an hour later. \u00a0The city reminded us of South Florida with cactuses. \u00a0We returned to our hotel to relax, have dinner, and enjoy the holiday festivities.<\/p>\n

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The weather was dry and clear. \u00a0It was low 70s during the day and cool 50s at night. \u00a0Perfect “winter weather”!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday – December 10, 2017 We arrived in Phoenix, Arizona late last night to celebrate Jeff’s big Decade Birthday! \u00a0It was cold and snowing when we left Kennedy airport and we were happy to be going to a warmer place. We booked our stay at the Fairmont Princess and were happy to discover all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states","category-western-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13401,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}