You HEARD it here first.

AAA and our friend Edward both said not to miss the Heart Museum.  They were so right.  We also went to the Phoenix Art Museum.  We had a fantastic day!  We spent 10-5 in the two museums.  Also the tepary bean hummus veggie wrap was absolutely phenomenal.  We spent a slow, relaxing evening in the hotel after 6.  We actually brought two frozen dinner and a bag of frozen string beans back to microwave for dinner.  Nice.

Today we are driving over to check out the state capitol building and a statue right opposite it.  Then we are driving to Tucson, about an hour fifty minutes away, to visit the Arizona State Museum and/or the Arizona Historical Society.  It will just depend on how much time we spend in either one since it's Shabbat tonight.  We want to eat dinner early enough to be settled into our motel for the evening before dark.

I ate only 1350 calories yesterday and strolled around museums for six hours, mostly on my feet the whole time.  I think that has to be okay.  Today I'm eating my normal breakfast in the room (185 calories), Subway lunch, and a dinner in the restaurant that is part of the hotel tonight.  Hopefully I will control that dinner as well as I have been doing lately.  Tomorrow we are relaxing and probably swimming!  I'm looking forward to swimming.

Here are some pictures from the Phoenix Art Museum and the Heard.

Mark's favorite piece was this bronze statue of Western comic books.

The Phoenix Art Museum has a very large collection of Western art, both older pieces and contemporary.

We liked this one of El Capitan and Bridalveil Falls since we had just been there.

This is by Philip Curtis, the founder of this museum.

I loved driving by the windmill farms, so I was excited to see this piece.

This is just half a mile down the same street from the other museum.

Lunch was the first thing we did there.

It is 14 galleries of Native American art and artifacts.  Hundreds of Hopi Kotsina dolls!

This was a limited time special exhibit. We learned so much because we really knew nothing about this.

Navajo and other tribal textiles

And yes, this was the temperature when we came out of the museum at 5 p.m.