Uncle De and Uncle John's Visit

Dennis and John (Uncle De and Uncle John) came to stay with us in July.  Dennis is my mom's cousin and John is his wonderful partner of 39 years now!  (A big shout out to their anniversary yesterday--congratulations!)  We had the privilege and blessing of getting to know them and form such a close bond with them while we were living in Mesa.  They live in Chandler and so we'd get to see them and do things with them often while we lived there.  We've missed them SO MUCH and so it was like Christmas having them come!  While they were here we went to the Washington Pavilion, the Zoo, Texas Road House, Falls Park, and just plain played hard.

Gracie, being the creative little gal that she is, decided it would be fun to throw a parade in our driveway.  So this is her production and her guinea pigs Dennis and Parker.  What good sports they were!  :)  I'm sure this had the neighbors talking!  Gracie and John had a blast playing "Queen Gracie and Evil King John!"  Chase was the "tornado."  What imaginations! 

In this picture this tiger is literally staring at Dennis and did for several minutes!  There were tons of people standing in front of the tiger, but for some reason it "hunted" Dennis down and wouldn't take his eyes off him.  Dennis kept walking up and down the side walk along the tiger's fence to see if it would stop looking at him, but the tiger stared at him and followed him wherever he moved to.  Kinda scary!  I know Dennis was relieved there was a fence between the two of them because that tiger definitely had his sight set on Dennis!