{"id":1204,"date":"2012-01-17T23:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2012-02-27T23:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:42:05","slug":"were-off-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/1204","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Off and Running!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"Ritz Carlton 2\" href=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7163\/6699486131_15a1d5279b_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7163\/6699486131_15a1d5279b_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ritz Carlton 2\" width=\"240\" height=\"107\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> We&#8217;re approaching the end of our first week here in Tucson on Sunday &#8211; and having a blast!\u00a0 As my Dad stated, &#8220;I guess we&#8217;re as busy as we want to be&#8221; . Opportunities abound at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rinconcountry.com\/activities\/index.asp\">Rincon<\/a> &#8211; which I call a retirement community on steroids &#8211; for all kinds of physical exercise groups, art and crafts, games and fun events &#8211; not including the work we will be doing with Habitat for Humanity Tucson or exploring the city and surrounding\u00a0 national and state parks.\u00a0 Although we cringe at a boring blog entry of &#8220;what we did today&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; I&#8217;ve done just that to share why we chose to return to Tucson. Caution &#8211; read at your own risk&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;ve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve joined 2 choirs &#8211; one at Southside Presbyterian church (gospel) and one in Rincon (a medley of 100 years of Broadway show tunes to be performed in March)<\/li>\n<li>Had dinner with Rincon friends<\/li>\n<li>Attended one of the many potlucks<\/li>\n<li>Completed a 3 hour ranger hike at Saguaro National Park<\/li>\n<li>Worked a day of HfH construction<\/li>\n<li>Met with HfH staff to learn about development projects in 3 new communities and toured the villages with Terry &amp; Sue Sunday afternoon<\/li>\n<li>Attended a thoughtful reflection of Martin Luther King&#8217;s work at Southside Presbyterian Church on Sunday<\/li>\n<li>Taken &amp; processed photos (Dave)<\/li>\n<li>Painted 3 paintings in Saguargo National Park (of which 2 were flingers and Susi scraped for another day of painting)<\/li>\n<li>Explored the downtown district at Tucson&#8217;s 2nd Saturday event to enjoy 4 bands and people watch.<\/li>\n<li>Susi&#8217;s continued with her early morning walks and occasional swims<\/li>\n<li>Dave has also been processing photos he took of Susi&#8217;s summer paintings to put on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.SusiHavensBezaire.com\">Susi&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Susi&#8217;s also been working on plans for a fall painting competition in Ohio via Skype and starting a new art webinar<\/li>\n<li>And we both checked out a few other special interest groups at Rincon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re approaching the end of our first week here in Tucson on Sunday &#8211; and having a blast!\u00a0 As my Dad stated, &#8220;I guess we&#8217;re as busy as we want to be&#8221; . Opportunities abound at Rincon &#8211; which I call a retirement community on steroids &#8211; for all kinds of physical exercise groups, art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}