March 2nd: Visit to Flagstaff

February 22nd, Pat (Linda's brother), his wife Becky and I went to Flagstaff to visit Tom. We fly into Phoenix and then drive to Flagstaff. We arrived in the morning, picked up the rental car and headed north looking for breakfast. I found a place nearby that had good reviews. When we arrived at the strip mall where it was located we noticed a Mediterranean Market. We entered the restaurant which was small and quite sparse. The lady in charge said, "Sit, Sit." So we sat. She said, "What do you want?" Pat asked for a menu. She said, "No menus, what do you want?" We said "Breakfast". We learned there were no eggs, no pancakes, etc. Three options. Beef Pita, chicken quesadillas, or sausage. We discovered this was a Bosnian restaurant. The lady was very nice with a good sense of humor. We figured we might as well go for it. She recommended the beef pita. We decided to split an order of chicken Quesadillas and an order of sausage thinking that would be plenty.

The food came. It was plentiful and delicious. She also brought an order of the beef pita on the house because she wanted us to try it. The many sausages came in a giant baked bun. The sausage tasted like beef. I asked the lady if it was pork. She said, "NO,NO, No pork here!" We decided she was Muslim! It was a fun and interesting breakfast.

There were some fun t-shirts for sale. We passed on the t-shirts, given we aren't Bosnian!

Pat suggested we go to the Mediterranean Market to see if we could get a leg of lamb. Seemed like a good possibility. Tom loves leg of lamb so Pat generally make it when we visit. He uses his mom's recipe which brings back many happy memories. The market was great. Many middle eastern foods and an extensive meat offering. The leg of lamb looked excellent.

We arrived early enough to Flagstaff to take Tom to his favorite Chinese Restaurant. It is an excellent restaurant. The timing was good. I proposed a toast to Tom because it was the anniversary of Tom giving Linda a kidney. Thanks to Tom we enjoyed Linda's wonderful life for an additional 35 years.

We always try to find a good place to take Tom and get him out of the house. Becky suggested Wupatki National Monument. It was only 45 minutes from Tom's house. We had all been there before but it is a beautiful place to visit. The drive to Wupatki was beautiful. We enjoyed walking around the historic site again. 

Here are some pictures of the park.

 

Here is more info on Wupatki.  Wupatki

We took time for walks, Pat is  recovering well from open heart surgery and exercise is part of his rehab. It's a great place to go for walks. 

The lamb dinner turned out great. Tom's extended family all joined us. 

Becky enjoyed holding Santana's baby girl. She is very cute. 

Sunday morning we took Tom to a great breakfast place. We would head back to Phoenix after breakfast. It was a great visit.