The Day with Grandpa

My Dad came to visit us yesterday and today while he was on a trip to Tuscon. Last night we went to dinner at Takamatsu Korean BBQ and Sushi. My Dad served his mission in South Korea; we let him choose the dishes. We had some really yummy bul goki, tong su yuk, and chop chey.My favorite was the tong su yuk, which was kind of a sweet and sour beef with apples and cucumber and some kind of mushroom among other veggies. Then the bul goki, then the chop chey; but they were all pretty tasty.

Josi chose to have a california roll, which was also yummy. She insisted on using her chopsticks.


Today we drove up South Mountain to Dobbins Lookout. We climbed around the look-out a little, but there were a lot of other people there. And there weren't any Saguaros around so we found a trail to hike down to find some. Josi had to pause along the way for a photo-op and Hyrum joined her, but was more interested in everything around him, than smiling for the camera.

Hyrum was fearless and wanted to walk by himself like Josi was, but he had to hold someone's hand if I put him down and he chose Grandpa's. He probably thought that he would be able to sweet talk Grandpa into letting him go, but Grandpa is an old pro.


We found a flatish rock to sit on that overlooked a little gorge. We sat there for maybe 20 or 30 minutes and just watched the wild life. We saw lots of little lizards, and a few chipmunks. We saw one lizard that was probably close to a foot long from it's nose to the end of it's tail.(I think it is called a chuckwalla from some pictures on the internet)

We also saw a few birds, some butterflies and I caught a quick view of a little cotton-tail.
I tried to take a picture of one bird that had a pretty blue throat, but it blends into the mountain too much, so this is really just a picture of the view of downtown Phoenix from where we were sitting.