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[asterroc]

Arizona trip is awesome so far. Been spending lots of time outside in weather in the 80's. The one thing that wasn't awesome was yesterday I got stung by a bee in the face and totally freaked out. See, when I was a child, not only was I allergic to bee stings, but if the stinger stayed in I was *severely* allergic - as in throat swelling closed and not breathing. And now I have asthma and didn't back then. So yeah, I understandably freaked out a bit. I managed to shriek something to the effect of "take the stinger out!" which blue_102 successfully did, and although my face hurt like the dickens and swelled up a bit, I didn't have much of an allergic reaction and no asthma whatsoever. So the upshot of it is that I apparently don't need to freak out about bee stings anymore.

Weather's been awesome. We've been doing things outside every day, and between the sun and heat it's been tiring me out a LOT. But it's awesome. I've been taking around 180 photos a day, I need to learn better how to weed out the best so that I don't swamp people with the others. I will be posting them when I get back, don't want to hog bandwidth as a guest. Today the Desert Botanical Gardens had some weird glass art installation that looked like Cthulu was rising from the sands, or swooping down on it or something. Very freakish.

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[oh-chris.livejournal.com]

if you're in phoenix (which i'm guessing, by the desert botanical gardens), i'd like to recommend The Chuckbox, on University Drive in Tempe (essentially on ASU campus), and Joe's Real Barbecue in Gilbert.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

We were told a lot about the Chuckbox and drove past it too. It looks scary, but I'll see if we can get over to it. We ate at Joe's Farm Stand (or some similar name) in Gilbert, which I'm told is related to Joe's Real BBQ. It was awesome.

[oh-chris.livejournal.com]

i ate at the chuckbox about once or twice a semester in college; it's delicious, but i couldn't afford it that often!
i really miss joe's real bbq. i haven't had anything as good since i left, and sometimes i consider making a trip out west just to go there...

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the pictures! I'm too lazy to take any even though I live here... ;) .