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December 2011, Apache Junction, AZ

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We had a cold spell the first week in December when temperatures were only in the 50’s during the day and got down to mid 30’s at night.   We were soon back into the low 70’s and enjoying the sunshine.     We have learned a new game called Pegs and Jokers which is similar to Sorry.   We have enjoyed playing with our neighbors Russ and Betty.   Russ and Rex are going to build us a game board. We are keeping busy with hiking, Tai Chi and exercise classes and we took several bus trips offered by our park.   We went to see the ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo.   They have over 600 displays of animals, flowers, stars, etc using over 3.5 million individual lights.   Zoolights is one of the largest light shows in the Southwest and we really enjoyed walking around viewing the beautiful lights. The lights on one path were all synchronized to music – what a great show!   Another bus trip was to the Mormon Temple in Mesa to view their Christmas light display.   The lights were beautiful and insi