Ignore the date. Sarah used a new camera and the date was messed up. You could not see the date on the view screen.Okay, I am back and ready to blog again. The trip started off great and Wednesday followed suit. We drove to Scottsdale, AZ to tour the Frank Lloyd Wright headquarters held at Taliesin West. The tickets were expensive, but the tour was solid for an hour and a half. It cost Sarah and I $32 each and Emily was $27 with student identification. Jonah, who is five years old, only cost $10. Check out the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation if interested http://www.franklloydwright.org/.
I have to say that for a five year old boy he was the most well behaved child on the face of the Earth. To actually look interested and to remain composed for an hour and half talk/tour about something a kid has no idea or concept of blows my mind. You ROCK JONAH! Emily was great too. She could at least appreciate the unique architecture of this place. She also read a book or two in one of her series that talked about the Robbie House in Chicago. Emily knew that Sarah and I toured that house when we were on our vacation in Chicago two summers ago. She is mildly interested in FLW, and she might be the only one in her grade who has even heard of the famous architect.
I took many cool photos and learned a lot about what he did there. Emily bumped into a sculpture in the garden. It wobbled back and forth. I lunged forward and put it to rest before it could smash to the ground. The sculptures were for sale, but the cheapest one was around $2,000 big ones. After that episode we had a little talk about being careful when visiting museums and other places with expensive items.
Our tour guide who was from Arizona complained about the heat over and over again. Hey, I am the heat complainer and I didn't complain once on the entire trip. Yes, it was 90 degrees there, but with little humidity. I was fine for the entire trip. I was thinking that if you are going to complain in March, you are in for a rude awakening when July gets here.
We all enjoyed our visit and are interested in visiting more buildings designed by FLW.
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I tried four or five times to edit my post, but I had no luck. I have space between my paragraphs, but they are not shown. Sorry!
No sweat...we'll imagine the spaces.
Glad to have you back amongst the bloggin' fold.
I'm glad you restrict your heat complaining to non-family adventures. Father must be stoic in the face of adversity, otherwise he loses credibility.
sounds interesting
interesting house
nice lines
Keeping cool here, but my air conditioner is old and making strange noises. I am looking into getting our replaced. I don't want to end up in Gibbs shoes.
The house rocks! However, it is in need of serious maintenance. FLW is not very energy efficient with his designs. For example, teh Robbie house in Chicago had a billion windows that had zero protection from the cold. In the winter you had to wear winter coats inside with the fire going in the fire place.
Insulation was a pretty foreign concept in Frank's era. Putting on a sweater was the way people kept warm for most of human civilization, up to something just prior to our lifetimes.
Frank was also insane about not compromising on his aesthetic vision even if that meant doing things that didn't stand much chance of holding up over time. There weren't much in the way of sealants then either, and he pushed all sorts of waterproofing boundaries that today would be no big deal to resolve. Probably not a huge problem in AZ.
Many apologies for not chiming in till now. Been a crazy few weeks.
Thanks for the recap of this tour. I know you've been a FLW bobo for some years, so good to see that you had the chance to go on this tour. But Lord, Almighty! Those are some expensive tickets!
LOVE the story about almost knocking over the statue. Try as you might to have an Iowa Public Television vacation, you've got a Rodney Dangerfield movie lurking behind every corner, just waiting to reveal itself.
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