ASU

Grandpa Ainsworth gave our son Duffey an ASU hat when he was born so Grandma Ainsworth wants to give her Great Grandson an ASU hat. Today we drove to ASU for her to purchase this hat just like grandpa did. Although the hat style has changed, she found the one she liked.

While we were in Tempe on the ASU campus and we visited the Gammage Auditorium which is a Frank Lloyd Wright design built in 1959. It was one of FLW last designs and is acoustically as perfect as possible. Sheldon from Big Bang Theory would love this place! The exterior design reminded me of a circus tent.

On the way home we stopped outside Scottsdale in the foothills of McDowell Mountains to explore another FLW design, Taliesin West, built in 1937. Taliesin West is situated so that it is almost invisible until you enter the grounds, but when you are there the views of the valley and the McDowell Mountains is spectacular. Taliesin West was used as a lab for FLW and is now an architectural school. No interior pictures!

After all this we stopped at a restaurant, Zipps Sports Grille. It was a cute place with good food. Unfortunately after we ate it was already 4:00 and the traffic on the 2 hour ride home was bumper to bumper. Since there were 3 people in the car we were fortunate enough to be able to drive in the HOV lane and it moved right along.