Friday Jordan and I went to Brad's house for a Thai BBQ with him and Lindsey. Jordan and Brad barbecued chicken marinated in chilies, while Lindsey and I went to the grocery store to pick out some mangoes for the dessert. Neither Lindsey or I have ever bought a mango so we spent some time with the produce guy learning about how to pick out a ripe mango. We learned that mangoes ripen from the outside in so you want to find one that is soft all the way through.
Dinner was so good. We had BBQ chicken with sticky rice which we ate using our hands, Thai style and then had mango sticky rice for dessert which was delicious thanks to the perfect mangoes we picked out.
After dinner we didn't have any plans so we decided to go to the Phoenix museum to check out first Friday, which is a free event where local artists open their galleries and studios to the public. We loved walking through the Heard museum. Jordan and I cant wait to go back and spend more time looking at all the photography and art. It was incredible, the museum is gigantic and it would take you all day to look at everything. They had some beautiful pieces and some rather interesting ideas on art expression.
After spending some time in the museum we walked to the street fair where local artists were selling their art. It was loud, very hot and seemed to have more people screaming on microphones about how the world was going to end then trying to sell anything. Needless to say we didn't spend a lot of time there. We walked through and only stopped at one booth before heading home.
We all said that we would probably skip that the next time we came and just spend our time in the museum. It costs $15.00 a person on a normal day to go to the Heard museum so I love finding events like this that allow us to spend time with our friends doing something that we normally wouldn't think to spend money on and then discovering how much we enjoy it.
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