Senior Excursion Day at Sky Harbor Airport Phoenix AZ

 

Once we step through these doors our adventure will begin.

Phoenix Airport Museum Information

"Worn as Art" reversible capes



The foursome of Sally, Bob, Sharon and Marc did two day excursions January 28th 2017 and I (Sally) have decided to highlight the second of the two for the day.  The four of us can get a lot of fun, laughs, insight into new and interesting forms of art and we are entertainers to boot. So tighten your seat belts and hang on, for our fun two hours at Sky Harbor Airport (PHX) in Phoenix, AZ.  After a superb salad bar lunch at a nearby Ruby Tuesday, we headed over to the cell phone lot at PHX, first confusion moment when we read the sign you, have to stay in your vehicle, we didn't have a mannequin with us, so we headed out to another lot next door. Oops, second confusion moment, Employee Parking Only, Bob does a U Turn and the guard waves at us.  We decided it probably would NOT be a wise idea to wave back, so Bob stopped.  After explaining that we wanted to ride the Sky Train and see the art exhibits throughout the airport concourses, he told us there were actually a few parking meters in the cell phone lot.  Back again to the cell phone lot and  BINGO we found the six parking meters and claimed one and our credit card coughed up credits for two hours of parking.  We skipped across the street and headed up the escalators to the Sky Train.  FYI, the restroom at PHX are the absolute best airport restrooms I have ever seen. 

 

We hopped the Sky Train to Terminal 3 for three exhibits, the first being the beautiful station platform design "Haak u/Acome Connection" continuing to a photography exhibit "Desert in the Details" and continuing to "Worn as Art" a reversible capes exhibit.  We then proceeded to Terminal 2.  This was done by way of an elevator ride down to the tarmac level and walking a fair distance outdoors through a double enclosed gated walkway.

 "The Phoenix"



 



Yes, the weather was great in the sixties.  Now Terminal 2 is old, we entered by way of the baggage claim and it was stuffy, humid and crowded, it appeared several flights had recently arrived.  We made our way into the terminal to view "The Phoenix" a mixed media mural, painting of "Superstition Rodeo" and "Interwoven" beautiful woven pieces of Native American weaving.                                



""Interwoven"

We hopped the Sky Train back to Terminal 4 to visit four more exhibits including "Arizona Weather" from dust storms to snowstorms, "Relief in the Desert" fine arts prints from Santo Press, "Find Your Park in ARIZONA "celebrating 100 yeats of National Park Service and "About Face" artwork from the the Airport Collection.  We did not go to the Rental Car Center where there another three exhibits. 

 

We arrived at the Sky Train platform just as a train was leaving to return to the cell phone lot, so Sharon and I took a seat on one of the benches by the train door while Bob and Marc stood at attention.  We were just a tad bit worn out but unlike youngsters that have a tendency to get cranky, Sharon and I have sort of break out in crazy.  Standing about ten feet away was a young lady in her late twenties to mid thirties working her smart phone as was a young man, probably in same age range, nearby also.  Have no idea what set me off in hysterical laughter and up pipes Sharon "no worries, she's harmless and out with us on a day pass" and it spiraled from there no stop.  By this time the young lady was trying hard to not laugh, but having a hard time not showing it and the young man caved in right behind her in his smiling and laughing.  And up I pipe "you might never know what your Grand parents are up to but I hope they are having a fun time; we did our good behavior and now it's play time".  The train came, folks boarded, the train departed for Terminal 4 where the cell phone lot and our vehicle was waiting, we are coming to the end of our Senior Excursion Day and I do a pole dance.  A lot of faces broke into smiles.

Never too old for a pole dance!