Spring Break

  Thursday started March Madness so the plan was to watch March Madness!! That evening we planned on meeting Shawn, Bri, and Lina in Tempe to watch the ASU game. Megan and I would return the truck too. We went down and hit some Tempe spots beforehand. Started at Cartel Coffee and hipster, coffee shop that now brews their own beers. A pretty cool spot! Megan and I split a taster tray of their 4 beers. Really liked their Coffee Brown and their other beers were good too. Of course, had coffee too.
  Next we went to the newer Four Peaks. Really large, production facility with a very nice modern tasting room. Cool place. Yucca Tap Room was next and we always love this dive bar, with amazing beer!! Always seems to be sort of a rough crowd, in a rougher area. But we've never had problems, in fact get along with the people! They had Bell's  Hopslam bottles and Ballast Victory At Sea on tap! We could have stayed here all night, but would have ended up bad. Next we met everyone at Four Peaks on Eighth St. Another favorite of ours and fun once again. Some good basketball games on the good number of TV's!

  Friday, we relaxed ran and watched more March Madness! We kept Friday short, so that we could relax on our last day, get some rest for another early flight and at this point we were tired. Had late lunch with Aunt and Cousin at In N Out. Then we used my Aunt's awesome truck to visit our favorite, AZ Wilderness one more time (3 x's in 4 days!!) and stopped at Whole Foods in Chandler. This place is a few miles from my Aunt's and we love it! If I lived here, I would be here often. They have like 30 taps of great beer and you can fill growlers of most of them. I had a few Ballast Sculpin, one of my favorite IPAs! Didn't want to leave here, but had no choice. So overall, fantastic trip we were able to do a little bit of everything: eat, sleep, run, beer, baseball, sun, family and friends!