Rain, Rain, Go Away

All eyes will be on Phoenix Arizona this weekend for the Super Bowl. The last Super Bowl in this area was back in 1996 in Tempe so it's really a big deal around here, almost all you hear about.

We Phoenicians endure our scorching hot summers so we can rub it in to our friends and relatives over the winter about how gorgeous it is here when they are miserable. I know that sounds bad but that's just how it is. Since so much attention will be made about us you'd think that, given the fact that we have well over 300 days of sunshine a year, odds are we'd have great weather. Not a chance. The forecast for Super Bowl Sunday is rain and colder than normal temperatures. It figures. I so feel bad for all the people who are coming out here for the big game and making a vacation out of it because it's been rainy off and on the past few days. Not what our vacationers were hoping for I'm sure.

The FBR Open (formerly known as the Phoenix Open) golf tournament is this weekend too. Whoever scheduled the Super Bowl should have known how that works around here. You see, nearly every year it seems to rain for the golf tournament. Not necessarily the whole 4 days but it almost always rains for at least part of it, except for last year. We were pleasantly surprised with great golf weather given the history. We got free tickets this year and will try for Saturday as that's supposed to be pretty clear. When you live here you never really have to give rain a second thought because most of the year we don't have any and you get used to it being that way. It's kind of funny because when it's a rainy day there are news interruptions on T.V. just like if there was a blizzard somewhere else. Kind of funny the way the natives react to rain. To them it's a huge news story.