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| - Sherman, set the Wayback machine for 1961, we are going to the Hotel Valley Ho, in a little patch of desert called "Scottsdale, Arizona".
It was my birthday this week and my kids were in town to make sure that I continue to get older:)
I did get older, but not by much...and certainly no wiser:)
We stayed at the Valley Ho, so I could celebrate in style (and keep the condo neat and tidy:)
It wasn't so much a "staycation", as it was a chance to live a little differently for few days. You don't turn 40 for the first time very often and this seemed like a memorable way to mark the date:)
When we checked in at the Valley Ho, the Chairman (Frank Sinatra) was styling his way through "Luck be a Lady" and we thought we had stepped back to a simpler time...a time in which celebrity was worshiped and fawned over, just because they are famous...a time when you could lounge by the pool and day-drink your cares away...a time when just getting yourself to the bar was enough work for one day:)
In short, we stepped squarely into 2009:)
The Valley Ho delivers on the promise of nostalgia for an unremembered past...a mid-century revival of the avocado green, pastel turquoise and rust orange memories that almost none of us share, but that we all long for.
The Valley Ho takes you to the Disney version of 1961 and damn it, I liked it...a lot!
I found myself thoroughly enjoying the suite (the room and the hotel look like the '60's, but with HDTV, iPod plugs, decent tubs, good cell phone reception, double headed showers and really comfortable beds:)
I found myself wishing for the return of fins on my car and car hops on roller skates, along with $.25 a gallon gas and $.25 a gallon Tequila (almost interchangeable for both drinking and fueling purposes:)
Room service, spa, workout facility, restaurant and the pool are all first rate, and the people watching is wonderful...this place has become a destination again!
The pool is a terrific place to give people watching a real workout:) The Oh Bar pours a nice drink and they keep 'em comin!
Lots of eye candy for the guys and girls to ogle and everybody mixing and mingling like there is no tomorrow...and maybe that's true!
Maybe there is no tomorrow at the Valley Ho...When you step through the time warp back to 1961, but get to bring your 2009 stuff with you...the price you pay is getting stuck in the vortex of "now"...but at the Valley Ho, "now" seems to work:)
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