update: It appears the weather will colaborate this time around. We’ll take the partly-cloudy forecast over anything else.

Arizona is thought to be one of the dryest and hotest states in the southwestern United States, yet it seems like whenever we are getting ready to host friends or family, a series of storms decide to come through town.

We moved to Scottsdale in December of 2002, around this time last year we thought we were ready to receive friends and family to come visit. By ready, I mean that we only had to make 1 u-turn regardless of where we were going. So, Sarah’s sister came to spend a few days with us. The weather turned horrible just the day before she was supposed to arrive. A few weeks later, Sarah’s mom and younger sister came to visit just to experience the rainy and cold Arizona desert.

We were sure this had been a fluke, part of a “weird” winter year and not to be repeated again. Certainly this is not rainy season considering how much attention is given to the “monsoon” season during the summer, so we were ready to host people once again. Melanie is coming to town on wednesday and right now it does not look too promising. It started raining today and it sounds like we’ll have clouds and rain for the rest of the week. I am starting to believe that local news stations need to update their monsoon season calendars.

The only good thing is that at least it is much much warmer here than in Amarillo, Texas where she is coming from.