Day 8: Dance Dance Dance

November 13th, 2005

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Our last day of the stay is so full: by the time we arrive at the gate for our 5:50pm flight, we barely had any time to eat our take-out dinner.

Our first stop of the day is old town Scottsdale. It really shows the West of westerns. Scottsdale is a town in greater Phoenix region. The old town district has all the buildings decorated with old western style, it really reminded me of all these western movies. You can expect to see all kinds of stores from souvenir shops to restaurant (there is one store having Italian ice cream– Gelato, Chuck might be allured).

The highlight of the day is Pow Wow where we enjoyed watching natives dancing. Pow Wow is an annual community event for Indians to see friends, this year’s Pow Wow is hosted by Arizona State University on Veteran’s day (11/12). Natives from all parts of Arizona gathered to dance in their traditional costume; it is a perfect opportunity to photograph the lifestyle and social activities of Indians. During the event, you can see how they hold memorial to the people passed away in the past year and how they celebrate the newborn babies. We even saw Lilo duplicates - Hawaii dance performers. The even is a whole day event, we had to leave at around 4pm because we have to catch the flight.

The feeling seeing home sweet home after four hours of flight is still the best one can have! (Thanks to Irene to pick us from the airport).

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