Now that a lot of the snowbirds are migrating north our numbers are dwindling.  There were only 4 of us, Wally, Wendy, Bryan and Carol who decided to head downtown to the 4th Avenue shopping area to check it out.  It is about 5 blocks long and there are small shops and restaurants lining both sides of the avenue.  The avenue hosts unique garbage containers (made from spare bicycle parts) and one of the original trolley cars in Tucson.  It didn’t take us too long to wander up and down both sides of the avenue, checking out the shops before we were hungry.  We stopped and had a light lunch at one of the small restaurants nearby, and decided afterwards to head towards the barrio to see the colorful housing that we had heard about.  We drove up and down the streets in the barrio looking at houses painted pink, blue, lavender, green, yellow, peach, orange, and more with the trims even more colorful than the actual houses,  taking care not to go too deep into the wrong area, which was wise on our part.  The drive then took a different direction out of the city and we headed up to check out Starr Pass resort and golf course a couple of miles out of the city and were rewarded with some beautiful views of Tucson and the golf course.  As we headed back toward town, we turned up “A” Mountain (called that because of the huge University of Arizona “A” on the top side of the mountain facing Tucson) and found a group of people flying remote gliders near the top.  We watched the gliders for a while and talked to some of the pilots who have been doing this for quite a while.  Some of the gliders had over $2,000.00 in electronics in them not including the remote control, it can be an expensive hobby especially if your glider hits the side of a mountain which does happen.  The day was spontaneous except for our planned tour of 4th Avenue and we ended up having supper at El Corral to see if they did have the best bar-b-cue ribs in town, not quite, we still like the Texas Roadhouse better but they came close.