Arizona - Day 1

Day 1 was fantastic.

Morning:

• Got up
• Ate breakfast
• Got ready - and put SANDALS on because it was 84 today.  HA!!

Afternoon:

• Went out for a day of shopping - liquor store, Safeway, and a quick trip to Barnes & Noble to pick up my book club book
• We had lunch at Fate Brewing - awesome pizza!!  The beers were good - nothing stood out as amazing, but solid sampler.

Evening:

• Came back to the house, hung out, read my book, Chris had a beer and then went out to golf a few holes with Dave (splendid performance after a three year golf hiatus)
• Made pasta with a meat sauce of Patty's own making - lots of onion, carrots, red and yellow pepper with ground bison...um...who says I can't cook??
• WINE:  had a spectacular bottle of Sineann 2007 Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley (sidebar...we have never visited there, but NEWSFLASH, they will be on the docket for our next trip.)
• DINNER:  it was awesome!!  Salad and pasta - and now Oreo cookies for dessert.

Might I say the best part of the evening was that USED CARS was on in the background.  This was one of my dad's favorite movies, and one that we need to watch with Dave.  Highlights that never stop giving:

• "When my boss sees these figures, he's gonna have a stroke..."
• "Is this a 1974 Mercedes 450SL for twenty-four thousand dollars?  That's too fucking high."
• "We are blowing the living shit out of high prices."
• "Toby wants you to buy it."
• "Trust me..."

If you have not seen this movie, rent it.  Now.  Don't wait, just do it.  It's awful, has gratuitous nudity, but Kurt Russel is at his 1980s finest. And the cast boasts Lenny and Squiggy from "Laverne and Shirley" as well as Grandpa from "The Munsters."  That's Academy Award material people.

Relaxing now after a bottle of wine and Oreo cookies.  What will tomorrow bring?

Pasta time...

Cocktail time...

So nice....

Fate Brewing

Having a yummy sampler at Fate Brewing in Scottsdale!  Pizza is on the way.

Flight

No, the plane didn't fly upside down like in that Denzel Washington movie.  But for those of you that wonder why I have a phobia about flying, below are things that happen when I fly.  Now, the things below aren't going to kill me (well, maybe the first one), but really?  Who else does this happen to?

1. As they were doing the pre-flight check, and the video was playing, suddenly, the lights and video all shut off as did the blowers.  Now, when the flight attendants look nervous, that is when I get tense.  And they looked nervous.  After a few minutes it all came back up, and the worst part about it was that we had to watch the video again.
2. When the woman who was in the window seat sat down, she seemed quite pleasant.  Until she looked  over as we were preparing to take off and said, "Do you have an air sick bag?  I'm not feeling well."  GREAT!  So I gave her mine and Chris's, and being the Girl Scout that I am, flagged down a flight attendance and got a bigger plastic bag and two little bottles of water.  At one point after take off, I said to Chris, "Now I think she is crying!  Either that or dry heaving."  Then after we landed, she apologized and started crying again and told me that her husband of 34 years had just left her and she had too much to drink.  I felt so bad for her!  I patted her on the back and told her to take care of herself.

So electrical failure and being hurled on were not to be.  AND...our flight got in an hour early.  WTF??

Today it is 66 degrees and sunny with a warm breeze.  Chris and I are heading out to the liquor store and grocery store for my mom.   Pictures and beer talk later.

Arizona Bound...

Leaving in 4 hours for eight days of fun in AZ!!  Can't wait...need the vacation.  Right now we are prepping by jettisoning extra clothes from our enormous suit cases.  We need packing help.

The blog might not be so interesting this time...we're in for a lot of hanging out, food, drinking, day trips around Arizona...wait, that is kind of what we always do.

Hopefully something interesting will happen.