Tonight me and Emmy are in Phoenix. We arrived yesterday about 10:30 or so, after leaving work at the canyon. We checked into our hotel and immediately booted up the computers to access the world wide web. :) We decided that neither of us could spend any long amount of time in the sticks. We miss civilization entirely too much. So we arrived and began checking our email. I had 12 new messages. :)
This morning, after sleeping late, off we went to the Fiesta Mall, where I window-shopped. We came back to the hotel and went swimming! Ahh... water! The temperature topped out at 110 today in Phoenix. Emmy added a new Nextel phone to her collection.
After swimming, and watching some TV (who knew that fuel prices had risen so much?), we got dressed and left for the Grapevine, a karaoke bar/restaurant. YAY! Emmy sang about a half dozen songs, including "Crazy" (Patsy Cline), "Pour Me" (Trick Pony), and "You Light Up My Life" (LeAnn Rhimes). Together we sang "Mama He's Crazy" (The Judds), "Sin Wagon" (Dixie Chicks), "Does He Love You" (Reba McIntire & Linda Davis) and "Somedays You Gotta Dance" (Dixie Chicks). I sang "You Were Mine" (Dixie Chicks) all by myself. I think everyone was impressed with how we sang... and everyone in there was so good.
We just got back to the hotel room and tomorrow we're going to the Arizona State University library, then up to Sedona and finally back to the canyon.
I get to go home though... over the 4th and I'm so excited. I get to go home for about 4 days and I absolutely cannot wait. Emmy's birthday is the 25th of July and then after that Robert is coming out to visit. And then it's home for good. :)
Goodnight all -- condolences to Bradley, who lost a member of his family today. Love you Bradley!
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Friday, June 24, 2005
Excuse me, can I use this Canadian coin here?
Did I bebop into Canada and not know it? A customer today tried to pay with a Canadian coin. When I told her that we couldn't take it, she looked at me, in all seriousness and said "oh, that won't work here?" Umm.. No! Did you cross the country border and not realize it? And no, for your information, what you're looking at over there, across the wide hole IS NOT CANADA! And, just for the record, "Alabama is where I'm from, NOT my last name". All questions I've gotten in the past two days at work.
Mike's wedding was this past weekend. I actually missed the humidity. Seriously. I walked out of the airport in New Orleans and literally felt my skin begin to stick and knew, knew I was back in the South. Ah, how I've missed it. :)
The wedding, by the way, was beautiful, of course. I didn't expect anything less. I actually danced! Can you believe it? Mike almost made me cry when I said bye to him and he told me that it meant the world to him that I was there. When I think about him, I'm grateful that I spent that time at Pi Kapp and it makes the guys who are jerks there worth it.
G'nite everyone. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite. :)
Mike's wedding was this past weekend. I actually missed the humidity. Seriously. I walked out of the airport in New Orleans and literally felt my skin begin to stick and knew, knew I was back in the South. Ah, how I've missed it. :)
The wedding, by the way, was beautiful, of course. I didn't expect anything less. I actually danced! Can you believe it? Mike almost made me cry when I said bye to him and he told me that it meant the world to him that I was there. When I think about him, I'm grateful that I spent that time at Pi Kapp and it makes the guys who are jerks there worth it.
G'nite everyone. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite. :)
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Phoenix, Arizona... NOT Phenix City!!
Emilie's uncle died, so we headed down to Phoenix after work this afternoon so she can catch a flight out to Iowa at 6am in the morning. We're in the hotel room now, after driving most of the afternoon. We stopped in Sedona, for dinner, right before the storm hit. I've got to go back. It's only about an 1 1/2 - 2 hr. drive from the Grand Canyon and it was just beautiful. Made me glad that I have my camera. Of course I didn't take any pictures, cause I was driving. But I still had it.
It's a nice little day-trip. Would be cool to come back. At least I can say that I ventured past Flagstaff, Arizona into the middle of the state. Like I said, we're holed up in the hotel room right now cause 3am comes REALLY early!!!
Work's been good -- been workin alot of shifts lately. Payin my dues so that they'll let me off for Mike's wedding, which they did. Except I've got to switch shifts with someone so I can catch my flight out at 11am on Friday morning. It was the only flight that I could get. Mike's wedding is a saturday wedding Mass -- I've never been to a Catholic Mass before, much less a wedding mass... and then on Sunday Emilie and I have our ACMNP retreat to Lake Powell in Utah.
Anyway, nothing very exciting to report here. Headed back up to the Grand Canyon tomorrow morning, so I can get back for work at 12pm. I'm going to be so dead on my feet tomorrow.... :)
It's a nice little day-trip. Would be cool to come back. At least I can say that I ventured past Flagstaff, Arizona into the middle of the state. Like I said, we're holed up in the hotel room right now cause 3am comes REALLY early!!!
Work's been good -- been workin alot of shifts lately. Payin my dues so that they'll let me off for Mike's wedding, which they did. Except I've got to switch shifts with someone so I can catch my flight out at 11am on Friday morning. It was the only flight that I could get. Mike's wedding is a saturday wedding Mass -- I've never been to a Catholic Mass before, much less a wedding mass... and then on Sunday Emilie and I have our ACMNP retreat to Lake Powell in Utah.
Anyway, nothing very exciting to report here. Headed back up to the Grand Canyon tomorrow morning, so I can get back for work at 12pm. I'm going to be so dead on my feet tomorrow.... :)
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