Well, it's been an eventful couple of days....sorry that I haven't been able to write my blog for a few days, but first Bonnie doesn't have wifi at the townhouse they are renting, and then yesterday Firefox was updating and causing my computer to freeze up, and after 35 minutes trying to get into the blog I just gave up and turned it off and went home. Today is a new day and the sun is shining and everything will be okay. I'll go back and write about Sunday first.
Sunday, March 6
I rose at 4:15 and showered and got ready for Bill to pick me up and all they went well. Got to the airport and expected to see it empty at that early an hour, but low and behold it was packed....evidently everybody was going for those cheaper early morning flights too! Anyway got to the gate and only had about 5 minutes to wait before they started boarding the plane....got to my seat on the aisle, and no one came to sit next to me, so that was great....got to Phoenix about 15 minutes early....and then it all began to crumble....couldn't pull up to the gate till the plane sitting there moved out.....then the luggage took ages to come down the shute. I was only feet away from the shuttle desk where I had to check in to get my shuttle to The Village of Oak Creek and luckily due to the slow luggage, my shuttle left by 10 a.m. right on schedule and I was off. I happened to be the only one in the van, so the driver changed the route and drove directly to the Village which only took 2 hours and my butt was grateful for that, but Bonnie had been told to pick me up at a local hotel at 1 p.m., and it was barely noon. What to do? What to do? I got out the cell and called her....but wouldn't you know it, she had turned her phone off for church and forgot to turn it back on....I thought that was the problem, but left a message that I had arrived early. There was an art show going on in the next parking lot, so with backpack on my back and suitcase in tow, I walked over and up and down the rows....kind of looking....but now really interested in buying at that point. So I decided to go across the street where I had seen a resturant with an open sign on it and have some breakfast...I figured I better let Bonnie know where I was going to be if for some reason they had heard my first message, so I called her again....still no answer....left another message....and tramped across the highway suitcase still in tow! Had my breakfast (even though it was noon, I hadn't only had peanuts and coffee on the flight, so was ready for food. Still no Bonnie in sight, so I tramped back across the highway and back to the hotel parking lot and with no chairs in sight sat on my suitcase till 1 p.m. when Bonnie and friend Dave arrived to pick me up. They had been just down a couple of blocks having breakfast after church....waiting for me to arrive. The rest of the day went uneventful cept the part where I found out that they didn't have wifi. Took a short walk around the neighborhood and came back and watched Desperate Housewives and got ready for bed.
Monday, March 7
Dooms Day!!! I awoke to grey clouds and a cool breeze, but Bonnie had hiking Bell Rock on her mind, and said wouldn't need a hat, cause no sun to burn our heads. I did however put on my spring jacket and gloves, was wearing long pants and a sweatshirt, and figured it wouldn't be a problem the clouds would pass, as I saw brief moments of blue sky every now and then.
Off we went and the first third of the hike was basically uneventful, but the farther we went the more often drops of rain would hit my head. We got to a great viewing spot with rocks to sit on and take in the view, so we stopped and sat and watched the clouds move quickly across the sky and still seeing a spot where the sun would be shining on the rocks in a distance even though we had clouds overhead. I thought wouldn't that be a nice picture to take, and pulled out my camera only to find the battery was dead. Now this should have been a sign that it wasn't going to go well the rest of the hike, but nooooo!!!....we hiked on up the rocks and eventually were on the other side and the wind started blowing like crazy. By this time, my knees were also getting a little weak....due to the height....and we decided to turn back and go down.....at about the point where we had stopped to take pictures, it started to rain with a few drops of small hail, but we were going down hill, so we just picked up the pace and looked for trees to shelter us...but this however was the dessert, and shrubs and cactus dotted the path.....the hail started getting worse and we finally found a tall shrub that helped very little, but did some diverting of the hail on my head and ears....it eventually covered the grown like a pebble path of white ice, and we even though it hadn't stopped raining, continued down the icey greasy red clay that the path had turned into. It also now had rivers of water and large puddles we had to traverse. Eventually we got to the car, but were completely soaked, cold, and had red clay covered wet shoes. We had to take off our shoes to get into the car and carefully placed them in the back and left them in the garage to dry over night. When we got home we took hot showers, ate hot soup with nice clean dry clothes on.
After all that excitement, I decided to go to the bakery with the wifi in town to work on my blog after we came back from grocery shopping, Bonnie and Dave let me out and went on to do some other errands before coming back to pick me up....wouldn't you know it, the bakery was closed! Closed at 3 p.m. and that was just about the time I got there. So I had to sit out in the cold till they returned from their errand to pick me up.....so on our way back Bonnie and Dave dropped me off at the clubhouse and I went in at about 3:20 p.m. to start my blog. Wrong!!! by 5 p.m. I was still sitting there trying to get my computer to work and totally frustrated at the whole thing. I called and had Bonnie come and get me. Don't exactly know what the problem was...but it froze up and I couldn't get it to do anything.
Had dinner and started watching a movie Bonnie had gotten at the library, but about 15 minutes into it....we turned it off...was too weird and too violent for Bonnie and me. Ended up watching "Family Feud" and a few other TV programs before going to bed.....so now you know why the title of this blog.
Tusday, March 8
The sun is shining brightly and not a cloud in the sky....promise of 60 degrees and all is well. After breakfast and a shower Bonnie and I headed to the Bakery again to do my blog. Had a few problems getting into the internet....but finally here I am. It's going to be a good day! Love and prayers, m
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