Back from the Greater Scottsdale area today.
Not a WHOLE lot to report - It was a good trip overall, pretty low-key.
Friday: Took me like 40 minutes to go a half mile from Fairfax to La Cienega (Dontcha just LOVE L.A. traffic?) I was going to park at some place I made a reservation at, but that place turned out to be some warehouse in a weird area so I parked at one I knew, but then when I got to the security checkpoint I realized I had forgotten my CELL PHONE. I felt so naked, and alone... Anyway, I'm, waiting for my delayed flight and one of the police dogs comes up to me and starts sniffing me, lingers there for a good 30 seconds. And he's like - rubbing up against me sniffing my legs and my laptop case. Meanwhile the guy handling him and the guy with the friggin' M-16 strapped to his shoulder are eyeing me. Well I guess they figured out that he was just smelling my dogs because they called the dog and went on. Very interesting, but not fun. My flight was also delayed over an hour - also not fun. The rest of Friday was fine though - arrived no problem, went to dinner with Cousin Pete, went to bed.
Saturday: Was supposed to meet that photographer guy for lunch, and at the last minute we got 50 yard line seats for the ASU/Stanford football game (like 10 minutes before game time). So I cancelled lunch with the Photographer and went to the game, which was fun. Never did re-connect with the Photographer guy - hope he wasn't too pissed. ANyway, later that night had dinner with my OTHER cousin Jenny (Pete's Sister) and my ex-Aunt Brenda (divorced from my Mom's Brother) who I haven't seen in probably... at least 10 years (she's kind of a bee-atch). That was... interesting. After that we went into old town Scottsdale and had some wine at this AWESOME wine bar - really cool place.
Sunday = FOOTBALL. My Cousin Pete is a HUGE Philadelphia Eagles fan, football fan in general. So we watched the game in HDTV on his ridiculously big 60" Sony TV, which was quite the experience I must say. HDTV really is incredible. Anyway, the Eagles lost on a 62 yard field goal as time expired - so needless to say Cousin Pete was not too happy with that. After that, went to a sports bar to watch the AZ Cardinals get beat by the Raiders. We went back & played some video games, and then to the airport for my trip back.
So - nothing too eventful - couple of fun things but pretty low key. The puppies were glad to see me of course - were already wagging tails & barking before they actually even saw me - I guess they heard me pull up.
Good to be home...
Not a WHOLE lot to report - It was a good trip overall, pretty low-key.
Friday: Took me like 40 minutes to go a half mile from Fairfax to La Cienega (Dontcha just LOVE L.A. traffic?) I was going to park at some place I made a reservation at, but that place turned out to be some warehouse in a weird area so I parked at one I knew, but then when I got to the security checkpoint I realized I had forgotten my CELL PHONE. I felt so naked, and alone... Anyway, I'm, waiting for my delayed flight and one of the police dogs comes up to me and starts sniffing me, lingers there for a good 30 seconds. And he's like - rubbing up against me sniffing my legs and my laptop case. Meanwhile the guy handling him and the guy with the friggin' M-16 strapped to his shoulder are eyeing me. Well I guess they figured out that he was just smelling my dogs because they called the dog and went on. Very interesting, but not fun. My flight was also delayed over an hour - also not fun. The rest of Friday was fine though - arrived no problem, went to dinner with Cousin Pete, went to bed.
Saturday: Was supposed to meet that photographer guy for lunch, and at the last minute we got 50 yard line seats for the ASU/Stanford football game (like 10 minutes before game time). So I cancelled lunch with the Photographer and went to the game, which was fun. Never did re-connect with the Photographer guy - hope he wasn't too pissed. ANyway, later that night had dinner with my OTHER cousin Jenny (Pete's Sister) and my ex-Aunt Brenda (divorced from my Mom's Brother) who I haven't seen in probably... at least 10 years (she's kind of a bee-atch). That was... interesting. After that we went into old town Scottsdale and had some wine at this AWESOME wine bar - really cool place.
Sunday = FOOTBALL. My Cousin Pete is a HUGE Philadelphia Eagles fan, football fan in general. So we watched the game in HDTV on his ridiculously big 60" Sony TV, which was quite the experience I must say. HDTV really is incredible. Anyway, the Eagles lost on a 62 yard field goal as time expired - so needless to say Cousin Pete was not too happy with that. After that, went to a sports bar to watch the AZ Cardinals get beat by the Raiders. We went back & played some video games, and then to the airport for my trip back.
So - nothing too eventful - couple of fun things but pretty low key. The puppies were glad to see me of course - were already wagging tails & barking before they actually even saw me - I guess they heard me pull up.
Good to be home...
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canuhandlethis:
Glad you had a nice trip and thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, thank you, ThAnK yOu.. etc.... for your compliment 
gingerkiss:
wow that was some thank you. 
hope you had a wicked fun weekend!
hope you had a wicked fun weekend!