Let's see, last Wednesday, 29th of July, we drove down to Garden Grove, Calif. to stay with my brother, Mike, and family. Marisa, Shawn, and Inara had flown in from Colorado the week before for a 12 day visit. We arrived early afternoon and had a great visit with everyone. Kim and Madison showed up on Thursday and at 1st Madison and Inara had their little differences but it didn't last long. I've posted pictures of our 3 days with family. Always a house full at Mike and Trini's, Rob, Kelli and Alex even flew down from Washington, it was really great seeing everyone again.
Kim left Friday morning because she had to work that night. Dave and I left a little after 12pm and headed for Joyce's funeral. (Dave's ex wife) The service had a pretty good crowd, Laura, David Jr.s, ex wife, officiated the service. After that Dave and I headed back to Simi Valley but made a little house hunting trip 1st before we left Long Beach. We went hunting for the very 1st house we bought together, 30 years ago. Don't know how he did it but Dave ended up remembering the street address and name, amazing. Boy, the neighborhood didn't look that great and the house was very small and needed paint badly. Once in Simi we went to David Jr.s house and waited for them to get back. That night we did Costco pizza and visited with David, Jodi, Riley, Jeff, Carolyn (Jeff's girlfriend), Bryauna, and Jayden.
We left Saturday morning and headed back to Cornville, Arizona. After an 1 hr on the road we realized we had left our computers at David's. So we turned around and headed back, Dave called David and we met 1/2 way to get the computers. THANK YOU SO MUCH David for jumping in your car and bringing the computers, your Dad owes you big time.
Yesterday, Bryauna and Riley flew into Phoenix to visit us for the next 6 days. We left the airport and took them to a Waffle House, neither had been to one before. They are just about on every corner and just cute little restaurants. Then to Costco for gas and to return a mixer. Next stop was Sedona so they could see the Red Rocks and we stopped at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, which is a church built into the side of the red rocks, just pretty neat to see. We then drove into Sedona and walked around the shops, stopped for ice cream and soda, very hot out 102 I believe. They wanted to go to our house after that. They both really liked the house and we hung around a little bit then on to the pool. We stayed for a couple hours then back to the house to fix dinner and at 7ish we did the phone and camera thing with Danny, Kim and Madison. The girls thought that was great, talking and seeing Madison at the same time and Madison seeing us. Around 8 it was back to the pool until 9:30pm then back home again. When I went to bed at 11 the girls were sound asleep.
Today we are headed for the Grand Canyon, another long driving day, but the last long driving day until Monday when we head back to Simi Valley.
P.S. Happy belated Anniversay to Marisa and Shawn 5 years and counting. 7/30
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