December 10, 2007

• I wanted to take a minute to write.

  I have been on the road traveling to and from Phoenix most
  of November.

  How nice it was to be in the
  warm weather, though missing the family terribly.  The first trip out I went for two weeks and
  took in a weekend. My Pop who lived there for 10 yrs, gave me the insiders tip.
  He just never disappoints when it comes to adventure. He told me to go out to
  this place called Apache Trail; it is a long road that eventually turns to
  dirt. The road winds though the mountains, passing a few lakes and many deep ravines.
   I sure wish I could have traveled that
  road with my Pop. I could just hear his voice in my head telling stories and
  laughing with his wide smile.  That trip
  made me officially fall in love with the desert. What a beautiful and strange
  place. It is as if everything out there is saying “get the hell off of me”. Here
  is a tip, don’t lean a Saguaro Cactus, it don’t want your touch.

  I did not see much wild life except a roadrunner and
  quail.  I visited the Botanical Garden at
  Papago Park and shopped at the swap meet. I had a lot of fun running around the
  city.

  Then I went back home for little
  Georgia’s 4^th birthday. We took the family to Chuck E. Cheese. My
  brother & his girl went.  I was not
  sure what to expect, but we all had a good time. Both kids got a toy with all
  of the tickets that we won.  We returned
  to the house to open presents and eat cake & ice cream.  Georgia got to open her present from us twice,
  as she decided to open the gift when it was delivered by Fed Ex just days prior
  to her birthday.  Dwayne found her
  playing with the toy in her room and scolded her. I was heavily disappointed. I
  had no idea how bad it makes a parent feel to find the surprise to be sprung without
  watching. So I wrapped it up and she opened it again on her birthday. We finally
  played with it last night, only two weeks later. It is a Eye Clops, you plug it
  into the TV, like a video game and then you put the Eye ball on something and
  it magnifies by 200% or something. FYI, mostly everything is very disgusting really
  close up. Georgia Loved it.

  I went back to Phoenix for a
  week. It was good the second time around but I did not have a weekend.  I came home on a Saturday and went back to
  work Monday so it didn’t feel like I got a weekend at all. Such is life
  sometimes.

  Dwayne & Georgia went to see
  Playhouse Disney on Friday; it was a Father/Daughter date. It was very cute.  It was part of her birthday.  She got her picture taken with Handy Manny
  which she promptly informed me that he “is Plastic”, mildly disappointed.  There is just no fooling my girl.
  

  
  

  Gold Field Ghost Town at the beginning of Apache Trail
  

  

  

  Along the Apache Trail
  

  

  Apache Lake

  

  I love these barrel cacti, they look like desert jack-o-lanterns!
  

  The Sunset at the botanical garden was Amazing.

  

  

  

  

   

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