We're baack!! Fall Trip 2013

We left the dreary grey weather behind on Thursday and are now enjoying the sunshine!!  It's been 80's and 90's here and in the sun over 100 - just perfect.  Cool in the morning and evening but daytime temperatures are lovely.

The little Mazda that Craig's Mom gave us is here permanently so we did some running around on Friday and it's now insured here and had an emissions test.  Yay! it pased!!




One more piece to the puzzle and we will get an Arizona licence plate!!  It's not a bad little car  and gets great mileage.  Taking the shuttle from the airport is actually faster than getting the rental car so it's all good.

We have already had company for dinner and have done groceries a few times.  I love the selections at the grocery stores here and the suitcase is already getting some gluten free treats packed in it.  We also have some food set aside for the plane ride home.  Nothing worse than being hungry on a plane.  

Craig had to go to a motorcycle shop so I took the opportunity to be dropped off at The Container Store.  Such neat things and fantastic organizers.   Fell in love with these waste baskets - too cute!!

I bought exciting things like more hangers and some cedar blocks for the closets.  I did get a really cool lunch bag where the bag itself is the cooler pack.  It says it lasts for up to 10 hours but I give it maybe 5 hours in a car in the Arizona heat! 

Live and Learn
With the heat in the condo over the summer we have found that it affected some things like food and candles.  Food can go "off" even in the package and it smells and tastes like the packing..ugh!  Not good.  Candles become the leaning candles and kinda go in a puddle.  Guess we either don't have them or put them in the fridge for the summer!!  A good dusting of the outdoor furniture and the outside is fine - at least that is easy care.

Plans for this trip
Our plans are we have no plans!  The condo is "done" except for some renovations we would like to do and that probably won't happen for a few years so we can just enjoy now.  We do plan to go to Sedona one of our days to do another Pink Jeep Tour.  We will pick another one we have not done yet.  It's probably going to be the Gulch tour.  We also hope to go to Jerome at some point and I am hoping the glass blower's will be doing their thing this time.  We will find a nice place for lunch with a view of the valley - it's such a neat spot. 

Enjoying today!
Well the Mr. is off to meet some friends and then off for a day motorcycle ride so I am on my own today to do some retail therapy.  First up is what appears to be a nice wool shop in Scottsdale.  Hopefully they will have some nice selections that we don't see at home and some different patterns.   The biggest dilemma I had, since I don't need to pack clothes for here, was which knitting project(s) to bring along.  Of course I wish I had brought the "other" one but I did get a hat started on the plane ride which I will finish here.  Weird to be knitting for the cold when you are in the heat! 

Well, I have had a very busy day of retail therapy so I think that's it for now.   Leftovers for dinner and then a movie tonight.

ahhh....love it!!