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The weekend's here, now what? At 9:15 this morning my phone said the temp was 93* and the high for today is going to be 109*. The other shot was for San Diego where the high today is going to be 73*. I know which one sounds better to me. Morg had to come over and see what I was doing and kind of blocked the shot.
I haven't done a blog entry in a while so I thought I would do a quick one tonight. Last weekend the family all came to support Ryan and Sochilt because the 3 babies were blessed in church. It was good to see and spend time with everyone. I had fun going to see Up in 3-D, we played miniature golf one night, had a nice big meal with everyone at Ryan's house on Sunday. It's rare and can be pretty stressful to be with both parents and their spouses all at the same time. The lunch party was went great though. Rob and Brandy stayed at my house with me. Mindy stayed over 2 nights, and Malakye even stayed over 1 night. Mom came out to help with the triplets like a week before. I really enjoyed getting to spend some quality time with her. Whether it was going out to dinner at one of our favorite spots, or the 70 mile car ride out to Em's house, I enjoyed spending that time with my Mama.
Today was my flex day. I went shopping around for a new treadmill. I found one I like but it's big. It comes in a box and I wasn't sure if it would fit in the Xterra. I'm going to see if I can get someone to help me pick it up, get it home and upstairs.
While I was out today I also got a big-boy-burrito from Chipotle and went and saw The Land of the Lost movie. It was kind of silly but it was ok. I used to really like the old tv show. I still like Sleestacks.
Sunday morning we noticed a crowd of people waiting to get into this cafe for breakfast. This morning we walked over and checked it out. It's called Cafe Joie, it's French. I want to remember it because it was a pretty cool place and I want to go back. After breakfast we walked on Mission Beach, the sun was out today and it felt really nice. Before we left we had to say goodbye to the 2 sea loins that were part of a rescue program and now live at the resort..
The drive home was kind of fun, we stopped a few times and weren't in a really big hurry. On the California side of Yuma we stopped at the Imperial Sand Dunes. We got out of the truck for a few minutes but it was really hot. On the way the other day the dunes were spotted with tons of ATV's and dune buggies. There were also lots of motor homes but today we didn't see anyone other than the Border Patrol trucks out there. Closed during the week maybe? .
We also stopped at another place that we noticed on the drive over. It's Felicity California. It was kind of a weird experience. I don't even know how to explain it, we were saying after we were kicked out that we had just been to the Twilight Zone. I tried to look up Felicity online just now and am still a little confused about what it is. I didn't spent too much time on the website because I wanted to do this quick blog entry tonight. There's a spiral staircase, a pyramid, a church on the hill, and a couple dozen long granite slabs with engravings. We were walking around and looking at some of the engravings and were heading towards the church. There were a few cars around but we didn't see anyone. That was until this lady started yelling at us. We were pretty far away and she was shouting for us to come back and saying we can't just wander aimlessly. As we were walking to her she kept shouting at us. When we got up to her she asked for us to come inside and start the tour with a video. We said we didn't want to take a tour because of time, we had to get going. She was really unpleasant. She said it will only take 20 minutes, and we said no thanks we're just going to go. Every time we started to take a few steps to go back to truck she would say things like "what did you know about Felicity before now?", I said nothing, then she said "ok so what do you know about Felicity now?" I said again, nothing. She said "well, you took the time to pull off the highway, and took the time to walk all the way up there, and he took the time to take a few snapshot photos but you don't have the time to actually learn something?" This lady was really agitated. She said "If you don't want to learn anything you might as well leave, because looking at things and not having any idea what it is, is pretty foolish. My friend asked her what the problem was and said that if people were required to take a tour then we're sorry and didn't know. She told the lady that we didn't see any signs or an office building. The lady didn't say anything at first but as soon as we started to walk away, she started shouting about how a tour is not required, but if this is the first visit we should try to learn about it and not just wander aimlessly about. We kept walking, she even said "it's too hot out here for all of this". We got back in the truck and were like let's get the heck out of here. It felt really strange for me, I don't get in arguments with people. Not that this was an argument but it just felt really weird. Oh, at one point my friend also told the lady that she didn't need to be scolding us like we we're 12 yr old kids. The lady said "well when I looked out and saw you all the way up there looking around aimlessly (she said that about 5 times) I don't know if you are kids, that's why I had to make you come back here and ask if this is your 1st visit to Felicity" It was a Twilight Zone moment. We had some fun joking around about it afterwards, we wondered what we would do if we came home and weren't able find any records of this town on the Internet. Here's a site that I found with Google www.felicityusa.com. I'll have to look at it some more tomorrow..
The background on my computer at work is a picture I took in Durango last weekend. That's the view from Honeyville looking out towards the river. I had a good week and it went by pretty fast. Monday was my flex day, and I went to the Dbacks baseball game Thursday and Friday nights. On Thursday I met Nathan, Kye and Brody at the game. I had a really good time. There was lots of action in the game and we did a lot of cheering and cottoncandy-sticky-handed high-fives. I had a blast. I went to the game again last night. Todd and I took the light rail and got some dinner at Honey Bears, then rode it back down to the ballpark. 
