heading home...

(some of the following was written on 1/17)

picture this....
i'm now officially detoxed from blogging!
but it won't take me long to get off that wagon!
i just spent the past 3 days without internet
service...if you can believe it!

minneapolis airport wants about 8 bucks a day
to connect to their network..nice.
couldn't log on at gary's dad's or felize's place.
i survived.
it's just that i have determined these past few
days that i really look forward to writing...
it's like therapy really.
even gary's dad mentioned that the other day
as i sat down to his computer to post something.
it took me about a half an hour to recall my
login information and when i finally got about
6 or 8 paragraphs in...blogger dropped my entire
post.....photos and all! i almost cried!
i had no choice but to just let it go.

so i'm sitting at the starbucks by our gate at the
sky harbor airport in phoenix...out flight is in
about an hour. 'spose they'll board in 30 minutes
or so.
gary's down the way at a bar in that starbucks
does not have a "vente" bud light in a bottle
and i can't get a tap cappuccino...
so we are separated for the first time this trip.

i'm afraid that due to the lack of time right now
that i will postpone some of the details from
our trip for tomorrow.

but what i can tell you is that while we were here
and you folks in minneapolis were getting dumped
on, the lovelyl residents of phoenix and "outlying
areas" (as lois puts it!) enjoyed a record 3-day stretch
of coldest temps EVER!
we told everyone that it would warm up as soon
as we got back on the plane!!

(1/18)
I'm having difficulties catching up with this blog.
I have many photos and not enough time at
any one stretch to post them so I will post them
along the way over the next couple of days.

tomorrow i plan to get everyone caught up!
we had a really nice time in Arizona visiting Dean & Lois.
we will stay longer next time and take in some
spring training games as the new ball fields
are nearly right across from there development!
golf in the morning and baseball in the afternoon.
the time went way too quickly....as always.
thank you Dean & Lois for everything!!