Wed - Feb 29/12

Happy Leap Day!

If your wife was born on Leap Day and she was 60 years old and you just got married would your honeymoon technically be statutory rape?

Catherine (Charlotte's sister) called and then emailed her flight information. She will be coming on March 7 for 15 days. Once I had the info I biked up to the Activities Desk to purchase an extra ticket for Catherine for each of the events occurring while she is here. It was also the end of the month and time to pay the monthly utility fees.

Once accomplished we took the car over to the Chase Bank across the road to activate our new Debit Cards. Then we were on our way to the Enterprise Car Rental in Apache Junction, AZ to make car rental arrangements for Catherine's arrival. The car we tow down is a 2 seater - three is a crowd! A rental is needed when visitor's come so we can pick them up at the airport and tour during their stay.

The municipalities down here frown on large business signs. If you didn't know there was an Enterprise office in the local car dealership you would never find it - even when in the dealership parking lot. They are not even allowed outside business signage. This is the case with most business establishments. They are mostly allowed only a flat name/trademark sign on a building wall. Even in large mall complex areas it is hard to tell where particular stores are located as the unified architecture theme does not give a clue.

Rental arrangements were made and we were off for lunch. The Power Road exit (188) on US-60 has every major name and type of restaurant or service within a mile. Our choice was LobsterFest at Red Lobster. We will have Red Lobster (shrimp) tonight for supper - their was too much to eat at one sitting. We sacrificed the Lobster first! The shrimp will be supper.

Once again we passed on going to a movie. They have some odd show times - maybe working around the rush hour. We e

Once around the park in the car to see if there was anything new. There was a Prevost Coach (The "Cadillac" of RV's - proudly made in Quebec, Canada) on Glen's lot. I stopped to see if it was Glen and he had purchased a new rig. It was a friend of his (from Hudson, QC - one of our favourite rides when back home) who brought us up to date. Glen had bought a house nearer the Superstition Mountains just north of the RV Park. Perhaps we will see him when he visits the park?

We went for a bike ride in the new "Superstition Views" area. It is now mostly all paved increasing the number of bikers of the pedal power type. Nice - no traffic! The sky is clear; however, not the usual really deep blue. Their is still dust in the air from the high winds a few days ago. At least it is not as intense as during the wind storm when the particulate count was so high one could actually taste the air. Now that the cold spell is over it will be mid-80's by the weekend. Terrific for NASCAR. This weekends race in Phoenix expects 5000 RVers to camp around the track for the race. I will go out on a limb and guarantee the race will not be postponed by rain like the recent Daytona 500.

More high winds coming in - still better than the tornadoes in the mid-west that had 16 pop up overnight. Early for tornadoes - might be part of the higher than average temps here this year.

Quilt tasks today for Charlotte included winding more thread on bobbins and pinning the quilt edge for stitching.

Looking forward to Catherine's visit already!