Safe Arrival

Patty's flight arrived ahead of schedule and we met her at the curb outside baggage claim at around 6:45 AM. The ride home was not without incident as the freeway was closed about two miles south of where we needed to exit - a stabbing death and auto crash. We sat for almost an hour before the police were able to get traffic moving again. At any rate, we made it home safely and started the visit with a round of miniature golf:

We all enjoyed the round and hope to play a few more times this week. There is so much to do and the passes for our family visitors are all ready to use. We took the boys to Brian and Amy's house where they will spend the weekend visiting with Jason. The plan is to meet up again tomorrow at Lake Pleasant following their day out on Brian's boat.

In the meantime, we will do some shopping and go to the different rec centers to get procedural information on the boats to use for fishing on the lake and to get some fishing equipment for the boys to use. We are looking forward to that activity either Monday or Tuesday.

We enjoyed our first night sitting out on the patio and being entertained by the birds and bunnies. This morning, Josie "raided" one of the orange trees and gathered some fresh ones for our breakfast:

They are from our neighbor's tree who has given us permission to take whatever we wanted whenever we wanted. His tree still has lots of tangelos left where our trees are pretty much empty now except for being loaded with new blossoms for the next crop.

The fun has started and we will try to keep up with our activities by reporting them each day...