Hey again,
We have finally gotten our car back from Sanderson. They didn’t install the nameplate correctly (much lower than it should be). Also, there were some items in the trunk that were installed incorrectly. Really poor service. I would never recommend Sanderson Ford Lincoln for any auto body work. We talked with them about it and they said they would take our car in later on in the month and will try to fix it.
To try to take our minds off of that frustration we decided to go out to eat. We tried something new: Valle Luna. It wasn’t bad, but probably isn’t somewhere we will go again.
We were able to go to the fan festival for the Cardinals. It was pretty cool (see the photos above). The girl was even able to meet and take a photo with Big Red – she was pretty excited but only wanted to look at him rather than taking a photo. Before I knew it the weekend was over and I was back at work. The following week went pretty close and I was back at Church the following week. Above is a photo of Arabella waiting with us before church.
The following Friday we dropped our car off at Sanderson and they provided us with a loaner car for the weekend. What does that mean? TRAVEL! Free miles, and a free car to add a bunch of miles on. We zoomed off to Los Angeles. We visited the filming location for one of the wife’s favorite movies – “Til There was You”
It is always a cool thing to me when you visit a filming location. The history of these places that are forever captured on film. Plus in a lot of cases, they are normal spaces used by regular folks each day.
After we went here, we met up with my parents and headed over to the beach. Arabella loves getting wet up to her knees. I’m sure if we let her she would try swimming but that is not happening. We walked the beach afterward and noticed that there was a memorial hidden on the side of the beach pier.
It was an Alaska Air flight 261 Memorial. It crashed on January 31st, 2000.
After spending some time taking photos of the memorial we made our way back home. Getting back in the Phoenix area close to 6 am the next day (also arrived to a beautiful sunrise).
Jake was excited to be back with us and he would lay down and just purr right next to us. I can’t say he minds when we leave for a day because we fill up his bowl with food to last him until we are back.
Work again, here is a photo of the multiple windows I have up on one of my monitors. There is another ECCO popup that normally fills the black area when I’m on a call.
What else? The wife took some cute photos of Ara while I was at work. Having a picnic with her favorite stuffed animals.
We went to one of those crafty places to make a tile for my parents for Christmas made with imprints of feet. Arabella had some dirty feet afterward – but I think that it will turn out great. I leave you with a photo of the girl all happy to be up and about at a local Starbucks who took it upon themselves to create a mural of the Starbucks logo and left the face off so that anyone could be the logo.
just Pray
note: this post was published on 09/30/22 but moved the publish date back to the end of August 2014 to keep chronological order.
