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It's cold outside
Dec. 9th, 2012 07:56 pmSo over Thanksgiving I went out to see my sister and her family and my parents in Arizona. The flight out was pretty okay. Standard stuff these days and I have seen that whatever gate your plane comes in, expect to walk at least a half mile to get your connecting flight. Seriously. I got my exercise in the airports. I have also discovered my limit in sitting on a plane is 4-5 hours before the butt goes totally numb and it feels like I'm sitting on a boulder.
It was nice out there. The hottest it got was in the mid 80s and then it went down to the 50s at night. It was pretty perfect temperature wise. But you definitely sunglasses. I'm told that you can get ulcers because of the sun shining so much. And things can get very dusty easily.
The downer was that because of the salt in the water, at some point, you will need a filtration system on your shower unless you have tons of lotion because after a while, the salt will dry out the skin and sometimes make it seem like you haven't washed your hair. There were water stations and places to get huge bags of ice fairly cheap. For 5 gallons, it's like 50 cents, and a $1.25 for a bag of ice.
But then what place doesn't have one downside to living in the area.
This is the view from my parents place. They have a cute little single wide trailer that is in a community where half the people drive down from Washington/Canada. So they are only allowed to be there for six months before they have to go back.
I don't have a passport so we couldn't go to the place my sister and BiL go over the Mexican border. A nice bottle of Kalhua there is 6-8 bucks. You are only allowed to take one bottle per person. Next time. I'll have to work on getting a passport when I get my tax return this year. Nice thing is there, they are allowed to sell alcohol in the grocery store so it was still easy to get, though about for twice the cost apparently. And my BiL made some killer White Russians. That's the most I've drank in a long time. Got the stuff to make it when I got back. (16 for the Kahlua, 13 for the Vanilla Vodka. Go State stores).
The flight back wasn't so smooth. For some reason, when I was leaving, we were just sitting on the runway for a good 10-15 minutes. Which made us late getting into LA. So it was then RUN the half mile to the connecting flight (I am so out of shape for that) only to find that they JUST closed the doors. There were four of us and one of the others was going back up to Washington State for college and she was in tears because she had an 8:30 class in the morning and the closest thing they could get her is having her go into Washington after 10. There wasn't anything else so she had to take the flight. Hopefully her professor would understand that it was something that she couldn't control. The flight had been going to San Fran and then I was going to Chicago. They managed to get me a straight flight in Chicago in another 2 hours so I could actually get my connecting flight from O'Hare to home.
Keep in mind, if you ever going to a place the is deserty in nature along the West Coast. The winter months is the best time to go because it's not in triple digits out there for the weather.
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It was nice out there. The hottest it got was in the mid 80s and then it went down to the 50s at night. It was pretty perfect temperature wise. But you definitely sunglasses. I'm told that you can get ulcers because of the sun shining so much. And things can get very dusty easily.
The downer was that because of the salt in the water, at some point, you will need a filtration system on your shower unless you have tons of lotion because after a while, the salt will dry out the skin and sometimes make it seem like you haven't washed your hair. There were water stations and places to get huge bags of ice fairly cheap. For 5 gallons, it's like 50 cents, and a $1.25 for a bag of ice.
But then what place doesn't have one downside to living in the area.
This is the view from my parents place. They have a cute little single wide trailer that is in a community where half the people drive down from Washington/Canada. So they are only allowed to be there for six months before they have to go back.
I don't have a passport so we couldn't go to the place my sister and BiL go over the Mexican border. A nice bottle of Kalhua there is 6-8 bucks. You are only allowed to take one bottle per person. Next time. I'll have to work on getting a passport when I get my tax return this year. Nice thing is there, they are allowed to sell alcohol in the grocery store so it was still easy to get, though about for twice the cost apparently. And my BiL made some killer White Russians. That's the most I've drank in a long time. Got the stuff to make it when I got back. (16 for the Kahlua, 13 for the Vanilla Vodka. Go State stores).
The flight back wasn't so smooth. For some reason, when I was leaving, we were just sitting on the runway for a good 10-15 minutes. Which made us late getting into LA. So it was then RUN the half mile to the connecting flight (I am so out of shape for that) only to find that they JUST closed the doors. There were four of us and one of the others was going back up to Washington State for college and she was in tears because she had an 8:30 class in the morning and the closest thing they could get her is having her go into Washington after 10. There wasn't anything else so she had to take the flight. Hopefully her professor would understand that it was something that she couldn't control. The flight had been going to San Fran and then I was going to Chicago. They managed to get me a straight flight in Chicago in another 2 hours so I could actually get my connecting flight from O'Hare to home.
Keep in mind, if you ever going to a place the is deserty in nature along the West Coast. The winter months is the best time to go because it's not in triple digits out there for the weather.
In other news,
writerverse is celebrating it's 1st birthday. And we've just start Phase 5. It's a very fun community that challenges your writing skill and there are lots of fun challenges to take place in. It's open to fanfic and original writing. Stop in and give it a go. The current Phase will be going to February so it's going to be three months of fun and trying to get your team the points.
