Holiday Inn Express Suites Chandler Phoenix

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... try and dress like the local people. It will be warm there. I'm glad for that as here in Arizona in the desert no less we have had a lot of rain today and a lot of snow in the North. It is just hard to beleive the weather here. Every so often a siginal comes on the TV with a notice of the weather.

... at each other, "Where in the world are we?"

The show was rollicking and the food, great, but you know what was the very best? During the before show entertainment we noticed this Down Syndrome girl sitting under the window writing in her workbook, grinning at nobody, singing along to herself...

Well, the singer introduced her to us. Her name is Melissa and she's the singer's sister. She had written a song and been to Nashville to record it about this ...

Here are some basics facts about Ethiopia:
- Located in Northeast Africa; it shares borders with Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya and Djibouti.
- It is the tenth largest country in Africa - about twice the size of Texas.
- Climate varies by region, from temperate highlands to hot lowland desert.
- Geography is very diverse. Ethiopia has altitudes that span the lowest point in Africa in the Danakil Desert, where Luci, and the more ...

... potato, green bean casserole, broccoli, cauliflower, gravy & cranberry sauce. For dessert either pumpkin or apple pie. Later Janine & I went to a huge craft shop called 'Michael's' where I 'saved' Fred 30% on all my purchases, including all the stuff that was already discounted!

For the famous Thanksgiving Day Sales, we decided to go to Toys R Us first which opened at 12am, but when we (Fred, Janine & I) got there, there was a ...

... it'... after following some yellow footprints through two big sheds out the back with some weird ,
quirky, interesting and just plain odd exhibits (like life-sized carved wooden people in a torture chamber...) we finally found it...an old mummy/skeleton (not sure if genuine, ewww) in a glass box.
Still, right up our alley and glad we stopped.

Once nearing Tuscan we ...

So we got up at 3:30am today to go to Ireland. At 4:30 am there was a knock at the door. Currently at that point Trisha and I had not spoken to eachother knowing full well that we are not morning people and we just needed to go through the motions or a cup of coffee before we are awake. However Trishas father proceeded to enter the house and pick us up to go to the airport. From the moment he walked in to the moment he ...

... The thing I don't know about Superstition Highway is that it has really tall walls all along it, so that there is no way to see what is at any exit, such as a gas station, for instance. Exit after exit, I crane my neck, hoping to see some tall sign advertising gas, but there's nothing. We decide not to risk just getting off and looking. We're going to merge onto I-10, and then up 143 to the airport. I figure we'll see something there. Except that I-10 is a zoo, 143 is ...

Got organized and just barely made it out of the hotel before the noon check out. Trying to get six people up, cleaned up, and packed with only one bathroom, does present some logistical challenges. The drive from Diego to Phoenix is pretty cool. Mostly desert with not much else but cactuses (cacti?) and an occasional small town. This results in ...

Homeward bound at last. My journeys to foreign lands have expanded my tastes and my experience. I have seen so much that the absorption of these new experiences will take a long time. I've developed a taste for wine, an appreciation of ornamentation, and a broader point of reference. A very wonderful trip indeed.