Kofa Inn Parker

... their actual slogan by the way. We had another unscheduled hike along the natural beeches, through a cactus garden, saw a few hares and chipmunks, spoke to a Yugoslavian religious fanatic, bathed in the smell of **** as Paul mentioned. And to cap it off, beat Paul at chess in just over an hour. Gotta watch that Queen Paul, or i'll have my way with her everytime heh heh.

Enroute to Grand Canyon, we made a quick pit-stop at Lake Havasu City, to break the journey and to visit the original London Bridge. The City of London sold the bridge to the founder of Lake Havasu and it was dismantled in the UK and reassembled in the USA brick by brick. The bridge looks just like the one in London, just more pristine.

Urban legend has it that the silly American actually intended to purchase Tower Bridge, but thought that it was called London Bridge.

It's 12:47 a.m., early Sunday morning.

My last day in the United States for 3 1/2 months! Tomorrow we leave for Mexico! I'll finally get to use my passport :) Our flight on AeroMexico leaves at 2:20 p.m. and we arrive in Mexico City around 9:30 p.m. From there, I will give abrazos (hugs) and besos (kisses) to my dear cast mates and depart for Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico! Yay :)

Today was also our last show day in the United States. It was our best show yet and I'm so proud ...

... s encore performance. Our host family, Donna and Herb, and Donna's friend, Barbara, really enjoyed the performance and are going to try to come back tonight! Yay!

I saw my friend, Jamie Kirkpatrick, last night as well. Jamie was my freshman year orientation leader at Concordia and is now an 8th grade English teacher in Lake Havasu. It was so wonderful to see Jamie last night :) I haven't seen her since she ...

... culture dancing, a culture cake walk, an UWP coloring station, booths displaying cultural ideas from each country represented in our cast, and of course, an UWP show booth where one could buy tickets to our show :)

I've never painted so many Batman symbols, spiders, hearts, flowers, or peace signs in my life! Some of the children were very specific too. For example, I painted a flower with white petals, green leaves, a green stem with a lady bug ...

... absolute blast. Imagine a large room with big round tables that seat at least eight or ten people. In you go (we had a reservation) and you get your own drinks and your order is taken from the very limited menu. Our waitress was a great lady with tons of makeup and a hairdo from the mid fifties. ( Remember the back combed and teased hair in a mound so high birds could nest in it) Our order is placed and while we are waiting the desert lady comes by, we politely say ...

... where two women cousins make signs and badges). We then walked over to our favorite eating place (Bad Boys) to have breakfast. They have a tarp like carport with a heater for tables and then outside seating too. Since it was still pretty cool, we chose the tent with the heater. Alas, the tables were occupied. Long tables with one or two people. A couple invited us to sit with them. We took one end of the table as they had the ...

... have some fun and he can show Dale this country as he has been here longer than we have. Morgan stayed home, but keeps looking out the back window to see where her master is. She and I will go for a walk real soon. I am baking banana bread! I forgot about using applesauce instead of butter. Rats ...

... the literature, Parker Dam is the deepest dam in the world with over 235 feet of the total 320 feet below the original riverbed. There was a guard post at the dam crossing, we were prohibited from stopping on the dam and we were running short on time, so we did not spend much time at the dam. Our final destination is the Emerald Canyon Golf Course and I wanted to be able to tee off early enough to finish before the sunsets. I do not know who ...

Happy New Year everyone. Barry & I have been having some exciting adventures over the last month. We have been hiking in Joshua Tree N.P. for 4 days and had 6 amazing days in Death Valley. It was fascinating visiting the salt flats 285 ft. below sea level, climbing huge sand dunes and hiking through canyons and up high buttes. Gorgeous weather too! We had a roaring fire at our campsite for ...