Wow, where to start. Hmm, probably the beginning.
I've been Assistant Manager at the AmericInn for a few months now and I've gotta say it's working pretty good. I've been dealing with all sorts of people. Even the bitchy ones. Starting to build my comeback speeds and quick thinking on my feet. Awesome!
Heck, just last weekend I kicked a big group out of the pool area because they had food in there. No food is aloud because it ALWAYS gets on the floor. And sure as they left, there was some bits of food on the floor and the ants were starting to come to feast. Ugh. So they went into the lobby to eat and I had to tell them to shut up a couple times. They were drunk. And loud. And quite inappropriate. There was a guest who had complained that a couple of them were making sexual remarks towards her.
And there was another guy with that group who decided to start yelling in the hallway with his pants down. Eeeewww. He had to be in his 40s.
The kids were perfectly well behaved. Didn't have to scold any of them once. It's ALWAYS the parents who need baby sitting.
Okay, that's my rant. :P
In other news, Arizona was fantastic! It was sunny, warm, exciting, fun, and sunny. Grandma and Grandpa were great hosts. Took lots of pictures with my cellphone. My cellphone has an 8.1 Megapixel camera. It works great and is pretty compact.
I brought along what is now one of my favorite books called Ender's Game. It had me completely hooked. I read it almost nonstop. While I was in bed, in the van, waiting for food at a restaurant, any chance I got. It was excellent.
It takes place a number of years in the future. The main character, Ender Wiggin, is chosen in lieu of his much stronger older brother to join a battle school to train for an inevitable war against The Buggers. The Buggers had attacked Earth twice before, almost completely destroying it.
While in Battle School, Ender quickly learns that he's on his own and must defend himself and fend for himself because the administrators intend to teach him to think on his own. He's a fast learner and eventually leads and trains his own unbeatable platoon. None of the other captains can defeat him in the combat training.
It's a fast read with a very nicely done twist ending.
Okay, enough of that, back to Arizona.
I flew out of the Chippewa Valley Airport. That is one tiny airport. Took a puddle jumper to the Minneapolis airport. It only took about 20 minutes. About 100 miles. Pretty fast.
Anyway, waited an hour there then got on my plane to Tucson where I was greeted by Grandma and Auntie Debbie. Grandpa was circling around with the van. :P
So on the way to Debbie's, I noticed that everything was BROWN. The only green I saw was weeds and cacti. Oh well, I didn't complain. It was warm!
After stopping at Debbie's we went to Grandma and Grandpa's and I got settled into the guest bedroom. I don't know WHY I did that, seeing as how I only got it for ONE NIGHT! Mom came the next day and confiscated the bedroom from me and banished me to the living room floor on a blow up mattress. Oh well. It wasn't too bad. Although it got surprisingly cold during the night.
One time during the night there was a police car siren blaring down Speedway and it made all the Coyote's in the field behind the park start howling. It sounded pretty creepy, yet sweet at the same time.
Anyway, throughout the week we went to various parks and and mountain ranges and restaurants.
I think I'll let the pictures do the talking. I'm copying them all from my Photobucket account. There's just too many to go through individually and put in a decent order. But they're pretty close.
They're called "Waterfowls", not ducks! Lol!
Couple of kids on a giant hill of sand.
I should think of a name for this guy. How about Flashlight. Yeah. We'll call the turtle Flashlight.
And it has nothing to do with the flashlight sitting next to me.
A seemingly endless field of military aircraft. It was pretty sweet.
Cool face.
$5 foot longs are back! Boy, that's a big footlong!
On top of A Mountain
On top of another mountain. In a later picture, try to spot where I am!
RV Sunset.
Cacti and mountains and trees.
Boy, I'd hate to be the guy posing for that drawing.
Up in Sabino Canyon.
IT'S BILLY! HEY EVERYBODY LOOK! BILLY!!!!! :D:D:D:D
More Sabino Canyon
Grandma and Grandpa fording the river. Their oxen died of Dysentery
I wanted to be in the Rodeo, but mom said no. She's so MEAN!
THEY'RE FUZZY! LIKE A TEDDY BEAR! :D
Right Ryan?
Look! It's a jack rabbit! Thing was HUGE!
More Cacti.
A panorama shot while on top of a large rock.
The Scorpion. I'll go into details a bit later. ;)
This is a hotel. A fricken AWESOME hotel. Expensive, though. I think a standard room
would set you back about $300 a night! At least!
More Driving.
Okay, here are Grandpa's pictures that he took.
A hot spring. Wasn't that warm, though. :P But the Waterfowls liked it!
It's that small town where they film movies that I can't think of the name of! Yeah!
Can you find me in these pictures?
I'm pretending to be a waterfowl. Quack!
Check out this young lady I posed with. :)
I didn't fall in. But I did see bee's. I ran away soon after.
It's A Mountain!!!!
So those are all the pictures I have. Now I suppose you're wondering about that alcoholic beverage up there.
So, yeah, Shannon took me out that night. We went to a nice Japanese/Sushi restaurant where they had a Mexican guy working there. My head almost asploded! Although that could've been from the Wasabi. Boy that was hot!
After getting a full meal in me, she took me to the local favorite bar, 'Kontiki', where she ordered The Scorpion. After a quick Google search, this is what is in it:
- juice of half a lime
- 1 1/2 oz orange juice
- 1/4 oz triple sec
- 3/4 oz brandy
- 3/4 oz light rum
- 1 oz dark rum
Afterwards we went back to her house (well, I sort of stumbled), and watched Night at the Museum as I drank a 40oz of Smirnoff Watermelon. That was fun.
Luckily I drank a lot of water throughout the night, because I didn't have a hangover in the morning. I'm surprised I made up the ladder to Erics bed, though. Wow.
Aaaanyway, that's the end of that.
The next day we went to the swap meet. I really didn't find anything of interest. At all. Nothing. Oh well.
I think I covered just about everything in the trip.
Oh! While I was there I had gotten an email from a local photographer who wanted to do a photoshoot with me. Free of charge. Of course I agreed.
So a couple days after I got home, I did the unthinkable. Again. Got a chest wax! (And it started growing back less than a week later. Ugh, my hair grows too fast).
And the next day after the wax I had the photoshoot. Check em out:
So that's that.
Right now at work my Manager is in Fort Meyers helping with the opening of a new AmericInn Motel and left ME in charge. Mister Assistant Manager. Hehehe. Things are going well. All the numbers are adding up. Sweet.
I just got word from mom that I'm being invited to Reno on the 25th of April to assist with the conference going on down there. All expense paid. ;) (thanks mum).
And it is a NICE hotel/casino. Hehehehehehe.
Okay, well that's about all the news I've got.
Yes, I'm still working on that video. I'm just really lazy and have been taking my sweet sweet time on it. And running into several several bumps along the way. It's much much much more complicated than the Bohemian Rhapsody video.
Goodnight!
