Oct 22nd to 24th - Mesa

Oct 22nd – Sat
We went to the Mesa Marketplace fairly early this morning so it wouldn’t be too hot there. I bought new Dawg’s sandals as I discovered in Yuma that too much direct sunlight (or just heat) makes them shrink. Gloria’s sandals shrunk from being in their park model here over the summer. We stopped at WalMart on the way back.
After lunch we went to the pool for quite a while as it seemed really hot even though it didn’t reach 100 today. We visited Dennis & Gloria and then we all went to Neal & Judy’s for dinner. Also there were Larry & Julie, Billy & Lauri and Kathy & Dennis. Kathy has a park model right behind Neal & Judy and they figured they better invite her as we are kind of loud!

Oct 23rd – Sun
Neal brought our tables and chairs back but he didn’t bring the storage bags so we rode our bikes over to get them. Then we stopped to visit with Larry & Julie. A bit later Dennis & Gloria came over and we watched a football game outside with them. Just before that game was done, Ron & Terri came over and stayed to chat and watch another football game. Mike & Susie joined us part way through the 2nd football game.
They all left and we watched a World Series game and had dinner.

Oct 24th – Mon
Terry left at 6:15 for a 6:45 tee time with Ron, Mike and Bob (he and his wife Sandy came in yesterday and are friends with Ron, etc). I sort of dozed for a while longer and then did emails and called sister Marg. I was still chatting with her when Terry returned about 10.
We went to pick up baby backs on sale and stopped at Arby’s for an early lunch. After packaging the ribs for the freezer, we went to Best Buy to look at cameras. We picked the brains of a couple of very knowledgeable employees and then went to Costco where we bought the same brand (Panasonic) camera that we saw at Best Buy but with more features for less money.
We went for a short swim and then rode to Larry & Julie’s. Billy & Lauri were there so after chatting a bit we all decided to go to Fat Willy’s for “$5 hamburger Monday”. Neal & Judy also joined us. Fat Willy’s was very crowded but we all had good meals and cold beer and were home in time to miss just a couple of dances on DWTS. You have to remember that a lot of shows start on Central time here in AZ.