Nov 30th to Dec 2nd - Mesa

Nov 30^th – Mon

Two quiet mornings in a row! The weather is remaining cool so it is nice to “hibernate” in front of the fireplace. I finally made breakfast for lunch and then we did a bit of shopping – hat ornamentation which we found at Big Lots and something for a gift exchange which we didn't find but we did get new jeans for Terry since this is “long pants” weather and we tossed most of his old, beat up jeans.

We went to MCY from 3-5 where we danced to Midnight Moon.

Dec 1^st – Tues

Hard to believe that we have been here for 3 months! Terry got a blue ray DVD player to we had to set it up. Not as easy as it sounds as everything has to be plugged in behind the 48” TV which is mounted on the wall above the fireplace. We even had to put the TV back up so Terry could go to Home Depot for a short extension cord to complete the installation. Luckily it did work once it was all back together!

We danced to Armour Gomez at MCY this afternoon. He was here last season and we saw him at Show Low in June – good music. We got chicken strips at the courtyard when we left and I added a salad for dinner. I wanted something quick as we were going to line dance lessons at 6:30.

Dec 2^nd – Wed

Back to shopping. We decided to go to Kohl's since my $30 & 25% off need to be used by the 6^th. I was looking for shoes but the shoe department was a total mess and no salespeople were in sight so we went to the Kohl's at Signal Butte. We found our gift exchange item and I got 4 “golf” shirts (my usual garb) for a total of $12.72. We stopped for a burger for lunch and then continued shoe shopping with no luck.

I put together devilled eggs for later and Terry checked out Dueling Pianos in the courtyard. He didn't stay long! We were relaxing when Lawrence stopped by. He is the brother of a guy (Tom) who we met last season when someone thought he looked like Terry. Lawrence looks like Tom so we had to get a picture of the 3 of them a week or so ago before Tom left for Mexico. Then Elsie & Ralph joined us. Coats required but we sat outside.

We went to Jerry & Becky's “Silly Hat” party at 6. Everyone brought appies – and drinks of course – and recorded music was provided by Bruce which meant we had to line dance. A good – no, make that great – time was had by the nearly 70 guests.