Day 9 - July 5, 2013

Day 9 - July 5, 2013

Phoenix, AZ

Temperature 101 degrees

Marriott Canyon Ranch Vacation Villas

This was literally a housekeeping catch-up day.  So I will warn you now – not much happened, you may want to skip to the pictures below, although there are only a few.

I woke up with a cold/allergy thing.  I suspect there used to be feathers in this room, as my eyes were swollen to golf ball proportions.  Rich had to work and I caught up on the trip blog, downloading pictures, updating the road trip budget, paying bills, confirming reservations, reviewing itineraries and laundry.  Phew - work, work, work.  I also ran to the grocery store to get lunch supplies. 

At 11 a.m. I was on duty as the defacto adult-in-charge.  Rich had conference calls and Jan and Jeff had an appointment with the Marriott people (long story).  I made lunch for everyone then we decamped to the Cochran room to have a carpet picnic.  We ate lunch, cleaned up, applied sun-blocked and marched everyone to the pool.  We stayed there for two and a half hours.  The kids were very good to me.  I got to finish the book I’m reviewing, so it looks like I may make my first Click Lit Plus dead line.

I was relieved from duty around 3, when I retired to the room with Bear to type up a quick rough draft.  Then I talked to Kelly for a while, before heading back to the pool, but was intercepted by everyone returning from the pool.  I showered, made frozen pizzas, fed the kids (rinse, wash, repeat).

Rich, Jeff, Jan and I went to the Dessert Ridge Resort for dinner and had a lively time.  Back to the room and to bed, as we have an early departure tomorrow.