Today was a fun day! Today hubby and I had plans with my parents to celebrate hubby's birthday so we had to get up by 10am. But both of us woke up before that, I woke up about 930am and he was already in the bathroom doing his morning constitutional. So I went downstairs and got my yogurt and cola and came back up to bed to watch tv. By the time I got back upstairs, it was 950am, and Quincy would be on in 10 minutes. Mom and dad were picking us up at 11am to take us out to lunch then to the Christmas Town at Micheal Garmen's.
I broke away from Quincy long enough to get a shower, then get dressed while hubby showered. I was still getting dressed when my parents called that they were just around the corner. So I yelled down to hubby, who went down to feed the beasties, and when they pulled up, he ran out and told them I would only be another minute, I was taking my morning meds.
They took us to a place called Bon Ton's on the west side. The west side, Old Colorado City, is where I really looked hard to find a house to buy. It's considered the more creative and artistic side of town and there is a lot of self expression in the housing over there. But try as we might, we couldn't find anything in our price range that didn't need a ton of work done. Hence, we bought our current house. More room, cheaper price. If you can call $164,000 cheap!
But the food at Bon Ton's was really good. I was able to order off the senior menu and got the three chicken strips and fries, of which I only ate one chicken strip and some fries. Hubby got the two tamales smothered in green chili with some sides of something. Mom got the senior chicken parmesan, and dad got the Divorced Eggs. Divorced Eggs are two eggs, over easy, one on each side of the platter, with home fries down the middle separating them, with one egg with a red sauce and the other egg with a green sauce. And sourdough toast. Funny!
Then we drove down two blocks and found a parking space right next to Micheal Garmen's. Micheal Garmen is a famous sculptor who is known for his cowboys, firemen, police and a few other sculptures. He makes them and then mass produces them to make them affordable to everybody. Like, a statue of a cowboy was around $100 for the unpainted one, $120 for the hand painted one. Mom and dad bought an unpainted nurse for my sister, Collette, as a graduation present for when she finishes nursing school in a year or two. They got 30% off, so with tax, it only came to $52. That's a great price. I think they bought the display one.
But we were there to go into Christmas town. It's a set up where you walk down this hallway and they have a neighborhood that Micheal has designed and produced, row house, old New York. We are talking about the old neighborhoods with low class living. Ladies in slips hanging out windows, wino passed out on a bench, kids playing on the stoop, people in the bar or the diner. There is a whole neighborhood with windows you could look in and there were holograms speaking here and there, to scale for the neighborhood. There was a pool hall, a store, apartment buildings, a barber, a tattoo parlor, and many other things. There was pictures on the walls in the apartments, sinks, ironing, a piano teacher teaching a little boy. It was amazing. And they had brought in Christmas decorations to scale.
It was so cool! And dad signed us up for the scavenger hunt. Each of the four of us had a different set of things to look for, with a couple of overlapping questions. It was so much fun to search and look at everything. Finally, we had to go ask for a hint for three things we couldn't find. And one of them, the lady couldn't find it either! Hubby finally found it with a hint from another lady at the counter. He showed me where it was and I would have never found it as I couldn't read the name over the door of the building down this alleyway that we had to look from afar.
We were there about 2 hours. It was fun and I think when Drew and Cassie come down for Christmas,we will take them there. They want to go to the Electric Safari at the Zoo again, but we are still looking for the money to renew my membership, which has to be done soon. This will only be $20 for the four of us and that is cheaper than the zoo, and right now, that counts.
When we got home, we got our car and went over to mom and dad's. Hubby was trying to help dad with a computer problem. They eliminated several things it could be and we left with dad being told to call technical support to get his password reset.
Hubby and I went on to Costco to get dry cat food, dry dog food, stomach pills and vitamin D. We got everything but the vitamin D, but also picked up some nilla wafers, romaine lettuce and a cooked whole chicken. I wasn't ready to go home and wanted to eat dinner there with hubby, extend the togetherness we had during the day. I didn't want to go home and eat with Frank. So we went to the snack bar and I got a Berry smoothie and piece of cheese pizza, and hubby got a polish sausage with sauerkraut and a soda. It was nice just sitting there and talking and eating. Just before they closed at 6, we left. When walking to the car, Hubby stopped, and said I thought this was where we parked the car. It was an empty handicapped space. I pointed to the space right next to it and said, we did, right there. We brought Kiggy, the bug. He slapped his forehead and said Oh, I forgot! Too funny! He does this every time we take Kiggy out.
When we got home, Frank had already fed the animals, except for the rattie boys and Tally, who we think is still out. So I got the rattie boys fed, sat with them fora couple of hours for out of the cage time, and had Inry,my cockatiel, out on my shoulder too. So far the rattie boys weren't paying any attention to him, and when Zeke was leaning off the table to sniff in the air in his direct, I didn't encourage it. I think the rats would kill my birds. So right now, Inry is sitting on top of my computer screen while the rattie boys are in the cage in their hammock. They really like that I hooked up a towel for them to snuggle inside of the hammock. I thought they were getting a little cold.
We have finished watching all the Resident Evil movies and are ready for the 6th and final one to come out next year. It's all been in good fun. Season 11 of The Apprentice UK is going on and we have been watching those episodes to get caught up on YouTube. I have just started watching Project Runway Philippines again and think I'm on episode 7 next. It's interesting as half the time, they they are talking in English, and the other half of the time, in their language. It starts with a T.
Yesterday, hubby and I put up the Christmas tree. This is the first year we didn't put it up in the picture window in the craft room. I wanted to keep the sitting area that Drew and Cassie had set up for us and so put it it in the middle of the room, right across from the mirrored coat closet doors, so the Christmas tree lights, it's a pre-lit tree, reflect off the doors. And it's a white tree with pastel lights in green, blue, red and yellow. We recently went to the Dollar Store and bought small ball ornaments in packs with plain, frosted and sparkly. We got them in green, red and gold. Then we bought red and green bells. I had two packs of gold bells at home. Our old ornaments were breaking and there weren't that many of them anymore, so I wanted to get new ones. Then I painted pine cones I had picked up with hubby from his school at the beginning of summer. I used glitter glue in red, gold and green. At first I didn't think they went with all the sleek and shiny balls and bells, but after we got them all on, it looks good! And if you catch it just right, the pine cones sparkle. And mom had picked up some silver and white ornaments in the same size balls for us that look like deep sea diver old fashioned head pieces. Maybe I can find the camera tomorrow and get a picture of the ornaments and the tree to post on here. That would be neat.
Tomorrow I have therapy and then hubby and I will be going through books to find books as presents for Laura's kids, in fact, I think we will give everyone a book for a gift too. But then we will also be going through all the books in the garage to see what we want to keep for ourselves and what we want to take to the used book store to sell for trade.
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