new skills

So Last night I decided to do some knitting and made little baby Lucy and pretty pink flower headband.  when I was making it Travis decided that he wanted to learn how to knit.  So I am in the process of teaching the seven year how to knit.  He is trying really hard to learn it.  He really is a smart little boy.  Maria also is trying her best to knit.  She has it except she has the problem that a lot of new knitters have as it gets longer it gets wider.   Now to teach Miriam how to knit.

Traveling

So Maria and I are at the airport all we want is to get something to drink.  so we go into this cafe place and we are standing there reading the menu and figuring out what we want. Once we decided and  the lady asked us if it was here or go, we go to order.  The lady would not take our order from where we were standing because it was to go and we needed to be by the register.  so we walked the two feet out of the place around the rope and up to the register to order.  I found it funny that we were the only people in there ordering two soda pops and she wouldn't take our orders until we were by the register.  I would not be happy if my employees treated our customers like that.

We were not assigned seats when we checked in and when we went up to the desk to get em the lady there told us no we couldn't sit next to each other and then wouldn't help us out.   when they started boarding we went up and asked for seats and she tells us you have been sitting there a while.  Yes we were and when we asked for seats you told us no and would not help us.   This same lady also called zone 4 to board the plane and then freaked out when zone 4 was boarding the plane and not zone 3.  I can't believe how rude the people are at the atlanta airport.  grr

anyways being in Italy is awesome.  the kids are great. Baby Lucy sure  likes to make her noises,  Travis loves to play.   and then there are always pictures that are taken when you visit people.

one could be cloned 

Thanksgiving

So my Thanksgiving break was awesome.  Work went very smoothly on Wednesday so we were able to get out by 2.  Budget didn't give me any problems when I went to pick up the rental car.  We ate a late lunch with Derk and then Zach and I were on the road to Tucson.  We arrived at his parent's house around 9pm, they were very nice and waited up for us to get there. After meeting them we headed over to see our pal Joe,  who we hadn't saw in while.   On Thanksgiving itself I woke up well before Zachie boy,  but it was fine I just knitted a scarf out in the sun shine watching the Guinea pigs play outside.  He got up and his sisters came over and we all hung out and ate a good meal.  On Friday morning they all got up and went to hike somewhere, where I met my friend Good Friend Patrice for some coffee.  Then Patrice and I went to her brothers packed a lunch and then we went Hiking in the Catalina State Park.  It was a very good time I miss my adventures with Patrice that we used to have back in the days of her living up here.  That evening I drove to meet the Casavants in Benson for a good Cheeseburger.  Then we went Kartchner caverns and camp in an RV.  Saturday morning was spent touring the cave which was pretty sweet.  This cave is very well preserved as far as the bigger touring caves I have been in.   After the tour and some lunch we drove down to Bisbee.  Bisbee is an old mining town on the Mexico Boarder.  We left Zach's parents at the hotel and went to check the town out.  Very pretty old town, reminds me of a bigger version of Jerome.   We were all excited about eating dinner in this one really good Mexican restaurant, however they were to busy and could seat the size of our groups. So we ended up eating some good pizza.  Then we all ended up at this one little bar, playing pool, shuffle board and singing some Karaoke.   Zach and I ended up going on an adventure so he could find some cheese.  We ended up taking stairs to the top of a hill, the sky was Beautiful.  We finally did find a gas station and created a line of customers for the cashier who spazed on my ID.  ( got  a new one today and i look like a ghost).  Though I told him its cool we just won't get the beer but he spazed anyways.  Sunday morning we went on a Tour of the old Queen mine.  It was pretty fun to ride on the little train that went down into the mine.  After wards we took a drive through some pretty country back to Tucson.  Then we loaded up the guinea pigs and headed to Phoenix where we stopped in Tempe to get dinner with Chris.  Then on wards to the snow storm in Flagstaff or so we were told it would be storming.  But when we arrived the storm was over, roads were covered in snow and ice but we were fine.   Due to the trip to Tucson, my guinea pig now lives with me cause he couldn't not fight with Marbles in the car.   And Zach went to Cali to see Sarah and we had to take her guinea pigs with him.   But it's cool I like having him here with me.  However next week I head to Cali for work so he will going back to Zach's with the others.  Now I wait for Italy!!!!