The staycation.

So much to my dismay, I have to go back to work tomorrow. I have to say, this was a great staycation, as my husband keeps calling it.
Dinner was wonderful on Saturday with my in-laws. I had the baked ziti, which I had never had before. Amazing! My in-laws loved Pestos. Said they will eat there again when they come back next fall. They will be going back to White Bear, MN at the end of April. We'll miss them loads. But will get to see them this summer, as we have plans to visit them and my sister-in-law and her husband, before Coach has to go to football camp and practice starts.
Earlier in the day we went to the movies. We went to see "This Means War". Very funny even coach liked it. Funny though, I think we were the only two people laughing out loud.
On Sunday we went on our Hot Air Balloon ride. The whole ride out there I kept thinking that I should be scared. But I wasn't, it took a while for us to get going. It's been kinda windy around here, so we had to wait for a while. I think it was about eight when we watched the balloons being filled with hot air. Hopped (not gracefully) into the basket. And still no fear. I didn't even realize that we were going up. It's so smooth and quite. No bouncing or jaring movement at all. There were seven of us in our balloon. One being the piliot. He was a hoot! Very nice man. There was a young couple (med students) here from Nebraska. They were celebrating her birthday and have only been married for three months. While the husbands were helping roll up the balloon, she asked if we had any tips on marriage. Myself and the other lady with us asked "does he make you laugh?"  She said yes and I said there you go. The other couple was from Canada, here for the week, their first visit to Arizona. We gave them directions to the Mesa Swap Mart. Coach didn't understand why they would want to go to a swapmart of all places. I said that I would go to flea market's, thrift shops if I had the chance. I'm always looking for things I could use to craft with or fabric to make something with. He shook his head understanding then.
So after that I said we should go to the Coffee Shop to eat. The owner was on Cupcake Wars and won! After coffee and a egg and potatoe burrito. We were both ready for a shower and clean clothes. Boy! do you get dusty landing in a balloon in an hay field. I was disapointed that she didn't have any woopie pies on Sunday. She makes the best strawberry woopie pies you've ever had! Stop by if you get the chance.
So I'm sure Jet (our boxer) didn't understand why all weekend we kept coming and going. But he figured out that because of it he ws getting extra treats. You know he was taking advantage of that.
Showered and clean clothes on, we made our way to Scottsdale. They had their art festival going on this past weekend. Sooo many pretty thing's. We picked up a few business card's up of artist's we like. When the time's right, i'm sure we'll be making some phone calls to aquire some new art for the house. I'm going to end here for the night. Need to get ready for work. I'll see you tomorrow.