Hello all from sunny Arizona once again! Just got in last night from my spring break being home for about 5 days! It was a fantastic and much needed break. I took a red eye last Tuesday night into Boston and took the Concord bus up to Portland on Wednesday morning. I got to see a bunch of family and friends while I was home and that was much needed. It's so funny the things you don't appreciate until they are taken away from you. The ocean was one of those things for me. Last time I was home for Christmas I didn't see the ocean except once the very last day I was there on a crappy rainy day I went to Spring Point for a walk, but it wasn't the same. This time I made sure almost everyday to at least stop somewhere to peak at it for a minute. I was able to go to all of the typical spots, Bug Light, Spring Point, Willard Beach and Portland Headlight. I was able to take a nice long walk along Willard Beach to Spring Point, down to the lighthouse and watched the sunset. Although I was freezing my butt off it was so worth it. But being here in Arizona surrounded by nothing but desert....it makes me really appreciate where I grew up and that for 20 some years I grew up less than a mile away from the ocean.
So I'm pretty sure I accomplished most of what I intended while I was home. Saw most of the people I wanted to see, ate most of the food I wanted to eat, and definitely got the relaxation I was in need of (and alone time). My goals for food were to get a chipper from Red's (got 2 while I was home), pazzo and Italian from Amatos (was there 3 times while I was home), eat Thai food (there is litereally none in this city unless you make your own), eat some delicious Otto pizza (was able to introduce my mom to the best pizza in Portland), drink Margaritas and have some delicious food (with two of my best friends, you can't go wrong)...and last but not least eat some darn lobstah! I'm usually not a big seafood/lobster person but once again when you are away from something (yes they have them here, but there's no way they are even close to Maine lobsters) you crave it and want it pretty bad. So for Easter dinner we had some lobsters, potato salad and corn on the cob, just a little taste of summer...it was delicious. So it's kind of silly a lot of my main goals involved food, but I didn't cook a single thing at my house while I was home.
So I originally had a flight scheduled for Monday morning to leave Portland at 6am (barf) and from there I would have had 2 layovers before getting back to Phoenix (double barf) but on Sunday night at 10pm I got a call telling me that my Portland flight was cancelled. At first she told me they had me rescheduled for a flight on Tuesday (the day I had to be back to work) and I was like...mmmmm nope. So she asked if there was anyway I could fly out of Boston and that it would be a direct flight on Monday, it left at 4:30pm and got into Phoenix at 7:15pm, luckily my ride was originally planning on picking 3 of us up at Phoenix at 6pm so I was able to have them hold off, and I get this direct flight rather than stopping 2 places along the way! Also I was able to sleep in instead of waking up at 4am! So all things considered it was a fantastic change for me! Other than having to get down to Boston, but what's another $30 in the long run??
So I made it back here right on time, got back to my housing, was happy in some ways but dreading it in others. But we only have less than 2 weeks left here. Including today we have 6 work days left! Crazy! We work on Saturday for another community build and then have Sunday and Monday off and then we're outta here Friday and get back to Denver on Saturday! We hopefully (if it gets approved) will leave Saturday afternoon to head up to Phonix for the night, explore Saturday and go to a Diamondbacks game on Sunday! That should be a fantastic time! And Monday we plan to go to the Casa Grande Ruins, and make some tyedye tshirts!
Oh! On my bus ride up from Boston to Portland last Wednesday I got a call from my Team Leader because it was the day we were to find out our final projects! It turns out we got my last pick....I think quite literally my last pick of 21 projects....for 3 weeks we will go to Houston and be working on roofs of houses that need repairing from hurricanes and such. Then after that we take the long trek to good ole Big Bend National Park...now if you don't know where that is, take a looks-e-poo on a map...middle of nowhere on the mexican border Texas. We will be camping in tents...with no cell phone reception...no internet...and who knows what the showering situation is like...but in the end I think this is exactly what I need. A little kick in the butt and push my boundaries. There we will be doign general trailwork, species removal, just general park chores I suppose, I don't really know to be quite honest! BUT I will indeed have an address for anyone and everyone to send me anything and everything their hearts desire. Will accept anything while I am stuck in the middle of nowhere!!!!!!
Well first day back today, we have a meeting with the City staff so we have a late start, but I've gotta go get to it! Wish me luck, it's going to be 88 degrees today, but by Thursday it'll be about 100....yes I am semi-complaining about the hot weather...I'm spoiled, sorry.
Byeeeeeeeeee!
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