Saturday - here in the park

A nice day, sun was out and the wind was down. I got up early and went for bacon, eggs, pancakes in the rec hall this AM. A great way to start the day and only $3. Got a bit of a hard time from some of the kitchen staff, guys that I play pool with. Next week will be our turn & an even earlier start to the day. Oh well, it will be our last one for this winter. After we went out to Trader Joe's. It's a food market and they have a lot of unique things. I had not been there before and we actually had to use the gps unit to find it. Marg picked us a few things, some of which will be going home with us. Lots of organic stuff, they even pack in the old brown paper bags, no plastic bags. After that we went to AJ's the other boutiquish grocery store. We actually went to get one of their meat pies, but they were sold out. They also have a lot of unique [for here] stuff from other countries. Just some examples are: haggis in a can, HP sauce, clotted cream from Cornwall. There are lots of Italian things including a great selection of pasta. The deli is loaded with great dishes and the bakery is almost an art work. The liquor section has a huge wine area & they have a half dozen Irish whiskey selections as well as a pretty good selection of scotch. There are no deals on scotch here, I think Glenmorangie is about $70/bottle and Laphroaig is about that as well. It's definitely not the cheap place to shop, but the quality more than makes up for it. In the seafood section they had halibut [$29/pound], salmon, tuna, etc. We got back for lunch and then I played some pool. Marg went to the pool where she said the water was gorgeous. I still have not made it in to the swimming pool this winter, must put that on my to-do list. The park had in a musical pair to audition & we went to hear them. They were pretty good, but real old time country music. Sounds like they will be playing at the ice cream social tomorrow night. It will be a lot like the group we had when Bill & Patti were here. Had cocktails at Hanner's tonight. They are leaving on Wednesday for California. They are taking a cruise from there and then on home to Branson, Mi. Talking to them it seems the tornado struck about 2 or 3 blocks from their home, but they don't believe they had damage from it. Lots of people here from the areas struck by the tornados this week: Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, but they did not seem to have anyone among those hurt or killed. BBQ for supper and that was about it. Krupka's have arrived in Mesa as we got a call from Rose this evening and will be getting together with them on Thursday. Should be fun.