3rd Post of the Morning

Due to the stubbornness of the weak Internet in the house, I have not been able to post some days so today I am catching up and posting three times.
After having my pedicure, we got Harvey a phone as his phone could not be programmed for the states so it was left at home. I did not like him not having a phone on him when we were separated and someone said get one at Walmart. It cost $9.88, plus a $20 card that gives him 130 mins or 150 days.
It will not be used much but if it is he can just buy another card. They program in a number for you and BAM he has a phone. We learn from experience and with the poor reception I get on my iPhone, I am not sure that the next time, we would not just get 2 of these phones and the line phone (45 a month) and scrap the iPhone North American Plan that costs $95 a month where data is of no use when out of WiFi area and phone reception is simply awful.

Next we headed east to Desert Gardens near Florence where Art and Carol Berg are staying. We took a tour of their park and all the elegant facilities and then headed out for an afternoon of driving and seeing areas we had not seen. We headed up an Arizona mountain to the Ray copper mine where we viewed them mining the copper way down in the valley. It was like watching dinky toys which were actually huge trucks and equipment. Very interesting to see how they had cut the hills in their mining.

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Art then thought he would show how we can get to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport that he did not know existed. After trying to find the airport on his GPS (which obviously did not know the airport existed as well), for some time, I remembered I had the address with me. So he imput the info and off we went. After  many different freeways and more freeways (it seemed to us) we found the airport. At this point it was heard from my mouth or Harveys...."Maybe Vel could taxi to our house....or maybe she could walk....or maybe she could fly to the little sky diving airport near us.." Harvey and I were very confused as we had never driven in the huge area of Mesa and all the cities that seem to all blend in. A great mall was very near the airport and as we were hungry we thought we would go eat. I saw a place called "Sweet Tomatoes". I had read about it but could not remember what it was , but thought we would give it a try. It is a huge salad buffet with pretty well any thing you would want to put into a salad. You then could choose from 5 different kinds of soups and many topping for those. This was followed by diff breads, biscuits or corn muffins, baked potatoes (white and sweet) and all the toppings as well or two kids of pizza. Then desserts of apple crisp, different kinds of soft yogurt (which tasted more like ice cream) and hot choc or hcarmel sauces and lots more toppings. You could go back as many times as you wanted and all for $10.99.  We realized that it is a very healthy buffet with all most no fat or no sugar, no MSG, lots of whole wheat products etc and also NO MEAT.
It was very good though and would recommend if you see one.

It was dark when leaving and Art decided to program into the GPS the shortest way home and we flew back to their place as easy as pie and at that time we realized that we could get to the airport very easy going this way....so have no fear visitors...we will not leave you at the airport.

Back at the Bergs motor home, we had coffee and many laughs, triggered by the fact that I had left voice memo, on my phone, turned on , in my pocket, and had recorded our whole conversation for the last hour or more. Carol also told us about her "crafty" nature and how she could create just about any thing from a cut off milk carton, even while the vehicle is driving along the interstates. A fun day in all.