We’re having a great time in Chandler, Arizona. We arrived on Monday afternoon and haven’t stopped playing since. Yesterday was Nina’s birthday (for one day of the year we’re the same age). Colten, the Food Network fanatic, planned the dinner (creamy chicken on pastry shells) and made the fairly complicated seasoning rub for the chicken. The net result was that I ate way too much.

The agenda today included going to the movie theater to watch Horton Hears A Who. It was a funny, delightful movie and worth taking the kids. After that Austin, Jackson, Nina, and I went to a nearby park to fly the remote controlled airplane. After a couple of pretty good flights, I think I lost the airplane in a tree. I couldn’t find it up in the tree, but the plane never came out from behind the tree…. So that’s the end of the flying for this trip!

Colten also planned tonight’s meal and was working very hard on slicing potatoes for french fries when he knicked off a piece of his finger! He survived in great shape and is sporting a big bandage. No doctor or hospital visit required, fortunately. Scott arrived back from the San Francisco Bay area in time to grill the hot dogs and hamburgers. Another great meal where I again ate far too much. I’m definitely being well fed here in Arizona. It must be part of some big plot!

So, after dinner we had cake and ice cream and celebrated another birthday. I’ve now officially left my sixty-second year behind and have a good start on the sixty-third year. I’m also once again a whole year older than Nina. Despite that, life is good.