July 30, 2008
This darn dog woke me up again and wouldn’t go back to sleep. It happens every morning, but he usually goes back to sleep before 7am. Not this morning. Good thing I got the crate out last night- he had to stay in it while we continued to sleep until 10:30. We went to sleep before we finished watching 40-Year Old Virgin, so (staying on the couches) we finished the rest of the movie. It’s hilarious.
Abe came in as the movie wrapped up. (Justin was still in class.) I showered and we went to the local Tempe Petco for some doggie dog food. Mango was on the last of his big bag of Beneful, and he had torn an arm off of his Diddle-Dude. He has also been chewing on my fingers a lot lately, so I bought him this King Kong chew toy. It has a little hole in the middle of it for treats or peanut butter. I also got some more mini tennis balls since I keep leaving his other ones in homes around the country. I always have such a hard time in pet stores. I love them, but they’re just so distracting and so much is always going on. One side houses rodents, reptiles and birds, the other has the aquariums, the other has doggie beds.. The doggie toy isles are way too long and there are just way too many products. I feel like I just wander the isles without accomplishing anything in particular. Most of the time I’m way too indecisive to be productive.
The dollar store that we went to was intense. I got root beer, Mango got a little kid’s tank top that says “Lift Off” and has a little rocket ship and stars on it. I told myself I would never dress up my dog, but he’s too adorable and I couldn’t help it. Besides, he’s going to get freezing cold this Philadelphia winter. We also got a loofa for the shower and energy drinks for the road.
Abe took Bea, Mango and me back to Justin’s where we said hello to Justin and called up Lauren Kane. She’s also a Graphic Design major at Drexel and wanted to show us a great vegan restaurant in Tempe. We set out to meet Lauren and her girlfriend, but Bea discovered her bike (my bike polo bike) had a horribly bent chain ring. We figured that it was probably bent when backing up into another car from a parallel parking space somewhere in the south. Not good. Anyways, we walked to the nearest bike shop and bought another one. The guys at this bike shop were nice, but there were way too many cruisers for comfort. The place was real big, but most of the floor space was taken up with way too many large and (to me) impractical bicycles. I was like I was in the pet store- walking aimlessly around, picking up stuff and putting it down. I ended up buying a cute pink floral bell, a black water bottle cage, and a sweet teal bike hat. Love it. I also looked at the bike shorts that they had and realized I still need $200 for the MS150 City to Shore benefit bike ride I’m doing in the end of September.
The vegan restaurant that Lauren and Lexi took us to was great! It’s called Greeny (I think), and had a great menu. Too bad I wasn’t hungry. The crab cakes looked good, and the cheese steak sandwich also looked fantastic. I settled for a vegan Tsoynami. It’s a blend of yummy ingredients fashioned sort of like a flurry. I got the Soy Capitan: Vanilla ice cream, fruity Captain Crunch, and strawberries. It was delicious. We left and rode back to Justin’s house to drive to the airport to FLY!
Justin was in flight school and was going to ASU (Arizona State University) to be a pilot for commercial airlines, but realized that he was paying way too much for what it was worth. He switched to a Philosophy major a couple of months ago. On the way home from the airport we had a great philosophical conversation. That sounds so yuppy: “A great philosophical conversation.” Sorry. It was a good, thoughtful conversation. I feel like I should seriously think about minoring in philosophy. I love to think.
Anyways, flying is amazing! We went up in a high-winged four person plane. That’s simple speak, I suppose. We flew for a little over an hour, and oh- I should probably call ma to let her know I’m alive. We left right as the sun set and flew over most of Phoenix and the outlaying areas after the sun went down. The view from the plane was like we were flying over a sea of city lights. It was pretty amazing. Before the sun set we stalled and experienced zero gravity, on purpose. Scared the living #@$% out of me. I hate roller coasters because I hate the feeling of falling. Zero gravity is falling. I held a pen in my hand and when we did the nose dive it rose up in front of my face. So did my phone, my sunglasses, and both of my flip flops. Bea took a video of the whole ordeal, so check out my flickr for it. Everything is organized by city in the Road trip set of the 2008 collection, if you haven’t figured that out by now.
Now I’m home- Justin’s place. Family Guy just finished and Bea is sleeping on the couch next to me. Mango is lying peacefully on my left shoulder, and Justin is studying 17th and 18th century philosophers for his exam tomorrow morning. Mango was so excited to see me after I got back from flying with Justin. He went crazy, and it made me feel loved J
See ya, Arizona.
-S and M
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