Thursday was a day my Mom and I decided to spend together. We had an absolute adventure! We left my house at 7:30 am for Tucson. Patti's birthday is (April 12) today and mine was in March...so we were going to lunch to celebrate. Plus...it gave us the chance to SEE for ourselves how Kevin is doing. He was suppose to go back to work on Thursday, but he has this really bad foot wound from no circulation during his "heart episode/hospital stay". Dr. Whittaker did some surgery on it...so he hopes it heals! (Pun there!) Anyway...Kevin is still alive, put in a lot of pain.
Patti and Mom and I went to Macayo's for lunch. That is one of my favorite lunch spots in all of Tucson...they have a terrific chef! Food and service was great. We got back into my car (remember Wednesday with the flat tire?) and drove about 10 feet...it was acting weird. So I pulled over, got out, and the SAME TIRE WAS FLAT!!!!! Now either Costco didn't fix it right, or it was a NEW problem!
Well, I got the spare tire out (donut) and mom finally got the jack out. Patti starts jacking up the car. I am looking around for another Angel Man to show up. Ah ha! There he is. About 6'2" , big, sporting a Pink shirt and tie, with fancy shoes! He looks at me from across the 20 feet or so and spreads out his hands (like do you need help? action) and I yell..."Hi there, Yes, could you help us? He immediately comes over and proceeds to give us directions on how to change this tire! Now....you don't tell Gibb girls how to do this! Our dad made us learn how to change the tire on every car we owned BEFORE we could drive it! We were actually doing fine...but I wasn't going to let an Angel do his charitable service! He proceeded to explain what a tire iron is used for, "righty tighty" "lefty lucy"...I wanted to GAG! He was so full of himself. Patti is still jacking up the car and ignoring him! I finally said, "Sir, we know how to do this, we just need your muscles to undo the bolts. Could you do that for us?" (In my sweet voice). Man he huffed and puffed like the Big Bad Wolf in Three Little Pigs. He had to work! We finally got the tire changed. We thanked him and he was still trying to tell us how to do it.
Mom and I dropped Patti off at the house and we headed to the Tucson Costco to see about the tire. Well, the tire was damaged. We needed a new one. They could get us in at 4:00 pm. It was now 1:00 pm. So we left.
Mom and I drove to Chandler Costco with the donut traveling 61 mph. I was praying we wouldn't be rear-ended like Lappalainen's were years ago! We only had one truck honk at us for going slow. Mom says to me, "Wow, the scenery sure looks different. I don't remember seeing all this. Curtis would call me periodically to see where we were. We were never close to anything! Coming up on Red Rock, approaching Casa Grande, the rest stop, etc.... Finally we get to Chandler Costco (Loop 202 & 101) at 4:00 pm. They are the sweetest guys. We get a new tire and leave by 5:15 pm.
We then went shopping at the Distribution Center by the Temple, Seagull Book, and over to the Easter Pagaent. We find great parking 1 block away. We find 2 seats in the middle section on the 4th row! Dead Center! Wow! We are being blessed in spite of our adventures! We visited all day and evening.
What a great performance of the Easter Pageant. They had made some changes, new narration (I recognized the voice!) and re-adjustment of scenes. Was great. We made it home at 9:45 pm just as Curtis was pulling in from his Bishop Training meeting. Long day. We were safe, had adventures to laugh about, and enjoyed each other!
