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It’s hot in Yuma…

Posted September 8, 2011 By admin and has no comments yet.

Apologies for the delay in the update as we have been quite busy of late, and when we are not, Jess is too tired to update.

Neal has been keeping busy with his class load. He is taking a significantly higher number of hours this time around in order to finish up his degree a little sooner. Jess has accepted her 2012 graduation date from her MBA program with bitter sweetness. She is frustrated she cannot get it done sooner, but also enjoys having time to do other things, such as update the blog!

Unfortunately, we haven’t gotten to see much of each other as Jess is now working 55 hours plus on the weekend schedule. So, the times we are both home are rare and often filled with conversations about house maintenance, bills, etc. Once October comes, though, we will be back on relatively the same schedule and have weekends off together.

The last weekend Jess had off we traveled to San Diego. There we enjoyed Stone’s 15th Anniversary Brewery festival. We got to try beers from all around the U.S.! It was pretty fantastic. Afterwards we headed to the San Diego Zoo for a short jet around. Finally, we finished the fantastic weekend on Sunday with a snorkeling trip on La Jolla beach. Cold but quite enjoyable! Sometime soon we would like to get scuba certified…perhaps we will see.

Neal has been enjoying ultimate Frisbee with a ‘club’ team of Friday nights. Jess has joined a Young Professionals group known as NexGen with her first event occurring this Friday. The two of us also joined a triathlon club for beginners where we will train with a group and be taught the very basics of transferring between swimming/running/biking as well as improving your techniques in all 3 areas . We are definitely trying to keep busy and branch out.

Our most exciting news is our Disney Cruise in October!! We are traveling to Mexico this time around. With all of Jess’s Disney Points from her Nemo card, we basically get our excursions for free. It pays to Nemo! The countdown is 31 days, 5 minutes.

Let us know what’s going on in your world, or if you even read this!! Hope all is well…

Ready for October…Jess and Neal

Categories: Breweries, Relationship, Social, Travel

Phoenix By Day…

Posted July 17, 2011 By admin and has no comments yet.

This weekend we had planned to spend a nice, happy, relaxing weekend working on the house and sticking around Yuma. However, you know what they say about best laid plans!

The midnight showing of Harry Potter was amazing, although Jess felt that it did not truly convey the true gut-wrenching emotion of the last book and was disappointed in the ‘lack’ of portrayed relationship between Harry and Ginny. However, still well done overall! The late night show Friday morning caused significant exhaustion Friday evening, and the two of us went to bed at 7 p.m. and didn’t wake up until 7 a.m. this morning. Much needed rest it seems!

The trip to Phoenix today was in order to take a lovely baby who was surrendered to our clinic to a rescue in hopes that he will find a forever home. The veterinary profession truly has to be one of the most emotionally exhausting, under appreciated, under paid professions in the history of man. Yet, there are those occasional good deeds and moments that make it all worth while. Well, mostly worthwhile anyway.

After delivering our boy to his new temporary location, we headed out to the Phoenix Zoo since Neal had never been. SADLY, living in the desert, we forget many things close early during the day, such as the zoo. We arrived at 1:30 to realize it closed at 2 p.m. Of course, they didn’t give discounts for shorter days! So instead, we headed to the Desert Botanical Gardens in the nearby area.

The gardens were ‘beautiful and hot’ per Neal, and we enjoyed many cute little ground squirrel and quail to make up for no zoo. Definitely something we would suggest!!! We also took a potted little Saguaro home for our very own to have forever! So we will eventually have a pronghorn cape from WY and a saguaro from AZ, some of our favorite things about our locations! Maybe we have to move to Alaska for a moose!

Finally we landed upon one of Jess’s all time FAVORITE breweries, Four Peaks. This is named after a mountian ridge near Phoenix. There isn’t a beer to dislike in the whole bunch! Everything is amazing. Their peach, 8th Street, Kilt Lifter, and Hefeweizen…all amazing. So good we got a growler of the Hefeweizen, which by the way has to be drunk in 72 hours. Anyone coming to visit?!