You cannot believe how quiet this complex is. its like the world has ended and bill and i are the only survivors besides the gamblers on the strip.
everything is new in this place and gleamingly clean. The refrigerator is a side by side which has tons of room. The stove is gas and therefore NOT a ceramic stove top which we came to detest with much passion by the time we moved out of our rental house in Tucson. The beds are all queen; 2 in one bedroom and 1 in the other; 2 bathrooms.
Here's one of the things i love about this journey. I do my usual bathroom and kitchen cleaning but i have the freedom to sleep in another bed on fresh sheets instead of washing the sheets on bed #1 and putting them back on. The foam top mattress is set deep inside this heavy dark frame making pinched fingers and sore wrists a given to make up the bed. Love the cleaning fees; totally worth every penny.
This condo has lots of bowls but not many sauce pans and only 1 frying pan that is barely 9 inches in diameter so cooking is always a challenge and an opportunity to practice my goal of flexibility with humor and gentleness. Our dinner of a salad, potatoes and sloppy joe's was a multi hour project given the stages we had to go through due to the kitchen equipment.
Another thing that has happened (oh, i hate all this techno stuff. the latest is that yesterday morning and this morning; i hear this rapid beep that lasts about a minute and i haven't been able to locate it except for recently; its an alarm clock set on OFF ?? which for some reason began alarming after we had been here a week.) we have no wireless connection to our 21 inch computer; had to buy a long long ethernet cable and the cell phone connection is horrid; dropped calls and static and lost words.
and speaking of lost, we can't find our a t & t calling card which had over 900 minutes on it.
the only thing to do in the midst of this electronic chaos is to hike which we are doing today; to the Valley of Fire state park.
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