Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Overcast and Warm and We Fly to Scottsdale


Marlena





Nick at Play
Well, I am up at 5:30, not because I want to be up.  I was awake around 5:00, and then Nick jumped in the shower at 5:30 so I decided to get up.  He has early soccer practice twice a week, at 6:00 in the high school gym.  He’s a busy boy.  Anyways, the Internet is down, so I have had to sit here in the living room, like the old days, watching Morning Joe with out an Internet to surf.  I feel like it’s in the 1990’s!  So I decided to write my blog on a Word, then transfer it to my on line blog when we get back on line.

Nick and Marlena played hooky yesterday, so we decided to drive down to the Country Club Plaza, the posh, chic, shopping area about a twenty-minute ride from home.  We love going there, just walking around, enjoying the Spanish or Mexican architecture.  It has just about any upscale store you can imagine and our first stop was the Apple Store, as the kids as well as adults love it.  One of the ‘geniuses’ answered Evie’s question about transferring videos from her IPAD to an external hard drive.  Easy once we realized her charger had a port built in.  Miraculously, we did not buy anything though the new mini IPAD always tempts Evie.  We then went to Williams Sonoma, looking for Mama O’s Kim chee paste but the advisers new nothing about it.  I told him about it and he found that it was only available on line.  Kitchen store have so many gadgets that it’s hard not to buy one although a simple knife could cut an apple as easily as an apple slicer, or an avocado slicer.  And nothing seems cheap anymore except me.  We then browsed for cargo shorts for Nick, at Urban Outfitters (to hip), Eddie Bauer (too preppy), American Eagle (about right).  Kids!
 
At The Plaza with Poseidon
We also stopped at Sur La Table, where Evie found a clear glass Duralex mixing bowl for making bread and sure also found the juice size Duralex glasses which we are missing.  We loved Duralex when we lived in Turkey.  About two years ago, we found them again at Costco, bought three different sizes and heard they were going out of business.  It looks like they are back as the store had many styles.
 
Diner Counter

Enjoying a Milk Shake

For lunch, we went to the seventy year old drive in and diner here in Kansas City called Winsteads.  It’s on edge of the Plaza and looks like the old Howard Johnson’s both inside (leather booths, a long counter) and out, low and modern.  It was a nostalgic trip back in time, milk shakes, frosty’s, and slim, slim burgers, with the works (They reminded me of White Castle burgers), encouraging you to buy a double or triple.  Nothing was very expensive yet the bill with tip was still fifty bucks. 

We got home around 2:00, tired as always from shopping, especially Marlena.  She has been reading a biography of Anne Frank for school and she and Evie went upstairs to read but she fell asleep.  Tom came home around 5:30 and the three guys had a quick dinner of spaghetti and meatballs because Nick had a soccer game in Kansas, in Overland Park and he wanted to eat early. 

Mary decided to go with us, so Evie stayed up with a tired Marlena and we drove to Kansas for Nick’s game.  It was overcast and warm but fortunately, it did not rain.  Nick’s team looked good, won 3-1 and Nick just missed a goal in the second half, as the goalie just managed to jump and tip his shot over the goal.

We came home and watched the NCAA finals and had a light dinner of left over steak, mushrooms, and twice baked potatoes.  The game was really high intensity, but the athleticism of Louisville won out eventually.  It was a well played game, I thought, great plays, amazing shooting, not stop action up and down the court.  I wished Michigan had won but thought that Louisville probably had more horses and would win.  And they did.

Today, we leave for the airport at noon, fly to Scottsdale, arriving around 3:55, for ten days in the sun with Evie’s sister Claire and her husband, Henry. 


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