Anyway: Spent the last couple of days taking a mini-vacation to Scottsdale with Stephanie. On Friday, we checked in to the hotel, then went to dinner, then went to a drive-in movie theatre. Stephanie had never been to a drive-in. So we went, and saw “I am Number Four”. This was an OK bildungsroman, with aliens, but since so many of the scenes in it were dark, it was difficult to see what was going on during those scenes. Ah well.

Saturday, we were going to go hiking. Then we looked at the weather forecast (rain! all day!) and decided to go on a different sort of hiking—urban hiking, about a mile down to Fashion Square. The Borders store there was going out of business, so we browsed through there for a while and found some stuff for about 20% off. Then we got lunch and looked around some other stores. Walking back to the hotel was a little more annoying, since it had started raining for real while we were shopping. But we made it back OK, despite high winds and slippery sidewalks. And we went out to the Melting Pot for dinner. That was a little pricy, but totally worth it, since the food was good. Went back, and attempted to watch a DVD with my laptop, but couldn’t for a while, since I’d forgotten to enable the a52 USE flag for xine-lib. sigh.

Sunday, we really didn’t do that much. We both needed to get home and see about the cats. And neither of us have to work on Monday (yay!) so that’s all good. Long weekends are totally excellent. . . .