SPONTANEOUS ROAD TRIP

Before we had Nate, we were notorious for spontaneous road trips. Some days, we'd wake up, look at each other and say.."hey, wanna go to Phoenix?..or Pinetop?..or Mexico??!! One day, when we lived in SoCal, we decided to drive as far north as we possibly could and back in one day. We went from L.A. to San Luis Obispo (almost as far as Monterey) and stopped at few sight-seeing spots along the way. San Luis was beautiful along the coast.

Yesterday, we took a road trip up to Phoenix to run a few errands and stopped to visit our long-time friends, The Jones'. I've known Jason (the hubby) since I was 10 and Don and I went to college with him. We met his wife, Mary when they were dating and Don actually performed their wedding ceremony. We've also seen them through 3 kids during our friendship. They are just as spontaneous as we are and no matter how jam packed their schedules are, they still look forward to seeing us. So, during our short stay, they had their basement under renovation, the plumber installing a new toilet, their kids to pick up from school and a date night to arrange. On top of that, they still made time to challenge us to a few rounds of Guitar Hero and some war game that the guys played. They were the type of friends that we could call up on the fly and say "Hey do you feel like a movie?" and in 30 minutes, we were at the theater together. The photos above are in their backyard.

On our way home, we stopped for dinner at a long time tradition in our family, Los Compadres Mexican food. It's a little hole in the wall that my family has been going to since 1977 when I was 9 years old. We treated Nate to their "Baby Plate"...which was more than enough for an adult and he scarfed it all down. My brother lives in Ohio and every time he came back to Phoenix to visit, this was the only restaurant he'd eat at. In my opinion, Arizona has the most awesome Mexican food...next to Mexico, that is.