"in the land of hot dirt"

we have decided that the state motto for Arizona should be “Arizona... the land of hot dirt.”

what do you think? catchy huh?

anyway... we’re here in Havasu for a couple of days. i’m doing the annual Service Team Leadership Retreat up here next week and wanted to come up here and get things ready. (also, i wanted to play on the sweet new Sea-Doos.)

this morning, i was hungry and wanted an Uncrustable sandwich. i didn’t, however, want to wait 20-30 minutes for the thing to defrost. fortunately, when it’s 110 degrees outside, 3 minutes on the driveway will do it!

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we had to apply the identification numbers to the Sea Doos before we could take them out. Alex did the ones in the first picture and i did the ones in the second. i think mine look better, but he disagrees.

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it may be hot dirt... but it is beautiful hot dirt sometimes.

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tonight, we went to Mudsharks for dinner and then discovered something new in Havasu. a few months ago, the WalMart here shut down. now, i hate WalMart. i hate it with a passion. it’s trashy and dirty and.... i just don’t like it. anyway, when the WalMart shut down it was because they were opening a WalMart SuperCenter down the road. tonight, we dropped by and i was a little surprised to find that it’s freaking amazing!!! of course, it’s brand new and a year from now it will probably be crap, but this place is nice and huge and has everything.

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while we were at WalMart... i found that someone figured out how to bottle me!

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