April 10, 2006

The Highlights

I have (finally) returned from my annual pilgrimage to Phoenix. The highlights:

• Best mode of transportation to Phoenix from southeast Louisiana? By car, naturally. Of course I had plane tickets, and naturally, I chickened out and didn't use them. I was actually feeling pretty good about the whole flying thing. I was planning to drive to Dallas, meet up with mom and fly to Phoenix. This might've actually worked, had there not been a freak hailstorm combined wth 60 mph winds and driving rain on the day we were scheduled to leave. Why do these things always happen to me? The next time I try to fly somewhere, I will not be surprised if a plague of locusts descends upon my chosen departure city.
• Best way to pass the time while sitting in the car for 17 hours each way (from Dallas to Phoenix, that is)? XM Satellite Radio. Not only was it great to have about 10 million channels of uninterrupted music to choose from, but I could also listen to the Weather Channel, CNN, the BBC and E! for hours upon hours of True Hollywood Story. Although it might've pushed my brain toward total atrophy, after 10 hours in the car, I was close to that, anyway.
• Least fun thing to drive through that you normally don't encounter when your typical drive takes you through Louisiana? A dust storm! I kid you not. Fortunately, it wasn't bad, I just wasn't expecting it. Those crazy unpredictable deserts! When I told Archi-Sapper about it, he got all excited and said, "Oh, I know! We drove through these awful dust storms in Iraq and we would be totally blinded, and then...." at which point I wanted to say, "Uh, hon? When it comes to "stuff I've lived through" stories? You totally win."
• Best thing about Phoenix? The weather, the mountains, the gorgeous dry climate, the restaurants, the fabulous resorts where I stayed.....um, pretty much all of it.
• Coolest Thing I Did While There? I moderated a panel discussion regarding legal ethics for lawyers in my field. Despite the fact that I had been planning this, along with my fabulous panelists, for the past 10 months, I was nervous. I needn't have worried, though. The panel was a huge hit and I even told a mildly humorous story during the presentation which got a lot of laughs.
• Two Things I Did Most Often in Phoenix? Drank my body weight in bottled water and applied copious amounts of Carmex lip balm. As soon as we got to Arizona, I swear I no longer had any moisture in my body.

Posted by Kitty at April 10, 2006 07:14 PM

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