Today was so busy and SO much fun. Work went fine until about 2pm and then it became GREAT! We all went over to F1 Raceway to do some kart racing. I have needed to get out some serious speeding tendencies for a long time and so I was flying around that track. And our team did pretty well also, taking third place. I had almost forgotten how much I love kart racing. OK, boys, LET'S GO RACING!
After racing, Gaye picked me up from the race track and we went to Scottsdale. One of our favorite places to eat is Grimaldi's Pizza so we hit up that place next.
Then it was off to the Poison Pen, a book store that specializes in mysteries, does some publishing and brings in authors quite often to speak. The speaker tonight was Jeffrey Deaver. He was so interesting to listen to. He spoke about how he gets ready to write a book and some of the things that he does to create characters for a story. He told us that he has been commissioned by the Bond Estate to write the next James Bond book that is due out in June. He read us a portion of his new book and it sounded so interesting that I was ready to buy it. It was a good thing that we already did. :)
When he was done speaking he took some time to sign books. The line seemed to be going a bit on the slow side but we found out when we got near the front of the line, that he was being very personal with each person and even signed the book that we were getting for someone in the family as a gift, with a personal message for them. What a really nice guy he is. Unfortunately, there are many who are not all that friendly and fewer still that are genuinely nice people you would want to know better. Mr. Deaver is definitely one of those.
While we were at the book store, Jennie called to tell us that Bahama Bucks was giving away free 16 oz drinks until 10pm. So we headed that way since it wasn't too far out of our way home and we were both ready for a drink.
Before we even got in the door we could see that this was NOT going to be a fast trip. The parking lot was full, there were cars backed up from the drive-thru quite a ways and . . .
There were people lined up around the store until there was hardly room to enter. It took us about 45 minutes to get out drinks but what a time we had people-watching. Most were young kids in high school or college. There were only a few adults and a couple of younger children. But it was already after nine on a school night when we got there. Gaye saw a lady that she used to work with and spent some time talking to her, so she "won".
We finally got our drinks and they were
wonderful. It was well worth the line time for the fun and the drink.
It was after 10 pm when we finally got home and I still had to run a job for work. Midnight - here I come! Another short night on the way. Guess I'll have to sleep fast.
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