by kenny

From Slab City, we headed to Phoenix. My grandma's health was not good, so my mom came from Scotland and Laura and I drove up to Cottonwood to spend a couple days with her. We played Scrabble. For possibly the first time ever I made a word with more than 4 letters, two turns in a row. It had to be photogged.

Gramma has moved in with Uncle Oscar and Aunt Debbie, and that seems to have helped. We had a good visit with the family and my mom, and decided to stay the afternoon to check out Montezuma's Castle, Montezuma's Well, and Tuzigoot National Monument. On our way there, we stopped at a store in old town Cottonwood. Someone who knew the family had noticed a brick with "Oscar & Lily, 12-6-74" written in it. Turns out that it was formerly the home of my grandparents' (Oscar & Lily Hernandez) furniture store. No one really knew about the brick, so we stopped to take a photo of it. The current store owner practically accosted me for some reason.

We went back to Phoenix, only to realize we didn't have my W2's from window cleaning for Bart. We had to go back to Cottonwood to get them, so we got to see Gramma again. Back in Phoenix, we spent a couple good days with the kids. I went with Xander to school as his "pet" on pet day, and we spent an afternoon in the park feeding ducks.

I made fun of my uncle Brett for calling sandwiches "Sammies", stating that nobody calls them that. But sure enough, Quiznos does. We discovered these when we stopped on our way back to Phoenix.

Next, on to Tucson.