Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Oro Valley, AZ to Glendale, AZ (to have the hydraulic levelers on our MH fixed)


We drove back up to the Phoenix area on Sunday, May 1st so we could drop off our motorhome and have the levelers repaired.  Two of them were refusing to retract whenever we were ready to move on to a new campground and I was getting exasperated with having to get down on the ground and pry them up!  While they worked on the motorhome we did a bunch of errands around the area, had ice coffee and tea at Starbucks and lunch at a very cute restaurant called Mimi's Café.  It turns out they are a chain but unfortunately they don't yet have a presence in the Northwest.  It's a French inspired theme with a really nice menu.  If you are traveling and happen to see one, stop in and have a bite to eat.

That morning Laura had an appointment with "the world's tallest Chiropractor," Dr. Torsten Stein.  At 7'2" I think you can see that he towered over Laura.

This selfie looks Laura look like a midget!

We also visited Cerreta's candy factory in Glendale for a "factory tour."  We love doing factory tours and seeing how things are made.  And you never know - sometimes you get free samples!

Founder and owner, Mr. Cerreta himself!

The caramel making section.  Yum!

Pretzels heading in to be covered with white chocolate!
Why is white chocolate called chocolate?  It doesn't even taste like chocolate.
Things are either chocolate or they aren't and white chocolate isn't!

At the end of the afternoon, the news on the motorhome was they had to order parts which would take about a week to come in.  Sigh!  We needed to hang about for a week to ten days but it was too hot in Phoenix to make us want to stay there.  We decided to go back to Oro Valley and continue to help my mom.

The next day we met a high school friend of mine who now lives in Scottsdale.  We saw her last on our 2003 trip back to Michigan when she then lived in Travers City.  We spent a nice day chatting and reminiscing at her condo and had lunch at another Mimi's!  Yea!  Pat is now grandmother to 4 grandchildren and it's a role she clearly loves.  Nothing like spoiling the grandchildren.


Pat Janis - my friend from Grosse Ile High

Star Date: May 1-3, 2016