Visit from Family (10/11)

We had our first visitors today. My grandpa Jantzen and his wife, LaVona, came to visit. They live in Oklahoma. They traveled through the panhandle on Monday, stayed overnight in Guymon. They continued onto Taos and stayed overnight there. They went browsing at the art galleries there. Then, on Thursday they left to come see us. They traveled over the Royal Gorge Bridge. Grandpa had been there before, but he was impressed once again with the canyon that is just there in the middle of flat land. I have not been there yet. They arrived about 3:45pm in Alamosa. Jeremy and I met them around 4:15pm. We chatted for awhile, then took them to La Jara to see the house and main street. We returned to Alamosa to see our workplaces. Grandpa said it was nice to see where we were at, so he could picture us here. We went out to eat at Calvillo's. (I think that is how you spell it.) It is a highly recommended Mexican restaurant here in town. It has a gigantic buffet that is delicious. Not only do they have lots of traditional Mexican entrees, but a salsa and taco bar, a salad bar, and a fruit and dessert bar. De-licious!!! We were all suitably stuffed when we left. We went back to their hotel room and talked til about 9:45pm. They are night owls!! Jeremy and I made it home by about 10:15 or so. We packed our gym clothes, so we could make it to the gym Friday morning by 6:30am.


At work today, I threw out 4 shopping carts of cheesy or damaged picture frames. Then I finished the project that I had started yesterday. The area, although it still has a lot of trinkets, sure looks much better. I put all the picture frames out on display that could stand. The rest of them I put in crates and set out below. I would have taken a picture, but as always, I forgot to take the "before" picture, so the "after" picture wouldn't have much impact. As I dumped frames into the dumpster, a lady kept trying to take them out of my cart or the dumpster. She said, "Let me look through these first." I said, "Ma'am, I have a job I need to get finished. These frames have been sitting inside the store forever, and there are still more in there. You can go in to purchase some." I am not sure if that was very nice, but I thought it was rude that she would dumpster dive while the store was open. Anyway.



Jeremy worked on his website today. I think that he is pleased with how it is coming along. It is not yet published/posted, so I have yet to see it. We'll let you know when it is up and running, and you can see his work. Take care.