Fun Day in Willcox
October 5, 2008
Yesterday being Saturday meant another day on the road for a football game. Sean’s game yesterday was in Willcox, AZ. Willcox is about 75 minutes away, so we planned make it most of a day trip to Willcox, which is another small rural town in SE Arizona and beloved home of deceased cowboy Rex Allen.
Willcox is also the location of Apple Annie’s orchard and vegetable farm. During football season, we usually make a trek out to Apple Annies after the football game and pick our own pumpkins for Halloween. We usually walk the farm too and pick our vegetables. If time permits, we also head over to their orchard and pick our own apples and pears. It makes for a fun day.
This year, however, the game coincided with Rex Allen Days festivities in Willcox, so our game was scheduled to be played at 3:00 pm. This kind of messed with our plans. So instead, we just made plans to go to the orchard, get some fruit and have some lunch. Apple Annie’s has a little shack they call the Burger Barn where the cook some nice burgers over apple wood. They are delicious. Plus, you get a slice of fresh home made pie and ice cream.
We got some apples (golden delicious, granny smith and fiji) and some pears (bartlett and asian). The burgers were delicious and the Apple Crumb Pie was heavenly. The weather was nearly perfect as the temperatures were only in the 70′s and the sun was hidden behind clouds – are rare treat this time of the year in Arizona.
As to the football, game it was a match up of win less teams in the league. Unfortunately, the result was the same as we lost 34 – 0. The game was never close. Sean played his best game of the year. He had many good tackles and forced the Willcox team to run the ball the other direction. On offense, he had the other team’s biggest kid – yes, outsized by at least 30 lbs – line up against him. Sean did a great job of keeping him out of the plays. The other kid was involved in maybe two tackles all day.
I think we have three games remaining this season. I don’t think we will win a game, but none the less will still have fun.
Sean’s Birthday Festivities
August 24, 2008
Sean’s Birthday was last Thursday, but today we had his fun day. Most of the presents were opened last week, but today was his day on the town. As previously mentioned, the kids get a party with their friends every other year and then on the other year, we have a family day.
It started today with a morning of video games. He spent the morning playing some of his new Xbox 360 video games. For presents, he received Madden 09 (yes, we took the plunge again), Bourne Identity and Civilization Revolutions. He has enjoyed all of them. He and Savannah spent 2 or 3 hours this morning alone playing Civilizations. She has even tried a game or two herself. I remember the game from the PC days and still looks as addicting as I remember.
I spent a portion of my morning getting an ailing PC back working. Somehow (situation normal with Windows) a file got corrupted. I set up Windows to run chkdsk and repair the file upon reboot. Evidently, there must have more corrupt files as Windows refused to boot. Finally, had to boot to Windows CD and run chkdsk from the recovery panel. Luckily, it worked and everything seems back to normal. Back to the Birthday festivities…
After a light lunch, we headed of to town for some fun. First, we caught a movie. After some indecision and sadness from Savannah, Sean decided he wanted to see the new Mummy 3 movie. It was an excellent choice. The movie was very enjoyable – a nice mix of action and comedy. They also had a nice way of introducing the new actress (Maria Bello) playing Evie, but I will leave that for you to see in the movie. I still did miss the “old” Evie, but the movie is a winner. I can’t wait to see it again on my Blu-Ray. Yes, you will have to suspend reality once again, but that’s fine for me and movies. Of course, Savannah ended up enjoying the movie too.
After the movie, we went and played miniature golf. The weather cooperated too. It was 4:30 in the pm, so could have been hot and humid being the monsoon season. The temperature was a nice mid 80′s and it was slightly overcast, so the sun didn’t even beat down on us. Mr Papa managed to pull of a four stroke victory in the miniature golf tourney. Sean took third due to a couple of bad holes.
We finished our day off at Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. We kind of thought Sean would pick a nicer place just cause we don’t get out very often, but we all do enjoy that place, so everyone was fine. We had some nachos, wings, popcorn shrimp and pulled pork sliders (like the mini White Castle burgers). Very good indeed, plus they had some preseason football on the TV at our table.
Back at home, unsure how we will close out the day. The kids want to play a board game, but Suzanne wants to watch the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. Either way, its been a fun family day in celebration of Sean’s 12th Birthday.
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