Nov
13
2009

Mission Dinning Table - Complete

Plus Tim Tams, And The Ash Ave. Bridge

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, November 13, 2009 - 04:00:55 pm
(Posted Under: Operation Desert Rock)
This morning we phoned the furniture store and relayed our chair assembly problem, and to our delight they told us to just bring the chairs back and they'd assemble them free of cost - awesome!

So we immediately packed them up in Pepe and headed back to Mesa to drop them off. From there we decided to head over to Target to investigate some larger plates, and then kill some time at Tempe Beach Park to see if we heard back on the Harbor Village collateral stuff.

Target was a bust for plates, however Katie was quite excited when she saw Tim Tams on the shelve at the entrance at Target. Not Arnotts, but on inspection, legit "product of Australia" Tim Tams. With a little research once we got back, they're the real deal. "Pepperidge Farms" is a sister company of Arnotts, and apparently they were introduced to the US as a trial between Nov '08 and Mar '08. (See Coming to America: Tim Tams). No idea whether they're old stock they're getting rid of (they were actually on clearance for $2.50) or whether they took off and are now a main stay, but either way, pretty cool to find Tim Tams in the US not in an expensive import food store.

We then headed over to Tempe Beach Park and went by the bridge to see if there had been any progress on the bridge and the war memorial. I had some fear that we'd get back and it'd already be underway. Not likely under a month, but with my luck, it's the sort of thing that you worry about. But not a thing had changed. We took a good look at the bridge, and went the full way down the old bleachers, right up to Rio Salado, which neither of us had done in the past. It was cool getting a good view of the bleachers. And pondered why they were shut down to the public (and whether they are adjacent to the ball park), as they don't really look weather, nor a safety concern. It was cool that there was a gate out to Rio Salado that was open, so we could head out there and walk up a little bit and check out the old Ash Avenue, leading down to the bridge ruins. The fencing did raise the question of exactly how long the area has been fenced off for.

While we were down there, the furniture place called to say the chairs were done...no more than 2 hours after we dropped them off - and they had told us it may take 24 hours. Sweet. So, we headed back down to Mesa, picked them up and the headed back to the apartment. And in celebration we ate lunch at our new dinner sweet, which was very sweet, particularly given the pain of last night. And right now I'm typing from the dinning room table - it's really nice to have the option to set up my laptop here, rather than be restricting only to the living room. Ahhh, the beautiful pay off - that we were expecting last night, but really only had to delay for about 12 hours. Life is good!
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