Most of the afternoon was just hanging out with the in-laws, and getting to see their new place (they'd moved out to AZ last year after "seeing one too many hurricanes" in Jacksonville, FL). We ended up going out to a place in a mall in Glendale called Mimi's for dinner. A lot of what we did out there was go to places in malls. I guess I've not spent enough time in the suburbs ... as the whole weekend seemed to focus on hours in the car to get to a mall ... it appears that's what suburban folks do ... the step-mother-in-law seemed to be very excited about the variety and convenience of the various cookie-cutter stores/restaurants in the nearly identical malls.
That evening we went to a pretty decent Mexican place called Macayo's which was in another mall somewhere (Glendale, again, if I'm not mistaken) ... they're part of a small family-owned chain down in Arizona. Their decor was a bit "Disneyesque" but stayed on the cute side of the cute/tacky line (which was well trampled when it came to their souvenir glassware!).
On Tuesday, we basically just got packed and headed to the Airport ... we had to be there by around noon, so there wasn't much time to do anything other than to grab some breakfast at the in-law's subdivision's clubhouse. Southwest has got to be happy about the flights down there, both outbound and return flights were 100% booked ... making them a lot less comfortable than they might have been!
Anyway, that's what I was up to over the past few days ... as if anybody is bothering to read this shit ...