Desert Hot Springs Trip Day 1

We left for Palm Springs yesterday morning. The flight was great. It was a really short flight so of course Amir did pretty good. Although I think the reason he did good was that I had my laptop with movies (Finding Nemo) on it.

When we arrived it was about 100 degrees outside. In the Palm Springs Airport once you leave the gate you have to walk outside about 7 minutes to get to baggage claim/passenger pickup. I thought it was going to be terrible but even though it was 100 degrees it did not feel that hot. It also didn't feel as hot as it was in SLC when it was 90 degrees!! I don't think the sun feels as burney on the skin as it does in SL.

My grandma bought a house in Desert Hot Springs and that is where we are staying. Its one of those houses where the owners ended up not being able to pay the payments and so when they left they took all the appliances, cabinent knobs etc. There is only a little fridge (the kind you would see in a college dorm) and we have 6 adults, 1 teen, 1 kid and 2 toddlers... All using the tiny fridge!! We are using a cooler to keep drinks cool. So we have to go get ice atleast once a day. I forgot to pick up ice yesterday afternoon so there hasn't been ice in the cooler for a while... Oops!

Its now 6:30 am local time of day 2 of our trip. My sisters dumb dog woke Amir up at 5:30 am... Luckily there is coffee.

Update on the Fish!

We got some new fish a couple days ago from Petco. We got an algea eater, a black something and a Bala shark (whatever those are called) We also got 2 more frogs to keep Rudy company.

Well, the black fish is dead. He died today. Charles is eating him. The shark died the morning after we got him. I don't know why he died :(

The bigger of the two frogs that we got died. He died yesterday. We hadn't even been able to photograph or name the ones that died. I guess I could take a picture of the black fish... But I don't think anyone wants to see a now spotted white, black fish. Charles really went at it..

I will get some pictures posted of the survivors.. I never would have guessed that our Walmart fish would out live our Petco fish!!!

Salesman

A salesman came to the door today. I answered it and when I did he said: "Hi! Is your mom around?"

I looked at him with what I'm sure was the look of unexpected shock. He turned red and recovered by saying "Or are you the mom? You can never tell these days...."

This man could not have been much older than me! Do I really look that young? I was even sporting the "mother" look today; Shorts, T-shirt with greasy hair pulled back into a pony tail with no make up! Plus the obvious "I'm a mother" bags under my eyes.

Sheesh.

Upstairs Bathroom! (finally finished!)

We decided to somewhat remodel the upstairs bathroom.

We are:

• Painting
• Redoing some of the plumbing
• Moving the sink where the toilet is
• Moving the toilet where the sink is
• Replacing the tile

Here are some BEFORE, DURING and AFTER pictures:

[read the captions below the pictures]

BEFORE:

Standing in the door way looking in to the right.
The wall to the right next to the toilet.
Standing next to the shower looking at the sink.
Standing in front of the toilet. Facing it.
Ugly white tiles.

DURING:
The sink and toilet are hanging out in the tub. The tile has been torn out.
Where the sink used to be.
Above where the toilet was.
Where the mirror was.
Toilet
Gross floor
Behind the door
The door is to the right.
Where the old vent was.
New Toilet hole
Old toilet hole. You can see the laundry room from up there... lol
Painting.


New tile. Rich laid the tile and then I did the grout.

New tile!!!
The sink and toilet are still hanging out in the tub!
AFTER:
The toilet and sink are in!
Woot woo!

The blue looks sooo much better.

Needless to say, we wont be taking on a project like this for a while. Even though the end result was awesome! Our weekend job turned into almost a whole week!!

Isheys and Shisheys

Yesterday morning Rich & Amir came home from the pet store with a surprise. A Fish Tank! Or as Amir calls them "Isheys" and/or "Shisheys". There are six fish, one frog and one snail.

Photo of the whole tank... Amir picked out the anemones.
The frog is in this picture but he is hard to spot. I will keep trying to get him to come out for his photo shoot. His name is Rudy. I wanted to name him Gimpy but Rich didn't want me to because he said it was lame. Lame is the fact that Rudy is missing half of one of his front legs! Hence the reason I wanted to name him Gimpy!
This is the snail. Not the greatest picture but this snail is awesome! His name is Charles.
These are some of the four fish that Rich cant remember the type of fish that they are. Their names are: Zepplin [bigger stripped fish] Beatrice [bigger white fish] Squirmey [smaller white fish] and Speedy [smaller stripped fish]
This is Fluffy the guppy
and this is Deeno the tetra. Yes tat is Rich's reflection in this picture. Creepy, I know.

Amir named Deeno and Fluffy. The rest Rich and I came up with the names. Amir loves the fish tank. He stayed up way too late last night watching them... Well, we all did. I feel like I spent most of my day in front of the fish tank yesterday! I love it! I'm glad we have it. We have had the tank for approx. 25 hours and all the fish are going strong. If I had to pick who is going to go first I think Rudy will. He seems to be the weak link.