What a super day!

7:26 am - Monday - February 12th - GNHS - 43° F, humidity 77%, wind 2 mph out of the east by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 64° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were courtesy parking at the home of high a school friend, Patty, and her husband Phil, in Palmetto Bay, FL....had to back into that spot from way up the street.....

 We were up kind of early Super Bowl Sunday, but not to watch the Superbowl, but because Friday evening I was cruising Instagram and saw a post by our daughter-in-law, TAR*, that she and our son were boondocking at Ocotillo Wells, directly across the Salton Sea from GNHS.  It is about a 55 minute drive from here to their location, so I called my son (Chris) immediately to make arrangements to meet up with them, and we settled on Sunday morning.  He advised if we got there early enough he would make us breakfast....okay, that's a deal!

We were out the door by 8:30 am, and pulled into their boondock spot just before 9:30 am, after a quick restroom break at the local travel center....

Chris is a lot like his Dad in that he really enjoys creating his own unique environment when he is boondocking

....within minutes we were eating breakfast which consisted of BLT's and Chorizo.....Chris is a very good chef.  Chris and TAR have a 2006 Fleetwood Expedition with four slides.  It may be 18 years old, but it still looks brand new. They store it in an indoor facility, plus Chris is always updating it....he takes very good care of his stuff, for sure.

As is always the case when we have them to ourselves, we spent the entire time we were there (about 5.5 hours) talking.  Since we don't like driving in the dark, we wanted to be on our way home by 2:30 pm in order to be home in time for the Superbowl.  We could have stayed there and joined their watch party, but I knew the game would not be over until sometime between 7 and 8 pm, and especially did not want to be getting back home at 9 pm....we're old....lol.

It was time to say our 'until next times' way too soon, so we bid them adieu and began the 55 minute drive back to GNHS just before 2:30 pm.....we have met Chris and TAR out at Ocotillo Wells 5, or 6 times over the past years, and always cherish our time with them.....  

.....we arrived home around without incident at 3:20 pm, and within minutes the Superbowl had begun....

.....my only desire for the Superbowl each year is that the game be close, and interesting at the end, and this game pitting the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs (please don't ever change your team name) ended up being just that.  San Francisco was the #1 NFC seed, while K.C. was a wild card team.  They had the beat the #1 seed for the AFC (Baltimore Ravens) to get to the Superbowl.  The game seesawed back and forth the entire game, but at the end of regulation it was tied 19-19....an unlikely football score.  So, for only the second time in Superbowl history the game went to overtime.  The Superbowl overtime rules have changed a lot since the last overtime game, and now they essentially begin a new half in overtime.  San Francisco score first, a field goal, after an almost 8 minute drive.  Then it was KC's turn.....they drove 75 yards and scored a touchdown with 3 seconds left in the quarter winning the game 25-22.  Now that was a great Superbowl.  That was the 3rd Superbowl victory for KC in the last 4, or 5 years....they're beginning to look like the New England Patriots.

By the time the post game show was over it was going on 10 pm, and our bed time....what a great day it was.  We are still basking in the afterglow of our time spent with Chris and Rochelle.

Thanks for stopping by!

*TAR = The Amazing Rochelle