Saturday morning I picked her up at the airport and took her up to Gma's house so she could get the subie. I convinced her that she wouldn't be 'cramping Kelsey and I's style' by staying with us; so she did. On a good note, she was super pumped with how my place looked, and how good we seemed to be at all of the up keep!
We took an adventure through Sears Mall and looked at a few washers and dryers and asked a lot of questions because frankly, I have little space for a new set. The stackable set that I ended up getting actually turned out to be at Best Buy, so we did some shopping around! They should be here next week! Horray!
We also had a good time trying to get mom through the security gate at Fort Richardson when we went to the cemetery to give the grandparents some flowers! Kelsey and I both seemed to get our ID's scanned with no problem, but moms buzzed like a robot would buzz going through a metal detector. It took a few extra minutes so the officer could 'check her out' and he let us through. We trekked through two feet of snow to find grandma and grandpas headstones that were barely peaking through the snow; it was super cold. Hadn't been in a while, so it was nice to be out there, especially on a beautiful day like it was.
Oh, yeah, and we ate. It's always awesome to hit some of the better places to eat in town when the family comes! We hit Arctic Roadrunner, The Lucky Wishbone, Jewel Lake Pizza $ Tea Garden; oh so goooood.
Oh, and as a highlight of my week, my water heater had some repairs done. Yay for the responsibilities of owning your own place. I thought I had a major problem with the water heater because water was leaking out of the panels on the side. Fortunately, it was just a leak from the pipe going into the top of the heater, and dripping in through the screw holes. I imagine the problem had been there for a while, because the bonehead people who lived here before me put a 'water band-aid' over the leak, and just called it good. One plumber call later, shutting off the water to the entire condominium complex, through the crawlspace of someone else's unit and my water heater was fixed! (Should have been a damn plumber)!
It was great to have mom here in town, we accomplished a lot! I'll be in Canada next week for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; so I'll be posting about that!
