Post Tusconage Winddownitude

We're back from our Pirate Convention in Arizona. We got rained on for most of the week, which is not generally what you expect from The Grand Canyon State. Now that we're home, we're all completely tired, (We had to pretend to be interested in talking to all of our customers at the show. That really takes it out of you.)

We're all lying around here at headquarters, totally not looking forward to unloading the Pirate Van. I don't know how we managed to fit everything in. We have a standard size fan, into which we crammed 4 1/2 people, their weeks worth of luggage, tons of copies of our books, and boxies of pirate cookies and souvenirs, as well as all of our booth display. While taking boxes out of the back here at home, we found Lester asleep in one of our dufflebags. Also, coming back, we somehow managed to have MORE stuff, such as the 3 new swords I bought, Scurvybeards Sombrero souvenir, A stuffed and mounted rattlesnake, and a bunch of tshirts and regridgerator magnets we bought because they were mispelled and on sale.

Speaking of Fridges, We saw a really cool fridge on the side of the road in tucson. It was new, only looked old, design wise. It was bright red, and really 50's art-deco coolness. It looked like Flash Gordon's Fridge. We would have stolen it, but as I said, we didn't have the room.

Highlights of the trip include:
The Scary Hotel Room of Doom with Police Cars Around It, Roving Gangs of Weirdo People, Lots of Dirt, A Hand Written Sign for the Lobby, Really Hard Beds, and Trains Going By All Night
The Coldest Jacuzzi of All Time (At Our Much Nicer Hotel Later On.)
A Pretty Neat Used Book Store with Old Back Issues Of Piracy Weekly and Everything.
The Best Chinese Food Shrimp We've Ever Had (and We were nowhere near china, or the sea. I know! Weird Huh?)
The Worst Mexican Food We've Ever Gad (and We were less than an hour drive from Mexico! For Shame.)
No Eyes Johnson Getting a Crick in His Neck and Not Shutting Up About It
Lester Getting Strip Searched by the Border Patrol
Me Trying to Get Some Work Done on My Novel and Not Doing So
Baked Goods
Getting Lost Far Too Often
Us Realizing When We Got Back That We Hadn't Watched TV for a Week Anda Half, and Not Noticing It

You may be wondering how we drove to Arizona, considering our van is not located within the Continental United States, nor the USA at all. My answer to this is: Shh.