Taking it Easy, Keeping it Lazy
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canyonwalkerPhoenix Getaway Travelog #9
Back at the hotel - Mon, 3 Apr 2023, 10:30pm
After we finished our hike up-up-up and back down-down-down Camelback Peak this afternoon it was time for lunch. We ate at a small Navajo-Mex restaurant. It's "-Mex" because the styles of food are (northern) Mexican, with tacos and tostadas and burritos. But it's Navajo because a) the owners and staff are all/mostly Navajo, and b) the specialty on the menu is frybread. We both had open-face frybreads piled high with various toppings (meat, beans, cheese, lettuce, sauce) a la tostadas.
Muscle stiffness was setting in for me so I gobbled a bunch of Ibuprofen with my meal. Afterwards we visited a Walgreen's drugstore to buy topical painkiller for my wrenched shoulder. I considered Voltaren gel and Aspercream. I went with the Aspercream figuring I was already taking Ibuprofen in pill form for my legs. Voltaren is basically topical Ibuprofen, and I didn't want to overdose it. Aspercream is a different type of medication, an analgesic versus an NSAID, so they're safer to combine.
Back at the hotel I slathered some of the pain cream on my shoulder and changed for the pool. That's right, after a butt-kicker of a hike we're going to the pool! And not just a pool but the hotel's lazy river.
Hawk and I both wondered if me lying prone atop a float and going around the loop for 2 hours would aggravate my shoulder. You know what? It didn't. It was actually awesome. Awesome not just to relax but to actually be lazy. I mean, it's a lazy river. If you paddle to go faster, the lifeguards throw you out. ...Or I imagine they would, if there were actually any lifeguards.
Our lazy rest of the day included more than just the lazy river. After lazily floating around for about 2 hours I stretched out on a chaise lounge under some shade. I lazed there until Hawk was ready to go in, around 5pm. Then we lazed up in the room toghether. I stretched out on the bed while Hawk took the sofa. (There was room for both on the bed but she preferred the sofa.)
After a few hours of lazing in the room it was time for dinner. We'd had a late lunch— and I'd supplemented mine with a delicious milkshake from Jack in the Box— so we weren't super hungry. We ate leftovers in the room. I still had several slices of deep dish pizza left over from dinner the night before. I ate two and left the rest for Monday's breakfast.
After dinner we changed back into our swimsuits, which were still damp, and headed down to the hot tub. We had a good long soak and made conversation with the other folks there. One works at a company that is a customer of mine but hasn't heard about our product— and desperately needs it. She didn't want to give me more than her first name (I understand women feeling a bit cautious when meeting strangers half-naked) but I told her how to find out more about our software, and she said she'd look it up.
Okay, doing some selling in the hot tub was definitely not lazy! But soon we toweled off, came back to our room, and vegged with TV and computers. I've rubbed on another treatment of Aspercream as my shoulder was getting achy again. The cream definitely helps though it doesn't completely solve the pain. It's enough at least to make it ignorable when I don't think about it.
Now, it's off to bed. We've got more lazing to do tomorrow morning!
Back at the hotel - Mon, 3 Apr 2023, 10:30pm
After we finished our hike up-up-up and back down-down-down Camelback Peak this afternoon it was time for lunch. We ate at a small Navajo-Mex restaurant. It's "-Mex" because the styles of food are (northern) Mexican, with tacos and tostadas and burritos. But it's Navajo because a) the owners and staff are all/mostly Navajo, and b) the specialty on the menu is frybread. We both had open-face frybreads piled high with various toppings (meat, beans, cheese, lettuce, sauce) a la tostadas.
Muscle stiffness was setting in for me so I gobbled a bunch of Ibuprofen with my meal. Afterwards we visited a Walgreen's drugstore to buy topical painkiller for my wrenched shoulder. I considered Voltaren gel and Aspercream. I went with the Aspercream figuring I was already taking Ibuprofen in pill form for my legs. Voltaren is basically topical Ibuprofen, and I didn't want to overdose it. Aspercream is a different type of medication, an analgesic versus an NSAID, so they're safer to combine.
Back at the hotel I slathered some of the pain cream on my shoulder and changed for the pool. That's right, after a butt-kicker of a hike we're going to the pool! And not just a pool but the hotel's lazy river.
Hawk and I both wondered if me lying prone atop a float and going around the loop for 2 hours would aggravate my shoulder. You know what? It didn't. It was actually awesome. Awesome not just to relax but to actually be lazy. I mean, it's a lazy river. If you paddle to go faster, the lifeguards throw you out. ...Or I imagine they would, if there were actually any lifeguards.
Our lazy rest of the day included more than just the lazy river. After lazily floating around for about 2 hours I stretched out on a chaise lounge under some shade. I lazed there until Hawk was ready to go in, around 5pm. Then we lazed up in the room toghether. I stretched out on the bed while Hawk took the sofa. (There was room for both on the bed but she preferred the sofa.)
After a few hours of lazing in the room it was time for dinner. We'd had a late lunch— and I'd supplemented mine with a delicious milkshake from Jack in the Box— so we weren't super hungry. We ate leftovers in the room. I still had several slices of deep dish pizza left over from dinner the night before. I ate two and left the rest for Monday's breakfast.
After dinner we changed back into our swimsuits, which were still damp, and headed down to the hot tub. We had a good long soak and made conversation with the other folks there. One works at a company that is a customer of mine but hasn't heard about our product— and desperately needs it. She didn't want to give me more than her first name (I understand women feeling a bit cautious when meeting strangers half-naked) but I told her how to find out more about our software, and she said she'd look it up.
Okay, doing some selling in the hot tub was definitely not lazy! But soon we toweled off, came back to our room, and vegged with TV and computers. I've rubbed on another treatment of Aspercream as my shoulder was getting achy again. The cream definitely helps though it doesn't completely solve the pain. It's enough at least to make it ignorable when I don't think about it.
Now, it's off to bed. We've got more lazing to do tomorrow morning!
