Early to Bed, Early to Rise... Again
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canyonwalkerPhoenix late April travelog #5
Arizona Grand Hotel - Saturday, 29 Apr 2023, 8:40am
It was early to bed, early to rise again last night and this morning. After the same thing happened Thursday night/yesterday morning I had hoped to get onto a more normal vacation schedule. ..."Normal" being a) not pooping out at 9pm and b) not waking up shortly after 5am. Alas it happened again.
Last night Hawk pooped out before dinner, opting to eat a small, quiet meal in the room. One of our friends had pooped out, too, though that was expected as he's got a medical condition. That left me and our other friend, David, to go out to dinner by ourselves. We ate at a Thai restaurant a few blocks from the hotel. Amusingly David and I chatted with "another" gay couple at the table next to us. I quote "another" because they were actually gay. They never asked if we were, probably just assuming as we were also two guys having dinner together and David shared a few anecdotes containing... for lack of a better word, gay code words. I guess sometimes Hawk is my beard.
When I got back from dinner Hawk had already fallen asleep. So much for our plans to go out to the hot tub at 9. I needed to do something to walk off dinner, though, so I walked around the water park (closed for the evening):
It's a nice looking place even in the dark.
I could have gone out to the hot tub by myself, or maybe even with David, but I was okay with just winding down in the room. I relaxed with a couple drinks I bought at the grocery store the other day while doing some mostly mindless web surfing. I was asleep not long after 10.
This morning I woke up at about 5:30, only slightly less early than yesterday. Light was already streaming in the big windows. I tried going back to sleep for a few minutes but it didn't work so I accepted my fate of beginning the day. Today Hawk woke up only a bit later than me— instead of nearly 3 hours later— so after a light breakfast we went downstairs for a morning soak in the hot tub. It's blessedly quiet outside in the mornings. The heat's not too bad, either. By mid-afternoon it'll be at least 100.
Arizona Grand Hotel - Saturday, 29 Apr 2023, 8:40am
It was early to bed, early to rise again last night and this morning. After the same thing happened Thursday night/yesterday morning I had hoped to get onto a more normal vacation schedule. ..."Normal" being a) not pooping out at 9pm and b) not waking up shortly after 5am. Alas it happened again.
Last night Hawk pooped out before dinner, opting to eat a small, quiet meal in the room. One of our friends had pooped out, too, though that was expected as he's got a medical condition. That left me and our other friend, David, to go out to dinner by ourselves. We ate at a Thai restaurant a few blocks from the hotel. Amusingly David and I chatted with "another" gay couple at the table next to us. I quote "another" because they were actually gay. They never asked if we were, probably just assuming as we were also two guys having dinner together and David shared a few anecdotes containing... for lack of a better word, gay code words. I guess sometimes Hawk is my beard.
When I got back from dinner Hawk had already fallen asleep. So much for our plans to go out to the hot tub at 9. I needed to do something to walk off dinner, though, so I walked around the water park (closed for the evening):
It's a nice looking place even in the dark.
I could have gone out to the hot tub by myself, or maybe even with David, but I was okay with just winding down in the room. I relaxed with a couple drinks I bought at the grocery store the other day while doing some mostly mindless web surfing. I was asleep not long after 10.
This morning I woke up at about 5:30, only slightly less early than yesterday. Light was already streaming in the big windows. I tried going back to sleep for a few minutes but it didn't work so I accepted my fate of beginning the day. Today Hawk woke up only a bit later than me— instead of nearly 3 hours later— so after a light breakfast we went downstairs for a morning soak in the hot tub. It's blessedly quiet outside in the mornings. The heat's not too bad, either. By mid-afternoon it'll be at least 100.
