Date Morning

Most people will shout for joy when they get to experience Date Night. 

When you live with a night-shifter, your schedule goes a bit caddywhompus.  There are all sorts of things you do differently.

• We eat dinner early (5 - 5:30pm) so he can eat with us before he leaves for the night.
• Days off are not real days off unless there are at least 2 scheduled in a row.  Otherwise the day off is overshadowed by his need to sleep and recover from working the night before.
• Doctor, dentist and other appointments must be carefully scheduled around sleep-time, not work-time.
• Cleaning the Master Bath and/or Bedroom is tricky when he's sleeping during the day and your cleaning capacity functions better before dinner.
• AND, Date Night is rarely an option.  A much more viable option is Date Morning

So this morning, at about 9am we headed off to our date.  First, we went bowling.  In case you didn't know, East Mesa, AZ, is notorious for housing senior citizens.  And this just happened to be where the bowling alley was located.  We pulled into the parking lot and I was surprised to see it so full of cars. 

I had no idea so many senior citizens bowled together on Monday mornings.




Josh and Millie bowling together


We were easily the youngest people there by at least 30 years.  The group next to us was probably in their 70s.  But, man, did those old people know how to have fun!

Every time Millie bowled, she'd turn around and start jumping and yelling, "I did it!  I did it!"

Josh is a good bowler.

That's right.  I had 5 gutter balls.  And this was my best game.  What of it???

I am not.

After that we decided to grab some lunch and then head to the new LDS Gilbert, AZ Temple. 

It's still very much a work in progress, but it was really cool to stop by the Visitor Trailer to see so many of the plans of what it will all look like sometime in 2013. 

The tall spires are the elevator shafts.  They stand 53' high.  The Angel Moroni will cap the temple at 193' high, an additional 140' above the elevator shafts.  It's hard to understand how grand that will be from the pictures because it's hard to understand how grand that will be even when you look at it in person.

And a temple only 15 miles away from home!  How great will that be???

And that, my friends, is a Date Morning.  We got home in plenty of time to then separate to run different errands, but it was a wonderful morning while it lasted.