travel update - phoenix

i should really update my travels over the last few days. here goes. hope it's not boring.

on monday we (i will just clarify that the 'we' means mum, dad and me - i will not mention the fact that at 26 years of age i am on holidays with my parents ever again - i will just refer to us as 'we' so we can all pretend this isn't happening - just don't tell anyone that i am having an alright time - that's even worse) anyway, on monday we went and checked out long beach and took it pretty easy. we went for a swim at the hotel and met up with uncle robert. we went out with him and his work mate for dinner. after we got back to the hotel we saw a bit of australia's game against japan (see my previous blog for my thoughts on that game - legends).
we got up tuesday and began our drive out to phoenix. tuesday morning sucked. we started driving but had to change rental car because there was something dodgy going on with the wheel. that was ok, but annoying. until we drove out of the place and then realised they hadn't put any petrol in it, so we had to go back. and then i found out to change my flights to go home a little bit earlier was going to cost me $500. and a few other little things happened and we were all hating tuesday morning. but at least we hated it together and could laugh that it sucked. the day got better and hotter. the drive out to phoenix went relatively quickly. it's about 300 miles, whatever that is in kms. by the time we got out to phoenix the temperature was about 44 degrees celcius. hot. hot. hot.
anyway, the whole reason we are in phoenix is to visit some old family friends, vivian and rod. our families go back a long way. i'll tell you another day if you ask, but too long to blog about now. so we just hung out last night. george, their son, who's dad's age and his wife flo are here too.
today, wednesday, we all slept in. i had a good sleep but did wake up about 3.30am when i heard people up in the kitchen. turns out george got stung in the butt by a scorpian in the middle of the night. i always thought they were deadly. apparently not. you just use ice.
it's too hot to do anything else and we didn't come to this massive city in the middle of the desert to do sightseeing anyway, so we spent most of the day at the mall. mum and i shopped. dad, george and flo went to a movie. we've just finished dinner, which was awesome and full of laughs. i am with some funny people right now.
tomorrow we (back to the original 3 again) head off to flagstaff. then friday will be our grand canyon day.
so i hope that wasn't too boring a blog, but just thought i'd fill you in on the details of my whereabouts.