Saturday was nuts!! Josh called at around 9 a.m. and told Zion that a couple guys were on their way to the hovel to paint the outside of it. He has been planning on getting it painted for a few months now, but the guys weren't ready to do it yet. They apparently called him about 5 minutes before he called us and told him that they were going to get it done today.

Because Becca is pregnant, and can't be around paint fumes, they immediately left for the day. Jariah, Becca and Brandon got up and got ready quickly so they would be gone before the paint fumes started flying. They went out for breakfast, took their time letting Brandon play in the McDonalds play land, went ahead to our new apartment to sign the final papers, then came back about 3 hours later to check the progress of the painters. The painters had gotten there about 5 minutes before and were just starting to tape off the place...

Zion and I hadn't gone anywhere yet, we weren't sure what we were going to do because we had been planning on packing up some stuff to get ready for our move and for my parents coming to visit, but when the painters got there and started working, they asked us to turn the coolers off because it was messing up the paint, so when Jariah and Becca got back, we all headed out together to destination unknown!!

We ended up going to the Planetarium, which was big fun for Brandon and pretty boring for the rest of us. (After growing up 15 minutes from the Neil Armstrong Space Museum, Tucson's little planetarium was pretty sad...)

After the show at the planetarium, we were all hungry, so we decided to go to Olive Garden for soup, salad, bread sticks and their famous and delicious Bellini iced tea. We went to the one on the other side of town, right by the Park Place mall, so after eating, we went to the mall to kill some more time. By this point of the day, it was about 6:30, we figured the paint guys were probably done, so we could go back home to at least turn on the cooler then we would go back out for another hour to give the cooler a chance to cool down the hovel a bit.

When we got back to the hovel, we saw that the painters hadn't gotten very much done, and they were in fact just arriving back to the house to continue painting. It had gotten really hot during the day, and when it got to be too much for them, they left. It was 6:30, and they had another few hours of work to do before we could come home!

We then headed over to the Tucson Mall and walked around for a couple more hours, then came back home ready to relax at around 9 p.m. The guys were gone, the painting wasn't quite finished and the fumes were horrible!!! At this point, Becca was dead tired (she'd been walking around and out and about for 12 hours straight!!!) and we knew it would probably be a few more hours before the fumes would dissipate. We had no where to go, everything was closed. Zion called Josh, and he said we could come over for a while if we wanted, but Jariah said the fumes probably wouldn't be gone until morning. Becca went out to the car to stay away from the fumes while Jariah called area hotels and looked online for a room. They ended up staying down the road at Best Western costing them 70 bucks.

It was the longest, most boring day in a year-long history of the most boring days of our lives... and here was a post to match the boringness of the day!!

I'll let Becca tell you about the drunken party in the room next door...