Meeting Ted In Arizona

We had a wonderful night last night! We met Ted, Ashley and Travis at Rawhide, in the little "Wild West Town" of Chandler, Arizona, about 20 or 30 minutes south of Phoenix.

We enjoyed a great dinner in the dinning room of the steakhouse below. I had my favorite: salmon, and my Mike had baby back ribs. Ted was sitting next to me so I know that he had steak that looked very good. The dinning room wasn't this crowded and we practically had the place to ourselves. We had personal attention with the live music.



























We strolled through the dusty streets of the little town, and enjoyed watching Ted ride the mechanical bull. You will all have a chance to see that up live and personal on the blog and probably U-tube.

Other bloggers who came were my two niece's, Kristin and Jenny and her husband Daniel, and two other Arizona bloggers, Mike and Fred. Fred's not his real name, but that's what Mike calls him.

As many of you bloggers know, Ted, Travis and Ashley have traveled from coast to coast (they are planning to go to San Francisco after Vegas) and have been collecting cans from the bloggers they meet along the way. They donate the cans to the food banks in the respective cities.

One great blogger brought 200 cans! Good for her!

Ironically enough, Mike the other blogger (not to be confused with my husband Mike) and I both brought 18 cans. We had a tie and Ted, Travis and Ashley had to rack their brains to decide who to give the Roomba to. One of us had won the little vacuum, but who?

They came up with the idea of giving it to the one who could come the closest to guessing how long Ted could stay on the bull. We got to Rawhide before the rest of the guys and had watched another man ride the bull. I didn't count how long he stayed on it but later thought it was no more than 5 or 6 seconds.

I guessed 7 seconds.

Mike the blogger really! really! really! wanted the Roomba! He was trying everything he could think of to convince me that he really needed it.

His guess was 6 seconds, and was very disappointed when Ted stayed on the bull 7 1/2 seconds! I was counting one-thousand, two-thousand etc., and came up with 9 seconds. But my Mike had an actual counter and said it was 7 1/2 seconds.

I could feel the disappointment Mike was feeling. Unbeknown to him, my Mike and I had already decided to give it to him. I had told Travis what we planned to do before Ted got on the bull.

We all had a fun night of visiting, eating, talking, and riding the bull. Well, since Ted was the only one who rode the bull I guess you'll have to ask him how much fun that was.

The guys were exhausted! They had traveled from Dallas to Albuquerque, New Mexico the day before, and then from there to Phoenix arriving later than had been planned, about 8:15 PM.

Ted didn't look that excited to ride the bull but was a good sport. And really did a good job of it as you will all see.

It was great meeting you guys! We loved it!