After our morning routine was finished we had decided to do some exploring around town. Rich was in the mood for pancakes and they have an IHOP in town, so off we went. We both had a very nice breakfast that included pancakes. I had some fancy raspberry and white chocolate chip and whip cream pancakes, Rich's were the buttermilk pancakes. Pretty yummy. They had a big screen tv in the restaurant and the big news item was all the rain that the area had experienced overnight and that was still forecast for today. We asked the waitress when it had rained last and she couldn't remember. Apparently in the summer, they get some pretty heavy gully washers, but this time of year, rain is not the norm and if the news was any indication it was a big deal.
After breakfast and Not too far from our rv resort is a new shopping mall that we decided we needed to check out. They had a couple stores I'd never heard of before, Dillards and Kirkland. Dillards was a very nice department store along the lines of a Macy's store. Kirkland was kind of a like a Pier One store, lots of pretty knick knack and fou fou items. Then there were some of your standard box type stores like Petsmart, Walmart to name a few. They have a very nice movie theatre and we're told that the movies are $5 and it is never crowded.
After we came back from our mall exploring, since the weather wasn't great out - it did rain now and then, but nothing like the rain you see in the Willamette Valley, so not sure really what the big deal is, we did a little reading and then another walk around the park.
After dinner, it was time for a movie and then we called it a night.
Saturday
Again after our usual morning routine we decided to do some exploring on the other end of town. Lake Havasu City is a lot bigger than it first appears when you drive through town on hwy 95. They have a Hastings in town, another store we hadn't heard of, but it is a huge bookstore/movie store. They sell new and used books/cds/dvd's and some hobby type items. The movie rental section is huge, it's almost hard to pick out a movie because there are so many options.
After spending quite a bit of time in Hastings, we drove up one of the main streets in town and it kept going and going and finally looped back around to the highway, it went from stores to residential until you got back to hwy 95, like I said: "this town is a lot bigger than it appears".
We stopped to do our Thanksgiving grocery shopping and we were amazed at the lack of crowds in the grocery stores. We kept comparing it to shopping in Bend on a weekend before a holiday and couldn't believe how empty the stores seemed. I guess all the winter visitors aren't here yet, we are told that January/February/March are the real busy months here.
We didn't do much else news worthy the rest of the day after our shopping excursion.
Sunday
We had scoped out a church to attend this week called Living Word Family Church, so off we went to attend the 9:00 a.m. service. When we pulled up, it didn't look too busy, hmmm that's curious, but in we went. The greeters were very friendly and introduced us to several people and let us know that the adult Sunday school started at 9:00, so that explains the lack of people.
After church we stopped at the local Starbucks for our traditional after church latte. We were very happy to see that they have a Starbucks in town. After our coffee we headed down to check out the "London Bridge". We had driven over it when we first arrived at our first campground, but we had not gone down and walked around it. We were waiting for sunny skies which would make for nicer pictures. The bridge is alot bigger than both Rich and I imagined and the story is quite interesting. Click on the link above for the story.
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| The bridge is quite large |
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After our tour, the rest of the afternoon it was warm enough to sit outside and read if you sat in a sheltered spot from the breeze. My kind of afternoon, a little reading, a little snooze, more reading and visiting with folks walking by.
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