Gilbert, Arizona was our home for four years and when we moved away we thought we would be back to visit once a year or more, however, life seems to get in the way and it took us nearly three years to get back to our second home...and home it still was. We decided not to tell anyone we were coming, except Mike Romney, which was kept totally confidential because he was in Haiti prior to our arrival! The evening we flew in we decided to drive through the old hood and just start knocking on doors. As we were entering The Gardens Steve said, "I think we'll see Matt Porter playing at the park with his daughters" and sure enough Matt was our first sighting! We then crashed the Jelinek pad, tried a couple others but there was no answer, and called it a night at the Nielson's. I highly recommend this kind of arrival - it was crazy fun! Even on short notice our friends were able to hang with us a bit. Our bishop and his wife even fit it into their schedule to join us for dinner. We ate lots of good food, laughed hard, and were reminded over and over why these people make Gilbert our second home.
3 comments:
How fun!! I bet those you dropped in on were just sooooo excited! So fun to see pictures of everyone, you guys all look fabulous!
How fun to surprise everyone! I miss that ol' hood and all the good times there.
I'm SO glad you came too!! Although I have to wonder why Steve was so sure he'd see Matt at the park.. since we didn't have kids the whole time you guys lived here. Ha! Glad we could have a fun get-together. Maybe someday we'll get our lazy bums up to Idaho to visit you!
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