In my previous post I mentioned we'd been to a neighbour's house for a party on Saturday, and were to return on Sunday for leftovers and more. Someone also suggested we should go out for our final meal on the Monday, so off we went for burgers and beer.
Unfortunately, two couples couldn't make it Monday, one of them being the homeowners who had the party. So they suggested the six of us should get together for wine and appetizers on Tuesday, as a last farewell. Do you see a pattern here? Socializing Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday ... and we were leaving Wednesday. We did more socializing in three weeks at this house sit than we probably do in six months in Niagara!
Our excitement for Tuesday night (remember, we're all young seniors) was that a cactus was expected to bloom. Not just any cactus though ... a night blooming cereus cactus. As this website link will show, this cactus supposedly only blooms one midsummer night each year, and the flower then dies off the next day. Well, it wasn't a midsummer night, but they had two ready to bloom that evening. That was our excitement!
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| 6:32 pm |
Here it is at 6:32 pm. OK, yes, we start our get togethers early in a senior's community.
The photo above is just a close up, taken at the same time. Below you'll see the times the other photos were taken that same evening.
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| 6:49 pm |
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| 7:04 pm |
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| 8:18 pm |
For those jokers we know, yes, we were still up at that hour!
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| Taken about 7 am the next morning |
As I said, there were two of these cactus ready to bloom. So, I'll do the same sequence of photos for the other one.
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| 6:31 pm |
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| 6:31 pm - enlarged |
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| 6:49 pm |
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| 8:18 pm |
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| About 7 am the next morning |
As you can see, this one didn't bloom in midsummer, and it didn't die off by the next morning. Here's an unusual photo captured by another neighbour that morning. She's not usually an early riser, so I'm not sure if she was up early to see the cactus, or to say her goodbyes once more to us.
Regardless, it was hugs all round and off we went on our travels back to Canada.
Google maps shows it as a 34-hour journey from Green Valley, Arizona to our home. We've just finished day 3 and we're stopped for the night. We have 9 more hours of travel to go, so we'll soon be home.
In keeping with our pet sitting, I'll finish here with a funny sight we saw at the gas station yesterday.
Greg added his own caption, while I was taking this photo ... "What are you looking at?" was what he thought the dog was saying. I think this dog might be a handful to pet sit!
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