Day 11 - Surprise, AZ

Breakfast out today at Cracker Barrel in Goodyear. Don't get to this restaurant very often (none in Oregon), which makes the Uncle Herschel a real treat. Two fried eggs, sugar cured ham, hash brown casserole, grits and biscuits and gravy. I'm good till dinner.

Then to Target for a birthday card and gift card and then off to the post office. Some things don't go on hold for vacations.

After missing a turn or two we arrived at CantaMia to check out model homes, two of which seem to meet our size needs at around 1,700 square feet. It's really amazing how many dollars of upgrades they can cram into a home. Out experience over the years is that anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000 can wind up on top of the base price. They usually say something like 25% for the base, but I think that's a minimum.

Weather was a little cooler (at least for Phoenix), with a high around 77°. Rest of the week looks to be back up in the 80's. As long as it stays out of the mid to high 90's and above I'm fine.

Dinner tonight was lasagna with meatballs and sausage from My Daddy's Italian Bakery & Café. By the way, the cannoli we got the other day were great.

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