Celena's Pizza and Best Western Hacienda

First my rant and if I have time I will recap our trip!  And that will more than likely be in a different post as I'm pretty ticked right now!!!

We left after Church on Sunday and flew to SD for several reasons - one being me needing the dentist rather badly - It worked that the contractors really wanted us out of the house so they could get thier work done - but - that's still another story!! LOL  I know, I do tend to run around the track a bit -
But to my rant!

I've been 'dentisting' all week.  My mouth has been to sore to eat since Monday morning!  Tonight she finished up everything (amazing in itself!) and it all feels really, really good.  And I'm hungry!!.

Keith and I walked down to Coldstone for a snack.  It's Friday night in Old Towne and everything is crowded - and long lines everyhwere - so we decied to come back and order from the flyer that we found in our room...  Celena's Pizza.

Boy, If you are ever in San Diego and find a flyer for Celena's Pizza - just use it for tp or something!!!
The flyer says "FREE DELIVERY TO MOST AREAS", as well as offering a 10% Military Discount, and $2 off if you have to use your cell phone.  The menu has a pretty good variety of pasta and pizza.  So we decide on the Pasta for 2 for $20.00 which included 2 salads, garlic bread, and 2 cokes.  Keith decided that he also wanted a piece of cheesecake - so ok....  Still not bad.  He got the spaghetti and meatballs and I ordered the lasagna.  It is announced that the total is 36.95 and 45 min to 1 hour.  It took a minute - (and after the hangup) for me to realize he hadn't gotten the credit card number either.  And I was still trying to figure out the total price.  So I find in little bitty words on the back - 'delivery charge $5.50  So.. still I am confused - but then again - that is normal... hahaa!!

So our food gets here and we give him the credit card - he says - give the number to the man on the phone - so - ok - and the man says there will be an additional charge for using the credit card!  and the free delivery is only in "most areas" -- so I ask several times where 'most areas' are and completely get the run around before he finally says, it must mean downtown... and then he wants a tip.  I know it's not his fault - but I just got ripped off for his tip by his employer!!  $10 for taxes, delivery charge, and credit card payment charge!!  and he wants a tip too???  Well, I left that part up to Keith - don't really know what he did - but GEEEZZZZ!!  And I looked up the place and it's in Mission Valley - a scant mile from here.  Talk about a total rip!!!

And we open our now lukewarm food - Keith has no meatballs, the lasagna is watery,the salads are wilty lettuce, no parm, the garlic bread was put in the bag with the cokes, and the portions are so small that Keith ate both of them... and the cheesecake was the size of a matchbox. 

So that is what you get from Celena's Pizza menu that is in the hotel room at Best Western Hacienda!!  So very disappointing ~ and so sad that yet another person just practices a rip off!

So, now I'm over my rant and feel all better - and hope to save some other sucker from being the same suckers we were!

June Gloom!

On June 1 we went up to Washington to watch the older 3 kids participate in the District Track meet. Destini didn't end up qualifying at the end, and right before the meet - Brayana didn't either - she was 1% below the allowable grade in one of her classes ~ and not enough time between the grade check and the meet to do anything to bring it up - so we all went and cheered Jaleel on. He did the Javelin thro - 108 feet (or somewhere close to that) - his team placed 1st in the 2x200 (which gave his team 1st place in the state) and 3rd in the last relay of the day. Their team was affected by an injury which necessitated a last minute substitution ~ but made up a lot of ground and finished well anyway. We had a blast at the track meet.

Here is Jaleel winning the 1st relay:

We also attended Tetee's t-ball game.  She reminds me sooooo much of her mother at that age!  'Nuff said there! LOL

 She loves getting her uniform on and all the preparation~

But the rest of it gets a bit boring for her! LOL

Since we were there for S'te's birthday I thought I'd work with the kids to bake a cake for her ~~~ It wasn't one of our finer outcomes - to say the very, very least! Being unfamiliar with her ovens - I didn't realize that neither of them (she has 2) heat evenly or tay at a temp well...

So needless to say.. the cake looked rather terrible! I went to stack it and .... welll....

I did find enough of a piece to put her flames on!  Boy what a volcano!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

Spring in Coos Bay

We have several projects in the works again this summer! I spent Jeremy's birthday staying quite busy. Tim drug out the roto-tiller and we tag team tilled and piled the fresh mound of dirt that has really made our garden quite a site. Since it is all fresh dirt - we decided to plant potatoes and just a few other items - and when they are done - maybe we will level it out a bit more.

Buiding a pile of dirt for the garden!

Cleaning up a bit!

Leveled out some!

Tim and Keith built the terrace up some before the rototilling ended.

So after all of that preparation - we (Tim and I) planted some 'taters, tomatoes, lettuce, and a few peppers.  I left him with a bunch of seeds - so we will see what he accomplishes while we are gone haha....

It has been colder than usual and really quite wet - so we were really late getting much of anything done.  The berries have a lot of blooms and the fruit trees had a lot of blossoms on them - but so far - no fruities are showing up. 

We had a little guy come stay with us for about a month - which was pretty neat in itself.  I always enjoy being busy!

Our biggest project has been an addition to our house.  and I will post more on that when it is complete.  It has been a big, big learning experience watching those guys put it together.  An amazing project!  I am excited about seeing the finished project!!!