April 27, 1988
Sunny 70
Car traveling to Phoenix
Today we woke up at 7:00 and got ready, packed out and ate breakfast. We left at 9:00 exactly and stopped for gas at 90th S. went to the bathroom and we’re on our way. We stopped at Cedar City for gas and lunch at J.B.’s about 1:30. We traveled until Fredonia, went to the bathroom and bought a map. We stopped at an Indian stand and mom bought us each a bracelet. At Flagstaff we got gas again & ate at the Adobe grill, it was pretty good. So we finally got in Phoenix and found the Doubletree Suites and checked in about 10:30, but 11:30 our time. We got room 536 but there was only one king size bed and a couch, so we might have to move tomorrow. Love,
B
April 28, 1988
Sunny 93
Phoenix
Today we got up and ready to switch to room 531 that had 2 queen beds and a couch. Then we ate at Bob’s for breakfast and then we checked in at the tower plaza rink for Darlin’s competition info. She has figures at 10:00 and freestyle at 7:50 p.m. Friday. Then we skated at Metro rink & saw Angie, Shawna, Stu, Christine, and met some the skaters Darlin is going to be competiting with in the competition; Kim, Becky, Amy, Elissa, Loree & Kathleen and they are all older than her. Then we ate at Luby’s cafeteria that was so good. Then we watched Darlin do patch and went to Bayless for lots of good food and fruit and grocery stuff. Then we came home and got in the Jacuzzi and pool for awhile and went to bed early for the “Big Day!” Love,
B
April 29, 1988
This morning I woke-up about 5:30, just when Mom & Dad were taking Darlin to her 6:00 a.m. patch practice. I feel back asleep until they came back at 7:30 and ate some fruit and juice for breakfast. Since Darlin can’t have protein at all today, we decided not to either. We all got ready and went to Darlin’s figures. So I told her good luck and just sat and watched. She warmed up and did her first figure pattern really good and her second kind of wiggly. She took first in the first one and second overall! We went home for a 3 hour nap and swam for about an hour, then got ready again, ate at Furr’s (yuck!) Darlin practiced until 7:00 and got ready then she warmed up and stayed warm until it was time to put her skates on at 7:45. I told her good luck again and watched as she warmed up. She skated a perfect program and we were all so excited and she won 1st place!!! Love,
B
April 30, 1988
Hot 95
I was so excited I couldn’t finish writing last night. We took her pictures with her trophy and went out to dinner at Marie Calendar’s to celebrate. Darlin was too tired to eat almost. So we went home and Darlin found enough energy to swim for an hour. Then we slept in this morning and ate the free breakfast and spent all day by the pool. Dad brought us back McDonald’s after he watched Jennifer win in her group. Then we got ready and went and cheered Christine and Shannon on – Christine got 4th in long, 6th overall and Shannon took 2nd! Love,
B
May 1, 1988
Windy 65
Today we woke up and weren’t going to swim we were all so burnt!!! But we got in our swimsuits and ate the yummy free breakfast at T. Salter’s. Then we swam with our friends Shannon and Christine until it got cold and windy. Then we got all ready and packed up. As we were loading into the car Shannon and Christine came over to say bye and tell us that after they took Christine to the airport at 2:00 they were driving to Paige and hoped that we would stay in the same hotel. We were on our way to Pinnacle Peak’s – the steak house that dad had been raving about for years and boy was he right! It was so, so, so, good!!! We got to Paige about 9:30 and about the third hotel that we checked was where Shannon was staying- it was the Four Seasons Inn. By! Love,
B