Spawn of Glendale!

Todd McFarlane, inventory of comic book hero "Spawn" and legendary toy designer had a new flagship store opening up out in Glendale (on the far west edge of Phoenix) at the Westgate Center so we decided to go check it out. As we drove there we realized that when we first came to Phoenix over a year ago, Sally had interviewed with a school out here, and we had driven by the Westgate Center and nearby "University of Phoenix" stadium when they were just at the foundation level! How time flies.

Little did we know until we arrived, but McFarlane's store only opened up last Friday, and bar a few restaurants, it is one of the first stores to open in the Westgate Center! That left us wondering around in this gigantic and beautiful outdoors mall that didn't have anything or anybody in it, which felt very weird. It was kinda like watching some 60's European scifi movie where there is only 1 person left alive on earth! Endless buildings all immaculately empty. Kinda like finding the Marie Celeste I guess? Well without the mystery...

Anyway it looks like theres a bunch of cool stores going to be there so we'll have to drive back in a few months and check it out. I'm happy just because there's going to be a Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville here. If you remember our Vegas trip, we ended up in a Margaritaville one night with Tracey, Bren, Bowe & Noranne, and my personal highlight was the girl in a bikini who slides down an erupting volcano into a giant margarita. I thought that kinda thing only happened in my dreams, and maybe the occasional "Something Weird" video ;-) Jimmy Buffet may make crap music, but he sure knows how to compensate on the stage show!