Saturday - St Patrick's Day

Well, in case you can't tell, we are back from our trip.  We went to Sedona, AZ.  It was soooo pretty up there, but guess who forgot their camera?  Geez!  David brought his and then we bought desposibles.  So I will have to download David's onto my computer and scan the others once they are developed.  I do believe David took them to Walmart last night.

 

Wednesday:  We didn't leave until about 7:00pm and then stopped at Subway on the way out of town.  So we got on the highway at about 7:30pm and pulled into the hotel at 9:30pm.  Not too bad considering that was construction and a lot of traffic on the highway into Sedona.  We had to scope out a Walmart once we got there because when we were about 20miles outside of Sedona we discovered that Caleb's suitcase didn't make it into the truck.  I did a general announcement about 10minutes before we left and said "everybody get their suitcases, pillows and blankets by the front door because we are about to load up."  Well Caleb got his backpack full of toys, but forgot his clothes.  At least he got what was important, huh?  At any rate, the boy got three days worth of a new wardrobe.  Yeah for Walmart is all I can say!

 

Thursday:  The next morning David got up early and went mountain biking.  Once he got back we went hiking for about 2 miles on this trail behind our hotel.  It was so pretty!  Of course Caleb kept whining the whole darn way and I called him a wheeny while all the time I'm huffing and puffing.  I said "here is where I have my chest pain and die of a sudden heart attack".  David said "You're not really having chest pain are you?"  "No...do I look like I'm fixing to have a stroke or something?"  "No...just checking".  I found out just how out of shape I am on this trip, omgosh, let me tell you!  After that we got some lunch and headed out to some Indian ruins.  Pretty cool.  We only got to see one of them because the other site closed at 3:30pm and we hit it about 4:00pm.  Then we all went back to the hotel and recovered and went to dinner at 7:45.  We decided on Mexican and this restaurant sounded good.  I don't know why places have to do this, but when we ordered stuff with chicken in it you could tell they mixed tuna in with the chicken.  They do this to save money and it is gross.  Needless to say hardly anyone ate much.  On the other hand, their margauritas were killer! ;)  After dinner we had to go and get some sunscreen and aloe vera as David & Caleb got a little sunburned while hiking.  Hannah got a little pink, and I was okay.  I don't know why I didn't think about sunscreen, but I didn't.  After that we headed back to the hotel and just crashed.  I think we hiked about 4 miles total that day and that was the most I have exerted myself to that degree in forever.  I feel asleep like a baby!

 

Friday:  David got up early and went mountain biking again while we got up, and packed to check out of the hotel.  When David got back he jumped into the shower and we loaded up and headed out to Montezuma's Castle ruins.  Now this was not really Montezuma's (Aztec King), but named that by the people who discovered it.  It was this house built up on the cliffs by Indians.  It was really neat and I'll definitely have to show you once I get the pictures back.  We then headed back into Sedona for some more sight seeing and went up to this really cool church built on a cliff.  It is called "Chapel of the Holy Cross"  and you can see it for miles away.  It was so pretty inside and calming.  After the chapel, we went into town for some shopping and "lupper".  Once we did all that we drove home and got here about 8:30pm.  I had a migraine so I just went to bed.

 

It was so nice to get away, even if it was only for a couple of days.  We all needed the break.  We liked Sedona so much we plan on returning again, probably during the summer as it will be cooler there.  There was a heat wave up in Sedona while we were there, of course, and it was in the mid-upper 80s depending on where we were.  So much for getting away to cooler weather, ha ha. 

 

Saturday:  So I'm up today around 2:00pm.  Gotta work (oy).  Gotta iron my St Patrick's scrub top.  I hope there aren't too many parties out there cause I'm so not in the mood for drunks tonight, but I think I'm sunk, lol.  It is about 95degrees right now at 4:30pm.  We are supposed to have a cool front Tuesday night, I think, and it will get get into the upper 60s for highs on Wed/Thurs.

 

Ciao and enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I'll catch up with you later.

 

    De ;)

 

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