Camping in the Great Outdoors

Well, we decided to make another break for cooler weather up on the Mogollon Rim just east of Payson. We found a great little campsite away from everyone else where we got to relax and read. I had the book "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer which Nathaniel continued to steal from me. Luckily, I won it in a bet and got to read it.

As the sun was setting each night we could hear elk. One evening we heard a pack of coyotes not too far from our campsite. Other than the coyotes and elk there wasn't much around (thankfully, as I heard there are bears in that area), except for the occasional butterfly.

But we had a nice, relaxing, cooler (it was WARM during the day) time as we got to get away for awhile.

Sedona

The weekend of June 12th - 15th, Nathaniel and I headed up for cooler weather in Sedona, AZ. Little did we know that cooler was 92 degrees instead of 109 degrees. We'll take it! We stayed at the Los Abrigados Lodge with this beautiful view of the Sedona red rocks. We got to be tourists, lounge around, and basically enjoy the beautiful scenery. One of the days we went to Tlaquepaque (one of my favorite places in Sedona). There are shops there but I go for the beautiful architecture. It is styled after the traditional Mexican village of Tlaquepaque in Mexico.

While we were there, we went into a little Christmas shop to browse around. We have been looking for over 4 years for a Nativity set that we both like. Well, just inside the door, we saw it.

It is different, but fits us rather well.

On our last day we left Sedona and drove up to Flagstaff and walked around the NAU campus to see the new changes.

On our way to meet some friends, we passed quite a few Corvettes. We wondered what they were up to and decided to follow them. Well, first we had to turn around and find them, so Nathaniel thought about where they would be cruising to... either the road up to Snowbowl or to the Grand Canyon. We found them before they turned up the road to Snowbowl so we decided to follow.

When we got up to the top, we saw about 26 Corvettes total. We climbed out of our corvette and about 7 or 8 of the people came over. They immediately noticed that we were not part of their Corvette club (it could have been the fact that we didn't have name tags on). They were so nice and were excited that we followed them up. They were a club from Prescott and talked to us for quite awhile. They were getting ready to go up the ski lift to the top for lunch so we said our goodbyes.

Notice the little white stow away to the left.

It was great!

Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban Concert

Well, Friday night, Michele calls me and asks what I was doing the next day. I said nothing and she asked if I wanted to go to the Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban concert free. Well I had to think about it, ok not really, YES!




It was at the University of Phoenix stadium where the Cardinals play, so a HUGE venue. Our tickets were in the nose bleed seats:

But who can complain, we got these for FREE!

Both Michele and I had seen Kenny Chesney before. That wasn't the real reason I was excited. I was there to see Gary Allan and Keith Urban. Michele was really nice and bought me a Keith Urban shirt.

Keith Urban definitely put on a better show than Kenny Chesney so it made me love him even more!

I love Gary Allan because he sings a couple of my favorite songs:

"Life Ain't Always Beautiful."

and

a remake of "Best I Ever Had."

See, even from our seats, we could see pretty well (with the help of my digital camera with my larger zoom lens and crop and enlarge...