We went to Arizona last week and had a lot of fun. We were able to go for 10 days, of course it was HOT, and this was my first trip on an airplane! I had tons of fun! (Hannah, on the other hand didn't like it to much!) But we made it through!
Chris served his mission in Mesa and surrounding areas so we got to see old neighborhoods and places he remembered. It was nice to finally see what he talks about.
Our first stop was the Mesa Temple. Very beautiful! We also went and saw the Joseph Smith movie in the visitor center there and loved it!
This is Camel Back Mountain. We tried to climb it...Hahaha! We were only 20 min from the top, but it started getting late and we did not want to climb back down in the dark. There are parts on this mountain you basically rock climb! It was hard! I won't lie! I am way out of shape! But very beautiful and fun! Hannah did very well!
(look how huge my boobs look! Man, i need a reduction!)
So on two parts of the climb they have added these railings for you to hold on to as you go up! I wouldn't have made it without them!
Here is Chris and Hannah feeling hot and taking a rest!
A beautiful view!
The next adventure was seeing the Desert Botanical Gardens. They had many different cactus and desert plants there to see.
It was fun, but hot and as you can see Hannah does not like Hot weather! We had to leave early! Poor girl!
One of our favorite parts was Sedona. It is up in the red rock country and absolutely breathtaking! I was able to get a cool Turquoise ring while we were there!
These rock chairs are about $8,000.00 each!
This was a huge highlight to our little adventure in Sedona!! This is a Tarantula Wasp dragging a paralyzed Tarantula!! Look how HUGE that thing is! I guess what it does is sting and paralyze the Tarantula, then drag it back to it's home, lay it's eggs in the spider, then when the eggs hatch they eat the Tarantula! Gross!!
Chris and our friend Ben got out to take pictures and the wasp actually challenged them. It started flying around the car......me and Hannah safely shut inside!! We left at that point, but crazy wild life huh??
We did have lots of fun! Arizona was great and it was nice to get away! The main thing I noticed about the difference between Oregon heat and dry heat was that in Arizona if you would step into the shade you were instantly cooler! Even if a cloud would cover the sun you would feel cooler!
Hope you enjoyed the pics!
