house guests

After our trail ride down in Black Canyon City, we headed north to a little larger canyon. On Thursday, Suzy and I hiked about halfway down the Bright Angel Trail, to a camp called Indian Gardens where we had lunch and a little sit down. It was 4.5 miles each way. Let me tell you, the hike back up seemed WAY longer!! It took us 2.5 hours to hike down and 3.5 hours to hike back up. Lots of breaks to catch our breath. I think we made good time! I didn't feel like lugging the D70, so Suzy took all the pics. When I get some, I will post.

Here we are Cathedral Rock. I know I keep posting pics of it, but it is a beautiful place, and really easy to get to.

When you hand the camera to strangers, you don't always get the picture you were thinking about. I personally would have included the rock in the background. Oh well. I'm not lacking in Cathedral Rock photos. By the way, I found a hat. It was the one I had seen last summer at a Dairy Queen up north of Sedona in Oak Creek canyon. Yee Ha!

The three amigos. The sun was in everyone's eyes. They had a good time together. My boys were sad to see Ben leave, but glad their friend got to come and see where they live, meet some friends, hang out and do AZ stuff.

I have no idea what this non picture is about. If I could figure out how to cut it, I would. Now that I published the post, the picture showed up, but I can't seem to cut it. Oh well. Three amigos time two!

We were up in Jerome in front of the Gold King Mine, when the Hummingbirds were all over this one feeder. Pretty cool. I put a feeder outside our front window. I saw a hummingbird near it the other day, but not at it. I might have to move it to a tree or something.

Besides our house guests, we had some day visitors in the past couple weeks. Karen came up on her way to Flagstaff to visit her sister, and bought this Goddess pendant9among other things). It was great to see her, and get caught up on Dawes(she is the principal there). I forgot to get a picture for the blog-sorry Karen!! Thanks for stopping by. Next time I will remember to pull out the D70(i have been slacking a little lately).

In between our trail ride and the Grand Canyon, my long time friend Dorothe' and her two daughters, Lillian and Ann Marie stopped for a quick visit. They were staying in Sedona. The girls enjoyed the baby chicks, and had fun with the boys. While they were here, the pool guy came to start up the pool, so it was a little crazy. Again, I forgot to get some pics-Sorry!!

So, we had a great time with our house guests. It was the first time we had people stay for that length of time(besides family), and it worked out really well. I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time.

Thanks for coming out guys!! I hope you visit again. The pool will be ready for sure-and warm :)

Thanks to everyone for purchasing all the jewelry-enjoy!!