Last weekend was the Verde Valley Fair. The kids actually got Friday off of school, so we went on Friday. typical carnival, we got the kids bracelets, so they could ride all they wanted. of course, this jumpy thing was not included with the bracelets, so an extra $5.00 per kid. I think carnivals are one the fastest ways to empty your wallet. We did get out of there without playing any games...

OK, I had never seen these before...Frozen pickle juice! I thought they were gross, but Max's friend Chance liked them, and had at least two.

Didn't have any famous lamonade, but Max got a deep fried twinkie.

In addition to the Twinkie, Max had curly cheese fries for dinner. Eric and I had BBQ pork sandwiches, Doug had nachos, and Chance had a giant pickle. He was on a pickle binge :-)

That's the deep fried Twinkie. They also had deep fried Oreos and Snicker bars. You gotta love carnival food!!

Max and Chance finished out the night on The Zipper. I recently got a new camera, so I had to check out the night time setting. Not bad. It is waterproof, so stay tuned for some underwater pics....

Long Time Friends

Our latest set of visitors were Marcia and Danny. Long time friends I hung out with in Junior high and high school, and hadn't seen them since high school. We all reconnected through Facebook, which, by the way, if you haven't joined, i highly recommend, but that's another post. Anyway, Marcia and Danny came out together, leaving both their spouses at home, and becoming travelling buddies for the weekend.
We had a BLAST reminiscing, eating, shooting, and siteseeing. Our sightseeing day began in Sedona. This is Bell Rock. We didn't climb it that day, too much to do :-)

These are out of sequence, but whatever. Saturday, we began our day with a little shooting lesson. Danny is shooting the 9mm here. Eric is a certified instructor.

No visit would be complete without a trip to Cathedral Rock! Danny actually went swimming that day. We did all our sightseeing in one day. We spent Saturday haning out by the pool :-)

After Sedona, we drove up the hill to Jerome, and got some killer chocolate cake From the Haunted hamburger. Marcia took all the pics, so none from Jerome this time ;-)

The Century plants are blooming now. Part of the Agave family, they bloom once in their lifetime, sending up a huge shoot that produce clusters of flowers. the shoot takes all the energy out of the plant, eventually killing it. The plant then tips over and spreads it seeds, beginning the process over again.

I'm gonna start collecting century plant pics, stay tuned...