Yes desert...not dessert. My parents had booked a week in Arizona several months ago and invited any of us to come along if we had time. I figured I'd be caught up in work by then, so I didn't think of it. The week before the were going they asked me again if I wanted to join them for a few days. Since I'm pretty free at the moment, I decided to go! I went monday through friday of last week. I arrived Monday afternoon and we went straight out to be tourists...sort of. We hit up the phoenix library so I could check out the architecture of it. We studied it briefly in architecture school, so I wanted to see it in person.
After a quick dinner at a pretty awesome little bar with a perfect patio for a warm Arizona evening, we headed over to Uncle John and Aunt Susan's house where we followed them over to meet up with my cousin Lindsay and her kids to watch her son Dylan's baseball game. It was so cute watching him play...and he was really good!
Tuesday we spent an awesome day at the pool!! There's something about just laying next to a beautiful pool in the hot sun. It was so relaxing!
What's almost as awesome as soaking up the sun?? Shopping. That's what we did for the rest of the day when it got a little too toasty to be sitting in the sun. Great start to a vacation ;)
Wednesday, after a little work out and pool relaxing in the morning, we hopped in the car and headed out to Sedona. I really wanted to go see the red rock mountains so my parents were kind enough to take me.
Being a nerdy architect, one of the things I wanted to see out there was the Chapel of the Holy cross which is built on the side of one of the mountains. It was pretty cool to see up close.
After watching an amazing sunset over the mountains and grabbing some food, we headed back to our resort and crashed. It was a long day of sight seeing and sunshine! Thursday we started out again with a little working out and relaxing by the pool! It never gets old ;)
Yes there was a water slide there too that we all took advantage of ;) Thursday night was the big party night! Unfortunately I was too distracted catching up that I forgot to take any pictures :( We went over to Uncle John and Aunt Susan's house where we were joined with all of my cousins, their spouses, and all their kids! I hadn't met 3 of the little kids before, so it was great to finally get to see them all in person! We had so much fun watching all the little ones run around and catching up! It was a great way to end my little vacation. I headed home Friday morning. Thanks mom and dad for a great last minute vacation!
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