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!
Last weekend we did another race. Yes, this time Ryan got suckered into running it too! I was pretty excited about this one because I've done it a few times and each time I do a little better, so that was the goal for this year too. I really like the course on this one despite it being mostly an out and back which are normally pretty dull. This one goes out to the Seahawks training facility, through it where the drum line is playing, then back to the start area. Last year I finished as the 10th fastest female with a time of 57:24. I was pretty confident I could run faster this year, so I was hoping to place a little higher too. Turns out there were a lot more people at the race this year, and a lot more fast people, so while I did run faster this year with a time of 55:26, I only placed 15th this year. I also need to remind myself not to consume large amounts of wine the night before a race. I was definitely feeling it around the 5th mile...oops!
