I'd been seeing lots of people's pictures at Sedona and I've wanted to go for awhile. We planned a 5 day trip over our 6 year anniversary, with the kids of course, lol.
We traveled on August's birthday, we had celebrated a few days before with friends and family. I picked him up a slice of cake from the grocery store and brought our "4" candle, and we sang again :)
The view from our airbnb:
First hike, Cathedral Rock. Gorgeous.
We went up to about that high tree line, then it seemed too dangerous to go further with the kids on our backs. Still beautiful.
Chapel of the Cross
Bell Rock path, probably our least favorite hike, just long and deserty. We went to the base of the formation, BUT I think if we would've wrapped around it we could've went up a bit? That might have made it more cool, but we were too tired at the time.
Went to Walnut Canyon National Monument and saw the ruins/dwellings in the cliffs
I touched that prickly pear and had 2 splinters in my finger!
Delicious salad/sandwich at Wildflower Cafe, but my favorite meal was at Picazzio's Healthy Italian Kitchen.
Slide Rock, looked so neat in the brochures, but that was probably for when Sedona is in the 100s, it was very cold when we visited!
The hike at West Fork was probably our favorite, towering cliffs, fall colors, 13 stream crossings, beautiful.
We tried 3x to do the airport overlook hike, just kept missing it as the sun set at 5:30pm and we'd always be starting out too late. Glad we finally got it.
Mini-celebration for our 6th year!
Last hike: Boynton Canyon, part forest-part desert, and long and hard
Made it to the end!
All hot, dirty, and sweaty
Seeing these wild Javelina made Doug and August's day
On the way to the airport we stopped at Montezuma's Castle. I wish someone would make a life-size replica that people could actually walk through, how cool would that be!?!
Neat to look at still.
We had our typical run through the airport to our gate, so fun with children on your backs, and masks (not!), but we made it and had no issues at all coming home. Nice.
Thankful for a good trip, and praying for the future of our country that God will bless and lead whoever gets chosen for the next 4 years!
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