Vacation!!!!

First to start out, we took the tree down about a week ago.

 with the help of this and drill bits, a drywall saw, and pick and shovel. (and the truck to pull it over)

Here's how our vacation started out:

We got stuck for 1 hour 20 minutes on the freeway because someone decided to drive off the road down a cliff and kill themselves. So the long wait was for the police to measure everything and take pictures, a helicopter to come out and leave right away, and wait for a coroner to come out and say "Yup! they're dead..." and than we could go.
Couldn't quite figure out how they would decide to go from the inside lane to the outside lane and straight off a cliff, almost perpendicular to the road, barely missing the guardrail by about 2 feet.....  I'd have rather just hit the guardrail... But I guess people are entitled to their own decisions.


While we were stopped, I had to entertain the dog. He went potty 3 times in front of everyone stopped, took me on a tour of the median between the freeway lanes, scared a tiny little spoiled chihuahua  doing the same thing, (the poor tiny dog poofed up a tiny little ridge along it's spine, and growled with it's tail between it's legs) poor thing.

Anyways, while we were investigating the median, I happened to feel my foot sink into the ground into a tarantula lair (mind you I was wearing my cute flip flops) and I was very frightened to see a tarantula lunge out towards my bare foot! My reaction caused another stranded motorist to come investigate and he took pictures of the tarantula: (I did too- after all, I found it)

PEEEEUUUUUU!!!!!

Oh I was shaking for a while!
P.U.!

After we started going again, It started raining.
After we reached the cabin, we had maybe a 20 minute wait cause we grabbed the wrong set of keys and had to wait for the rest of the group to show up. It got dark not long after.

But when we finally got out the next morning, oh the beautiful sights!!!! So many pretty flowers!  I especially love these dark red ones!

are these elderberries?

 ooooh! so pretty! these were a dark orange variety of the dark red ones.

My mother-in-laws pretty lilies

 beautiful stream ( I don't know who or what put that flower there -it was there when we walked up.)

We went on a tour of downtown Flagstaff, did some shopping at crowded Target, ( I think Saturday is THE DAY to go shopping there in Flagstaff) But I LOVE Target! We bought out their selection of candy and ice cream.

And guess what supper was? Spaghetti the first night, second night, Quesadillas! MMMMMMMMM!

Here's the monster taking a walk by the stream this morning! So fun! It's so pretty down there, and with the monster dog crashing through, you don't get much time to smell the flowers, but.... hee hee I video-ed him!!!!

AND..... on the way home, I ate the chocolate off of the rest of my 3 musketeers mini candy bars and then ate all the fillings last!!!! MMMMMMMMMMM! yep, I stuck them sticky and all on my purse. (HEY! my purse is washable, the car not so easily.)

So, that was my vacation. And now I'm home in my wonderfully clean house- I scrubbed it before I left.
I had a wonderful time, and hope you had a good weekend as well.
Trisha.