Back from N. Arizona!

We are back from our trip to Phoenix, Sedona, and Flagstaff, Arizona. If you'd like to see pictures from our trip, click on the title to this post. -Jake

It's great to be back and see the kids, but I'm not sure I was ready to leave Arizona. I was amazed by the beauty of the northern part of that state. We kept active the whole trip. I guess we aren't people who sit by the pool while on vacation. One day we climbed a mountain north of Sedona called Wilson Mountain. It ended up being a tough hike, though it started out quite easy. There were some parts going up that had me in a panic. (I don't like heights). One slip of the foot and you'd be hurtled down the mountain. I took it slow and hugged the side of the mountain in those areas. We got to the top a few hours after starting and it was definitely worth the trip. The views were spectacular. We didn't see one bit of wildlife, amazingly. A few years ago, someone left a campfire burning on the mountain and it caused a huge forest fire. There were thousands of scorched trees, but it was still very pretty. The next day we went to another lookout point north of Sedona and noticed it was the opposite trail head of Wilson Mountain (there are two trailheads, we took the the northern one.) There was a monument dedicated to the man Wilson, for whom the mountain was named after. Turns out he was killed by a grizzly on that very mountain. I'm glad I didn't see that sign before climbing the day before, or I might have been a little more fearful. I don't think there are grizzlies there anymore though. We had many other adventures, but that's just a little sampling of one of our days. -Ali