Plan B

I woke up EARLY Monday morning, before the alarm was set to go off. We were leaving for Vegas. Or so I thought.

I am not sure if it was a 24-hour bug, food poisoning or Armageddon; nevertheless, we never made our reservation to Sin City. All on account of me, Sickie McSickster.

I was so disappointed and the kids were so bummed. Nic kept asking when were going on vacation. I had to tell him that we weren’t going to Vegas, but that we would try for a day-trip to Sedona and Slide Rock. And tried we did, this time succeeding. We left Tuesday morning at 7am and made the 2.5 hour drive to artsy-fartsy, yet super beautiful Sedona. To make a long story short, I’ve provided our trip in pictures.

The above picture CRACKS me up. Not sure what they were doing, posing like that. lol...

  Uhem. Isa read the sign AFTER she picked an apple. Tsk Tsk.

All of these pictures are unedited, I simply threw them into a collage. I was feeling a bit lazy today. Especially since we've been painting the house (various rooms) since we got back from Sedona, including the night of.

This was not our first time to Sedona; we took Alex and Isabel when they were 8 and 5. We weren't sure how Nic was going to handle it, but he loved it! It's fun to think about the fact that Slide Rock has been a tourist attraction since the 30s. Think of how many people have gone down the "slide" since then.

While this wasn't a walk down the strip, we got to picnic out in the woods next to a creek - a picnic area called Banjo Bill (first few sets of pictures), and then spent the rest of the afternoon laying on the rocks and playing in the water. The sun felt SOOO good; I was toasty. Until the car ride home. I was the only idiot person to NOT change into dry clothes - "I'm dry enough!" - that with the a/c blowing at full blast for everyone else in the van, I was a Jaimesicle. The moment we pulled into the driveway, I ran upstairs and started a hot bath. And just about died when my new sunburnt parts hit the scalding water. But at least I was thawed out.

We still owe Nic a trip to the M&M Factory, but I think we all enjoyed staying a little closer to home - outside.

Now if I can just get them to agree to let me pick out their clothes for future trips, so that we somewhat match?!?! -- that would be great.