Thanksgiving in Arizona

We spent our Thanksgiving Break in Scottsdale Arizona with Richard's sister Carolyn, it was a lot of fun. We left at about 11am on Tuesday when I got off of work and we got there by about 8:30pm. It was great to get there that early, we were thinking we would get there around ten. Google maps was not very reliable, it said it would take 10 1/2 hours but we made it in 9 1/2 . :) This is us taking a break at the scenic view...we think that is part of the Grand Canyon in the background...anybody know for sure???
The weather was beautiful! Carolyn and Chad kept saying what a bummer it was that we came on this week because it had started cooling down for that week and then was gonna be nice again the next week, but being from Utah we were more than happy with the 65 degree weather! It felt great compared to the 50 degrees we had been used to. We even went swimming on Friday! Woohoo! Swimming during Thanksgiving Break now that is the good life!

Wednesday we went shopping to get everything that we needed for Thanksgiving dinner, since there was only four of us we decided against a turkey and went with a rotisserie chicken instead. The main thing that we focused on was PIE (as long as there was potatoes and stuffing I was happy and all Carolyn cared about was her pie). We made six...yes SIX for four people! Haha! Needless to say we spent the entire weekend eating pie. We had to chocolate, one banana cream, one pumpkin, one cherry, and huge Apple Crisp (which we are counting as a pie).

We played many games of Outburst and it was very fun, we enjoyed it and I enjoyed getting to know Carolyn because I haven't really been able to spend much time with her before. And we also got to know her boyfriend, Chad, which was a lot of fun.

Thursday we just spent the day eating, watching movies, and playing games, it was GREAT!

Friday we did the same. :)

Saturday Chad didn't have to work so we spent the whole day doing lots of fun things. First, we went hiking (which I don't love, but Richard's family loves hiking as does Chad so I tried to be a good sport...I failed a little...). We did a hike called Camelback and there was a lot of people hiking it. We only made it about 2/3 of the way because I was dying and so everybody was very nice and willing to turn around there. This is how much I enjoy hiking...Here is me and Richard with Carolyn's dog Shredder. This is as far as we got on the hike.
All four of us...After hiking and eating lunch we went and saw the new James Bond Movie "Quantum of Solace" it was fun. Especially because Scottsdale has a 5 dollar theater! And it has brand new movies!!! Provo needs one of those!!!!

After relaxing for a while we went to a big huge shopping complex in Scottsdale (expensive stores) to look at the lights. It was fun to feel the Christmas spirit! :)

Me and RichardRichard and CarolynThe Thanksgiving Break was great, but unfortunately it had to end. We headed back to Utah at 10am. We took a stop at the Glen Canyon Dam (the dam that makes Lake Powell) because Richard being the Civil Engineer that he is wanted to look at it (especially because they had just been talking about it in one of his classes). While in the visitor's center we found out that they give tours where you can go inside of the dam. I had no desire to do this but Richard did, so he went and I decided it would be more fun to sit outside and talk on the phone (don't worry, it was warm outside). So our five minute stop turned into 1 1/2 hours (we got there at 2:30 but the tour didn't start til 3 and then it was 45 minutes long). But we still got home by 9:15 so we considered the trip a success and Richard was very happy that he got to do his tour.