Monday, August 29, 2011

"We went skydiving" you know the Tim McGraw song :)

Breakfast fit for Champions
Loosening up before the big jump!!
We have been so busy this weekend working, I completely forgot to blog about our amazing skydiving adventure!!!  It was sooooo incredible! But, I shall start from the beginning. I worked Thursday night (Hayley didn't sleep much either), so when I got off, we decided to first head to eat a breakfast for champions (since we were about to conquer the sky and all). We headed to Black Bear Diner where we both had a new york strip, breakfast potatoes, fresh fruit and a HUGE biscuit! Exactly what I was wanting! All that was missing was some cheese grits! Oh well, on to Skydiving.
Hayley and Rafeal
Me and R2
Me Free Falling

Hayley Free Falling
We plugged the address into the GPS, and of course, got lost heading there. I ended up calling the place and his first words were: "take the gps, roll down your window, and throw it out." Geez, what a comedian. We finally made it, only took about 45 minutes, and paid for our skydiving adventure. No turning back now. We met our tandem instructors (our lives were in their hands). Mine was R2, guess he's a star wars fan, and Hayley's was Rafeal, from Brazil. Actually he never told us his name, but it could have been Rafeal, right? Anyway, we met them, got suited up, and headed to wait for the plane. Oh yeah during the meet and greet part, we also signed our life away. So we piled into the plane, a true "crop duster" as Hayley would say, and headed up to 13,000 ft above sea level! It got cold up there! Of course R2 and I were the first to jump, so the two of us and my camera guy headed to the edge to look out. If I was afraid of heights, I might have passed out!  Then 1-2-3 JUMP! We were out and completely free falling to our doom. It was the most amazing feeling I have ever felt!  After about a minute, the parachute came out and we just floated to the ground.  I even to got steer a little!  The landing was even fun. Landed straight on my bum. I can't say for sure what Hayley thought, but since we both couldn't stop talking about it the whole way home, I'd say she loved it just as much as I did!
Can't wait for our next adventure to Yosemite!!!

Hayley and Elizabeth

Saturday, August 13, 2011

The San Francisco Treat

A little background of beginning of the week:
Us and the Golden Gate
Bridge!!!!!!
Sorry, but gonna be a long one, San Fran was AWESOME!!!!  So all week long Hayley and I had been planning our San Francisco trip! Wednesday afternoon we booked our trip and were planning to leave around 11:30 am yesterday morning.  We were both off Monday, so we went shopping to find some sweaters, or just something new in general to wear, but no winter clothes were out yet. At H&M I found a jacket I really liked, but unfortunately I decided against giving it (bad idea). While in Macy's I accidentally bumped into one of the workers, said excuse me and went on my way. She then followed me a little to close and I bumped into her again, and she told me to let her finish doing her job and then I could try on scarfs and hats, and that she didn't care if we bought anything or not.  Excuse me? Yeah Hayley was soo upset (so wish i had a camera), and we told her boss that she needed to take some customer service classes. Any who, I ended up buying a scarf, we ate dinner at BJ's (very good) and then home. I worked Tuesday-Thursday, then off for San Fran on Friday.  Well Thursday night at work, I got an email saying our tour had been canceled!  WHAT??!!  We had no clue what we were going to do. Hayley was at home so she researched Alcatraz, but everything was booked. We decided we would just head to Fisherman's Warf and try to find a tour day of.

Friday Morning:
First Picture off the train
Okay so I get home around 7:45 (my first busy night at work, made the night go by fast though!) and Hayley was finally asleep ( we text till like 5) and I tried to sleep.  I looked at my phone around 9:30 and was still wide awake. About 10:40 I got up (maybe got about 45 min of sleep) got ready and we were off to San Fran! We stopped back at the mall so I could get the jacket I had been thinking about all week (yup, the one from H&M)! Yes, I know I'm a dork, but it was soooo cute!  Anyway, we plugged in the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transportation) station into Kieren, and headed on to San Fran!  Once we got to the Pleasanton BART we had to figure out where to catch the train.  After walking in circles about 10 min we figured it out. Then to buy our ticket we had to ask an attendant bc it kept making us get a $20 ticket (should have been $11). So we got that straight and headed to on. Once in the train, we encountered a few strange people.  One older man with his looked like he belonged with George Washington (you know the white hair and ponytail), then there was another dude with his bike (Monkey dude). Apparently he thought is was hot stuff, bc he didn't have a shirt on and started doing pull ups on the railing and hanging on by one hand while we were moving. We just thought he was dumb and totally wish we had gotten a picture. I mean who does that?? So once we finally made it into San Francisco, we had to figure out how to get to Fisherman's Warf!

Friday Afternoon:
Such a tense game!
I typed in Fisherman's Warf on my GPS and we started our 1.6 mile hike! (literally a hike up and down hills). We headed through Chinatown. In our opinion, this was just a big cluster! A million people, one Chinese restaurant after another and then in between those, store that were selling pure junk!  The only cool part was a park where people were gathered playing Chinese checkers.  People were crowded around 2 or 3 that were playing.  Everyone was concentrating very hard, and there were tons of spectators watching it all (like us).
Alamo Square and the Pretty Ladies
Finally we made it to Fisherman's Warf and found the same tour agency that had canceled our first tour (it still went so I guess it was just overbooked). We were able to get a 2 hour tour of San Fran that went to the Golden Gate Bridge, so we were happy! So glad we didn't have to wing it, bc we probably wouldn't have seen ANYTHING! Our tour guide Danny from Honduras was great!  He was very informative and funny!  We were able to see many of the famous landmarks: Lombard St,  Union Square, Alamo Square and the Pretty Ladies, Golden Gate Park, and of course the Golden Gate Bridge! Along the way from Pier 39 to the Golden Gate Bridge, I think temperature dropped about 20 degree and the wind gusts increased about 15 mph! We were glad to get back to Pier 39 (even though only 64 degrees it was sooo much warmer :)!! We went to a souvenir shop and picked up a few things, went and saw the sea lions on the Pier 39 planks and headed to dinner!

Friday Evening:
Our drinks and appetizer
We were told that the F Line cable cars would take us right to Pier 1 1/2 where the restaurant La Mar was. We waited about 30 minutes while talking to our moms (we love our mama's). A cable car came, but didn't pick anyone up. The looked like sardines packed in there (about like our car on the way from AZ to CA). We heard someone say the next one would be there for 20 min so we decided just to walk. It was only 0.6 miles. OMG, I think my feet died few times by the time we finally made it to La Mar. Although our feet were killing us, we did walk through some pretty neighborhoods and along the bay.  We saw the double decker bay bridge up close and it was so cool to see cars driving on it!  We made it to La Mar and I new I wanted to try a Pisco Sour.  All my Peruvian friends have told me its so good so I just had to see for myself!  They were right :) Hayley got a Pisco Punch, and it was very good too! Our appetizer was homemade potato chips, sweet potato chips, and some other kind of potato with 3 different sauces. Very good!  For dinner I had a sampler of empanadas (chicken, steak, corn, and mushrooms). Hayley had skirt steak skewers,  some kind of potato and some corn. Both entrees were delish! A couple next to us informed us on how to get back the BART station. As we were leaving the restaurant, we passed a roller blade gang! Not kidding, they had two people with speakers in a baby stroller and they were jammin' out as they skated along the sidewalk!  I have NEVER seen anything like it!  One of them even told us to try it one Friday night as she passed by. The things you'll see in San Francisco, hahaha. Anyway, we made it back to the station, rode the train back to Pleasanton, found the car and finally made it back home! We both crashed and didn't wake up until this afternoon! We had soo much fun!  I can't wait til' our next adventure!

Cheers to an AWESOME day!
~Hayley and Elizabeth~

Monday, August 8, 2011

Well this week has been full of work. I actually worked Mon-Fri 12 hour shifts, and Hayley has worked Mon-tonight, with only Fri off, also 12 hour shifts. Monday was a full day of hospital orientation.  We arrived at 730am to the hospital lobby and left about 615pm. The whole day was nothing but a unorganized blunder.  The first half of the day we filled out paperwork (that we had already previously finished) and had a respiratory fit test (TB mask). I think we did about 15 min of actual work. Then we had a computer class in which none of the computers actually worked. We had several people come and speak to us (boring!), and then ended the day getting our computer and pyxis (medication distribution system) passwords. We actually left orientation more confused than when we arrived. It was like there was absolutely no communication between the teachers.  Great way to run a hospital, right?! Anyway, the next two days, Hayley and I both had floor orientation. The floors were run about the same as other hospitals as far as assessments, and medication distribution times, but the computer system was ancient. It reminds me of the DOS computers we had in elementary school with the green typing, playing organ trail. Totally not user friendly, but I think we are finally getting the hang of it.  Friday, I was floated to Hayley's floor, but unfortunately she was not working that night :( So, as y'all can see, it has been a pretty boring week of working. Tonight I have been looking up fun stuff to do around Modesto/San Fran. I also decided to try something new, and dye my hair brown. It came out kinda dark, but maybe it will fade! I also watched True Grit earlier, which was a pretty good movie, but make sure you have the volume turned up when you watch it because they talk "western." A little bit hard to understand. Tomorrow is 1 of 2 of our only days off together until Aug 24, so we are going to do what we do best, SHOP! Well hope this week is awesome for everyone! Till, next time,

Hayley and Elizabeth

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Crazy trip to Modesto, CA

packed in like sardines
We start a new assignment on Aug 1 (tomorrow), as a new chapter in our blog! So, our trip to Modesto, CA started out like any other trip.  We arrived at the MGM airport about 7:45, checked our luggage, said our goodbyes to the parentals, and boarded the plane.  Luckily we sat together on this "crop duster", as Hayley calls it (she doesn't like flying, unlike me!). Once we got to ATL, we had just enough time to use the facilities, grab a deli to go, and board the plane.  We both brought a movie to watch on our laptops, so the time passed pretty fast.  I watched "The Wrestler" and Hayley watched "Hallpass."  Both were good!  Once we landed back in Phoenix, our friend Corinne (who so amazingly kept my car) was there to pick us up.  Once we got back to her house, we gave her Conecuh sausage that we promised to bring, and she made us SWEET TEA!  We visited for a while, then stuffed our luggage into the car and were on our way!

Bumper to Bumper traffic on
the I-10 in California
We started out smooth sailing, able to go 80mph (speed limit 75 mph).  Soon we made it to Sunny California! We passed a border patrol, and we were really hoping the weren't going to ask what all was in the car, because we honestly couldn't remember with all that crap packed up.  So there we were going down the I-10 and then all of a sudden, bumper to bumper traffic for 3 hours, yes I said 3 HOURS!  We went a total of 6 miles in 3 hours.  While we were creeping along, we saw several people jump out of their cars and urinate along the interstate median behind bushes.  These weren't Alabama full, with lots of leaves, bushes, these are California see-through, bare bushes!  I guess if you gotta go, you gotta go (3 hours in traffic and drinking coke could do it I guess).  Anyway, finally we were forced exit the interstate into the middle of Nowhere, CA, with no gas station in site!  So, I called my mom so she could see where we were, and we figured out we were at least 75-90 miles from the nearest gas station!  Good thing we still had half a tank of gas!  We drove through nothing for about 1.5 hours until finally getting to a down called 29 palms, got gas, some water and snacks, and got back on the road.  Mom told us there was a decent size town with hotels about another 1.5 hours away, so we decided that would be where we stopped.  We found a Comfort Inn (with free breakfast!) and decided to stay there.  By the time we settled in it was midnight pacific time, so we had been up almost 24 hours!

The next morning we got up, ate breakfast (grabbed some fruit for the road) and headed out!  Another 6 hour day of driving ahead for us!  Along the way we drove passed the second largest Windmill farm in the world, with over 5000 Windmills in Mojave, CA.  It was pretty cool! Finally we made it to Modesto around 4 pm (after a 14-ish hour car ride instead of 10-ish hour), found our apt and found it 86 degrees, with the air conditioner not working!!!!!!!!!! We decided maybe it need to be left on a little bit, so we unloaded the car, unpacked our stuff, took showers, and still no AIR!  Still 84 degrees!  I called our apt manager, then the maintenance guy (and left a message), and we decided to go get a few things from Big Lots (fan for Hayley) and get some dinner!  We ate at Uno Chicago Grill. Once we got home, still no answer from maintenance man, so Hayley called and left a message this time.  We opened all the windows in the apt (had cooled off to about 65 degrees outside) hoping it would cool off!  I remember waking up sometime in the wee early morning, to me no sweating anymore!  Whew, at least it cooled off some!

Today, we woke up and went driving around.  We made it downtown (a little nicer than Montgomery) and found a sports bar to eat lunch (Hayley got to watch the end of the NASCAR race).  Then went to Walmart and decided to NEVER go there on a Sunday afternoon again.  Everyone in the entire city was there!!!!  The maintenance man never called back, so we called once again, this time getting him!  When he got here he let us know it was frozen, and for us to turn it off, wait 3 hours to turn it back on, and to call the office in the morning!  AAARRRGGG!!!!!  So now we are sitting around sweating in our new 80 degrees apt!  I really hope they fix it tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!  Tomorrow, we go to our 12 hour orientation and then hopefully start on the floor in the next couple of days at Memorial Medical Center!  Catch y'all later

Hayley and Elizabeth

Monday, May 30, 2011

Handcuffs and Cops

Okay, so we have yet to blog about our actual patient care (work), just the awesome places we have visited (our vacay).  Apparently some people think we are out here only on vacay, so let me tell you about one wild night at work.:)

My friend Edwin told me my blogs are too long and boring, so I will make this one short and sweet!  About two weeks ago, our night started out pretty normal: we had our  night "huddle", got report and got started. Having prisoners is a very common occurrence at this hospital. Well one particular prisoner was very unhappy with his care for the day, and decided he was going to "go off the deep end." Susan, our charge nurse, was kicked out of his room and "fired" from being his nurse, after he used a few thousand f-bombs on her, so his amazing self got passed on to Hayley.  Hayley didn't even set both feet in the door before she got cussed and kicked out. Each prisoner has 2 guards at the bedside at all times, has shackles to both feet and hands, as well as a chain around his waste hooked to the hand shackles. How this prisoner managed to get out of his handcuffs, I'm not sure, but the guard pulled his gun!  Talk about craziness!!  The Goodyear police department was called, and no lie, I think about 8-10 cops showed up (Hayley I think fell in love a couple of times, haha just kidding).  Was that really necessary?  I think not.  One of the cops even had an AK-47 (okay not really sure what kind of gun it was, but it was HUGE!)  It's not like this lunatic had any kind of weapon or anything. So eventually they calmed the guy down, and sent him to isolation.  Oh yeah, I forgot, our director got scared and decided to lock himself in his office.  Geez what a night!  So, that is one of our more crazy nights.

~Hayley and Elizabeth

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Leah Came to Visit!

Simba :)

After 2 months of anticipation, one of my best friends from home finally made her visit come true!  Leah flew in to Sky Harbor Airport around 2 o'clock on Thursday April 21, and our 5 day extravaganza began! First stop, Phoenix Wildlife Park.  All my colleagues at work told Hayley and me the wildlife park was far more interesting than the Phoenix Zoo, however, they must have really like birds, because that's all that was there.  Okay, not really, but there were birds all over the place.  I was soo upset I couldn't see the lions and tigers up close.  We did get to see a cute baby cub though! Also, there were also baby leopards and war hogs :)  Connected to the Wildlife Park was an aquarium, which of course had tons of fish.  My favorite part, however, was the penguins!
All the girls


As we left and headed back to the apartment, Dee said she couldn't remember if she had frozen the meat we were going to cook out that night. Once we got home, it was confirmed, meat was FROZEN!  So, Dee took my car, headed to Fry's and got us some backup hamburger meat.  Everyone got to the apartment, and we headed to the pool area to cook-out.  Bridget (one of our co-workers) had a weber grill, so we didn't have to worry about charcoal.  I seasoned my meat patties, and loaded them up on the grill!  Everyone told me I did a great job, and I must say the hamburgers were pretty delicious!  So now I can add "master griller" to my list of talents, along with author and artist, jk :)

Leaving Chick-Fil-A en route to Las Vegas

Friday, April 22, 2011
Hayley had to work Friday night, so while she slept, Leah and I went to an Urgent Care Center :(  Poor Leah had gotten a sinus infection somewhere between Arizona and Birmingham, and felt terrible. So after a steroid shot, and her Z-pack, she felt a little better, enough to go lounge by the pool at least!!  That night Leah and I took Hayley and Dee to work and came back home to cook spaghetti and have our long lost 90210 night :)  We later took dinner to H and D and came back to pack for VEGAS!!!!!

Saturday, April 23, 2011 "Viva Las Vegas!!!!!!!!!"
Hoover Dam

We started our journey at the best breakfast place, Chick-Fil-A :)  Then we were off on our adventure to Vegas. Along the way we stopped on the side of the road so Leah could get some pictures of cacti and mountains.  She also took about 300 pictures of the mountains we drove through, being a true tourist (okay not really that many, but a lot!). Our first stop on this adventure was the Hoover Dam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam.  It was HUGE!!!!  We didn't have time to go on a tour, which would have been cool, but we walked across it, and it is definitely and architectural masterpiece.  Next stop, New York New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas http://www.newyorknewyork.com/.  We were only  30 miles away, so of course we starting to get antsy.  None of us had ever been to Vegas, and we were so excited to be experiencing it together!


Watching the Fountain Show

Leah and Liz on the strip

Once we arrived at the hotel (after I almost had an anxiety attack while driving in that traffic trying to park), we took our stuff from the car and went to check in.  First stop was the bar to have, of course, a Vegas Bomb.  Had to start the trip off right!  Next Hayley and I went to check us in while Leah and Dee roamed around the Casino.  Some how Hayley and I sweet talked our way into a bigger room (Vegas virgins as the desk clerk called us). After we put our stuff in the room (3021 way up!!) we headed out to the strip!  There is just something about Vegas, that for a few days, all your worries go away :)  We headed to the Bellagio for the fountain show.  Along the way we stopped in gift shops to look around. Also, I think at every corner there were people (male and female) handing out call girl cards.  Such a waste of paper in my opinion.  There were also human statues, people dressed up like Michael Jackson, etc.  Once we made it to the Bellagio http://www.bellagio.com/ we waited for the fountain show to begin!  It was very impressive!  Then we headed back to the hotel to change clothes and head out for the night!  We stopped and got a New York hotdog!  It was actually pretty good!  Next we headed to the ROK nightclub (Leah and Dee got us in for free!)  We had lots of fun there!  Next we were off to Coyote Ugly (like the movie).  Luckily we didn't have to leave the hotel to have all this fun!  Dee and Hayley played a few slot machines while Leah and I watched and chatted at the bar.  That was a night never to be forgotten (at least by Dee and Hayley, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas").

Sunday, April 24, 2011
Waiting for the show to start
pictures before dinner

First of all, we slept in real late.  Once we woke up, we went across the street and ate at a food court, then just walked around the strip.  Later, Leah and I roamed around the hotel a little bit more, while Dee and Hayley played more slots (and watched other people play). That night we decided we wanted to go to a buffet before our Cirque du Soleil show.  We got dressed up real pretty and headed off to dinner around 7. We walked across to the MGM hotel and casino because we had been told it was a very good buffet.  It was $40, so it had better have been good, and it was!  We ate our weight in crab legs, shrimp, steak, sushi, fruit and dessert!  YUM!!! Then we headed down the strip to Treasure Island for our Mystere Cirque du Soleil show!  This was one of the most amazing shows I have EVER seen!  The athletic ability of these people is incredible!  I can't wait to go to another one! The treck back to our hotel was the longest walk of our lives!  Leah and I wore wedge heels (because we wanted to look cute) and our feet were killing us (Leah's a little bit more than mine).  On our way home we walked through The Venetian.  I swear we were walking through the streets of Italy,at least I wish we were!  Anyway, once we finally made it home, Leah went straight to bed, while Hayley, Dee and I headed to the slot machines again!  I stayed for about 3 hours and played a goldfish slot game with Hayley (we played on $14 for that long)!  It was really fun, but after those 3 hours I was pooped and headed to bed!  Hayley and Dee decided to go get steak at 4 am.  They said it was really good though!  I think they finally made it back to the room around 6?

Monday, April 25, 2011 "Adios Las Vegas"
Time to say bye bye to Las Vegas, and head back to Goodyear :( We had soo much fun, and I can't wait to go back again one day!  The drive home was really long!  We were all tired, and they all slept most of the way, so it was a pretty quiet drive (making it worse for me since I was driving).  At least I got to listen to whatever I wanted :)  Once Leah finally woke up, we put it Celine Dion and belted it out (making that part of the trip fun)!  Poor Dee had to work that night, so she took a nap as soon as we got home.  Hayley, Leah, and I went to find Leah some AZ souveniers for her grandparents, Joey, and Curly Bec (friends from home).  Then we ate at Claim Jumper and I had the best bbq chicken salad ever and they had some yummy rotisserie chicken. Then we had to go home and get Leah packed to leave me the next day :(
Apache Trail


Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Canyon Lake 

Leah and I went to Black Bear Diner for breakfast!  This place has the biggest buttermilk biscuits, and the were largely delicious! After breakfast I took her to the Apache Trail, so she could have one last look at the beautiful Arizona desert/mountain scenery before she left me :(  We took several pictures of huge cacti, as well as a beautiful mountain lake named Canyon Lake.  We left the trail, and headed to the airport so Leah could catch her flight!  It was sad for her to go!  We (Hayley and I) had an amazing time with Leah!  It was great to have someone from home come visit!  This was by far the most fun and memorable weekend getaway we've been on so far, and there are many more to come!!

Until next time,
~Hayley and Elizabeth~

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Another short trip

So, I know this is a little late, but I wanted to include you all on our latest Sedona trip (there will be at least 2 more).  This place is just sooo beautiful, we had to return!  Okay so 2 weeks ago, Hayley and I decided since we had 2 days off in a row, we should take another trip together!  We asked everyone at work where to go, and got lots of suggestions.  We decided on Out of Africa Wildlife Park, Montezuma's Castle, and of course SEDONA! We pricelined (actually hotel.com'ed) this amazing golf resort in Sedona, and were able to book it at half price!!!!  So exciting when you get a great deal like that.  Okay, so anyway we began planning our trip.  We are more of spontaneous trip planners, so there really wasn't much that went into it.

Feeding the giraffe a carrot
Tiger Splash
So, Tuesday April 12, we left our apt late (as usual) and headed up north.  Our first stop was the Out of Africa Wildlife park.  This place was soo cool! We got there just in time to head out on a safari!  Our first and best stop was to fee the Giraffes.  That guy weighed over 1500 lbs, was over 12 ft tall, and had the longest black tongue I have EVER seen! Other animals we saw included an ostrich, camels, lions, white bangal tigers, black bears, water buffaloes, zebras, and antelopes.  We had a very tasty hot dog for lunch while we watched the Tiger Splash show.  It was not nearly as cool as we thought it might be.  Basically two guys ran around in this fenced in area with toys, and tried to get the tiger to jump into the pool and swim.  The tiger wasn't having it, and so it took about 15 minutes for it to even jump in.  Anyway, finally it jumped in and I got a few good shots of the tiger in the water and in the air.

Mufasa!!
Montezuma's Castle
Next it was on to see Montezuma's Castle.  Now, we thought this was going to be really cool and get to actually go inside it, but instead we had to pay $5 to see a house built into the side of a mountain out of limestone.  I guess it was cool, but I would never go out of my way to bring someone there to see it.  We walked around about 20-30 minutes to get our money's worth, then left and headed to Sedona, AZ for the 2nd time :)

sunset
We made it to Sedona, and went straight to our hotel.  It was a Golf Resort that we had gotten for half price.  When we went to check in, we got some crazy looks b/c if was very obvious we didn't belong there.  We put our stuff in our room, and then headed to downtown Sedona to look at all of the shops.  While we were on our way, we talked with our friend Dee, who had just gotten back to Phoenix from a visit to Louisiana, and convinced her to come up for the night!  It didn't take much arm twisting, and she was on her way.  Hayley and I walked around for a while, got some nachos at a local restaurant, and bought some t-shirts (one being for Grayson, my friend Hope's son).  Once Dee was almost there, we told her to meet us at a lookout spot and watch the sunset from there. The rest of the night was pretty boring.  We went back to the hotel and rested, then went to eat, and apparently the restaurant we walked into was having a retirement party.  I swear, the older adults can be louder then young adults! We ate our dinner and then headed back to the hotel to get some shut eye.

The following day, Hayley and I showed Dee around Sedona (as if we live there).  We took her to Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, and through downtown.  We also drove up to Oak Creek Canyon.  Along our drive, we passed through snow.  Once we got to the Canyon, I decided to make a little snowman, as seen above.  Then we were on our way home.  It was about a 2 1/2 hour drive home and boy were we glad to get out of the car!  Till next time!

Hayley and Elizabeth