Day 7

May 17,2012

This morning we got up at 5 am! It was early but it wasn’t too hard, I think because we are still on Charlotte time, which means it would have been 8 am for us.  We had a wonderful breakfast prepared by Aunt Jan and then we headed to spend the day in Sedona.  This is not our first time in Sedona but it is such a beautiful place I would not have wanted to miss it on our trip. We decided to spend the day hiking, So we stopped at the Ranger station since Sedona is in a national forest, which is really cool because all around the area is different trails and sight seeing spots. We chose to hike up to see the cowpies (which are giant rocks shaped like cow manure). We started out on our hike on a trial called “mungs wagon”. It was already 96 degree’s when we started in the morning. The mungs wagon trail was to lead to us to the cow pie trail. We hiked and we hiked in the hot weather and it was hard hiking, very steep, rough terrain etc, just a difficult hike in that hot of weather. I started to burn 20 minutes after putting on sunscreen.  We continued on and hiked for about 4 hours. We never found the cow pies and David is still trying to figure out where we went wrong but we found some pretty amazing views of Sedona, it was worth it in the end, but I think we were both very happy when we made it back to the car.

            After the hike we went to find a nice place to eat lunch. So first we treated ourselves to a Gatorade (which any thing besides water is a commodity on this trip), then we set out to find a bathroom, then we got lost trying to find a picnic spot that didn’t cost money. We finally found a place, when I realized that the travel size battle ship game my parents gave us melted in the car, so I was trying to find all the pieces to the game when David came over and said he needed to go to the bathroom (he didn’t go earlier) so we went back to the same gas station and by that time we had spent an hour trying to eat basically so we gave up and had a snack in the car at the gas station. 

            After that we drove around Sedona looking at all of the beautiful red rocks and then went to our camp. It was the cutest little campsite, with pretty trees and a creek right next to us. We spent the evening hammocking, reading and talking with our neighboring camper who had two poodles, “Romeo and Juliet”. He was road tripping up to Alaska. Next we went to watch the sunset by the airport, which is the best view of the whole city, it was such a beautiful sunset. After the sunset we decided to treat ourselves out to dinner because David wanted to try this restaurant that had cactus fries and rattle snake. We changed our mind about the rattle snake when we found out it was rattlesnake meatballs which grossed us out, but the cactus was pretty good. I had my first bison burger, which was also really good.  After dinner we headed back to camp. The stars we so bright, so we set up our crazy creeks (which is a type of fold up chair) on top of the picnic table to watch the stars. We saw three shooting stars and David swears he kept hearing something in the bushes so he was on a mission to find it with the flashlight. After that we went to bed, because we were so tired from the long, but really fun day.