Family Vacation

This year our extended family took a trip down to Sedona, Arizona to visit Aunt Kendall and Aunt Patricia.  We'd never been able to make the trip before and we wanted to go see them before they moved someplace else.  Rhonda and Bob make an annual trip down so we all went together.

 

On the way we decided to stop at the Grand Canyon since Paul and I had never been there before.  We made a short stop at the North Rim, just long enough to get lunch and take some pictures.

 

On our first full day in Sedona we did a bit of site seeing. There are a lot of great galleries and plazas to walk around.  The kids loved throwing pennies in the fountains.  Lilly kept asking Grandma for more money!

We spent the second day lounging around the pool and playing.  On the third day we took the kids to a fishing pond just outside of town where you pay $1 to use the fishing pole and then pay for the fish you catch based on their size.  Grandma Rhonda and Lilly caught one right away, but the flopping fish and spraying water made Lilly cry.  I managed to catch 2 more straight away, and then I helped William catch one.  Paul and Bob aren't that into fishing so they helped us with nets and as hook pullers.  Once you catch the fish you take them to a little shack where you pay $0.50 each for a man to gut them for you.  The kids stood on a bench and watched him through a window.  Both of them were enthralled by all the gore.  Kids!

 

 

On our way back to Utah we stopped at the Cliff Dwellers site.  The sign said that back in the 1930's a lady driving through the area had a break down and had to camp nearby while waiting for help.  She loved the area so much that she ended up buying the property.  Not too long afterward they built these structures under the boulders. The kids liked crawling and climbing in and out of the rocks.  Paul found an old, broken car (leave it to the car guy).  Grandpa Bob and William decided to climb up the mountain side a bit to see the view.

We finally got home after being gone a week and spent a day recovering.  We had a ton of fun and I promised the kids that we could take another big vacation next year.