A Fickle Pickle: May 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Arizona Vacation - Day 6

I bet you were starting to wonder if I would EVER post about our last day... I was starting to wonder myself :)

I think that this day was my favorite of our vacation. (certainly the most VACATION like for me!) no setting up tents, I did NO cooking, and I got to sit up WAY WAY WAY past my bedtime and have therapeutic girl talk time. Mercy and I were friend from back in our college days, and we were nearly inseparable the summer after we both returned from our missions (back in 1994) She had come up north to stay with her sister Harmony (while Jeff was away). We both had summer jobs, but pretty much any time we weren't working - were were out PLAYING. I have some great memories from that summer. Since getting married (to Hal, who is a SUPER great guy, by the way) we haven't been able to get together much. just a couple times here and there, mostly as one or the other of us was passing through town... It was so SO great to just sit up late (I think it was 2 or 3 in the morning before we finally gave it up...) and visit about everything and nothing. Mercy is such an example to me of so many great qualities that I would do well to develop. Her kids are great... it was just fun!

In the morning, Hal saddled up their gentlest horse and the kids spent ALL MORNING being lead around the pasture by either me or Tim. After we told the kids their time was up, Hal saddled another horse and the two of us (plus Caleb, who did not want to be left alone...) took a short ride.

I hated leaving. I could have stayed there for DAYS! We are hoping to plan another trip down there SOON to go out to the red coral sand dunes with them.

We loaded up just after lunch and drove home.

And thus ends the 2010 Arizona Vacation saga! Here aer the final couple photos.

Katrina on the horse (who's name I can't remember since it took me so long to blog it...)