Day 148, July 16th

We woke up Saturday morning and hit the road for Sedona.  Ryan was playing for another team Sunday morning, helping them out with his mad skills, so we made a lovely little weekend of it.  I was a bit worried to head up to Sedona this weekend as my friend Rachel was ready to have her little baby any day now, and I was afraid to miss it, but Ryan was fine with me leaving him in Sedona and returning once baby was born.  Fortunately this didn't happen, and we just enjoyed the weekend.  
When we got to town, we stopped for lunch and hit the little Sedona shops.  I have only been to Sedona once, a few years ago with my friends, and we really spent most of our time at Slide Rock, so it was nice to see all the stuff I hadn't seen yet.
After shopping and wine tasting, we headed to Chapel of the Holy Cross, you know, the church in the rocks...it was really pretty, tiny, but pretty.  Oh, back to the wine tasting, so the two guys were trying to get us to buy a lot of wine, and commenting on how big Ryan's arms were, saying he could easily carry at least 20 bottles out of there.  The other wine man then said, probably how he hooked you little lady, and that's when the most amazing thing ever happened...our wine man said, well she has pretty great arms too!! Oh my heavens, what a compliment! He could have been trying to get me to buy more wine, but pretty sure ever since he said that, I creepily check out my guns every chance I get!! 
Anyway, back to the church...it was really beautiful, and had amazing views! That would be an amazing church to go to every week, that's for sure!
I'm not really a huge, "hey! can you take our picture" kind of gal, so we don't have tons of photos together, except for the ones that I could creepily set up the self timer! Oh I also forgot to pack my hairspray, so my bangs were not cooperating, so I had to pin them back, which shows off how ginormous my forehead is...sorry if that's all you can focus on! 


We headed back to our hotel, checked in, and then we headed back out to hike.  

We hiked a little trail close to where we were staying and it was quite a lovely hike, much prettier than our usual South Mountain views.
After the hike, we got all prettied up, and headed to dinner.  
We sat on the patio as the weather was a bit nicer than Phoenix, and we were enjoying a lovely evening under the stars when I looked over to the ledge and saw a tarantula!! Seriously, call me stupid, but I had no idea that these bad boys lived in America, let alone Arizona!! Ryan of course ran for the hills, and left me there, but luckily there seemed to be a lot of tarantula experts around, so we got a lesson, and then he took the little fella off to a secluded area.
It was quite an exciting end to a pretty great day!