SNOWBOWL IN THE SUMMER

We continued to travel north of Flagstaff and ended up at Snowbowl. We were going to hike up there, but it looked like a storm was coming in. We hiked up the grassy area that usually is covered in snow during the winter, but there was a lighting watch so we only hiked up half way and it was a good thing we did. On our way down, the sky opened up and it poured. By the way the hike up the sloop was much harder than it looked :)

GRASSHOPPER CREEK

Serjio and Talia were more interested in playing leap frog in the creek than hiking the afternoon we arrived in Sedona. Serjio Jr. made it his mission to cross the creek without getting wet and succeeded. Talia attempted the same, but unfortunately she didn't have the same luck as Serjio. Her foot slipped and her shoe was saturated with creek water. We spent the next few hours watching Serjio and Talia attempting to catch tadpoles.

We stayed at a 1920's hotel in Flagstaff. The hotel had ALOT of character but we did miss the amenities of newer hotels. None of us got much sleep that night- there was a loud train that woke us up EVERY HOUR. The kids however, were not only awaken by the train, but despite the cool air of flagstaff it was hot in there room as well. We complained and laughted about our night at the hotel during breakfast the next morning :)

SEDONA SUMMER

Its the end of summer for the kids and school will be starting soon. Serjio decided to take the family up to northern Arizona. Me and the kids reluctantly agreed as our hopes were to see the ocean in sunny Venice, CA. We started our journey up north with no plans, in hopes that we would find our motivation for activities. We stopped and looked at the views as the weather was a little cooler than Phoenix. We ended up really enjoying our time together. We all swam, hiked, and ate. Especially lil Serjio-he was hungry every 5 minutes.