Shades of Red

You know how New England people tend to retire to Florida? Nah, I'm retiring to Arizona. This place is AMAZING. Sedona is beautiful. It's so beautiful that I feel like it's fake. I feel it people cannot truly live surrounded by this red rock. Can they?

As I mentioned in my last post, I was pretty exhausted when I woke up at 5 am Arizona time. I considered skipping my work out but I thought it may make me feel better. I know some people use vacations as an excuse to fall off the healthy bandwagon for a bit, but I actually love to exercise on vacation because I actually have time. Plus, when I am eating out multiple times a day, my stomach is happier if I have worked out a bit. Oh, and also, look at the view from my elliptical machine...

Just look past the orange umbrellas haha. Since we have a microwave in our room I decided to make my own oatmeal for breakfast. I figured it would save money and make my stomach happy all early in the morning. I actually brought a knife and a peeler for my apple, but I did not bring a bowl so I had to get creative...

Yup, I split my oatmeal between the two cups they gave us in the hotel room haha. What can I say? When you have a stomach like mine you learn to do ridiculous things to make it happy.

Post-breakfast Eric and I headed out for a round of golf. It's no secret that golf is NOT my favorite sport. First of all, any sport where I have to "dress up" is not a sport in my mind. Also, 18 holes can easily occupy most of your day and I am not a fan of things that take too long- that's why I teach kindergarten, we switch subjects every half an hour.

Fortunately, Eric and I compromised and we went to a 9 hole Par 3, aka Golf for Kelly. Nice and quick, with short holes I can manage (par 5's can easily take me several shots to even get close to the green). Plus, I can't complain with this view while playing golf...

Also I happened to be playing well today which always adds to my happiness. I had an audience of people watching me at the first hole so I thought for sure I'd hit it 2 feet in front of me. I managed to crush it and get some surprised compliments from the serious golfers around. Nice.

Unfortunately my putting, which is normally my strong suit, was not quite on target today but I blame it on the fact that I was using my sister's putter- yes Caroline I had to borrow your clubs, mine are at the Cape. I'm taking very good care of them and I'm thinking you will not be missing them in Boston right now? Oh and also, your 7 iron rocks.

Anyway, in the afternoon we got really touristy and took a Pink Jeep Tour. Basically it's a 4 wheel drive tour through the red rocks...

They even let me drive...

Haha, maybe not...

Sure, I'm a good driver, but you don't do this everyday...

This was amazing and we got to see so much of the red rocks and really go up into them. Plus our driver was a local so he told us a lot about the area and what to do tomorrow on our way to the Grand Canyon.

We finished the day with some Mexican food with a view...

Yes, everything in Sedona has a view. The place was called Oaxaca and was located right near our Pink Jeep Tour drop off in Uptown Sedona.

Eric got Chimichanga...

and I was boring and got a chicken sandwich. Truthfully I've never been a Mexican food person because I don't like cheese, which really limits my selection. I know Arizona is big on Mexican food so I am going to try to get more creative as the trip continues :)

I have to say though, it was a great chicken sandwich.

Tomorrow I'm headed for the Grand Canyon and I think my internet access is going to be limited until Thursday. I am still planning to blog but I won't be able to do photo recaps of the trip because I do not think I'll have internet on my own computer. I am planning to do at least 1 post answering questions that I have been asked on my Ask Anything page. Please visit it and ask some questions so you can get some answers, anything you want to know :)

I am actually keeping up with your blogs with the help of my Blackberry but I may not comment because it takes so long. I promise I'll be back to my normal commenting self in a few days!