SEDONA- Day 2

 Today was a great day. We hiked to Devils Bridge, which took us about 3 hours and we probably hiked about 5-6 miles. We were lucky to get a parking space and we got there at 8am! We hiked the Chuckwagon Trail and it was beautiful. As we got up to the top the trail got really steep and scary, I felt like a mountain goat!! It was worth it though!

 

It was a little chilly in when we first started out.

 The trail got steeper and then straight up!
Finally we made it to the natural arch bridge! This is from the top view! The guy in the background is standing on top the bridge.

Then we hiked the trail to below the bridge, looking up.

We went back to our nice hotel and rested a bit and then decided that a hot tub would be great for our sore feet!

The rest of the afternoon we drove to Cathedral Rock, but there was NO parking, so we drove to Chapel of the Holy Cross.

The last place we stopped was Bell Rock. We got out and hiked a little bit of the Bell Rock Pathway. It was super pretty too.

Bell Rock!

It was a really great day and we ended it by having a nice dinner at "The Golden Goose". We are having a little weird thing going on with our car. It started just outside Flagstaff, we both noticed about the same time that our eyes were hurting and watering. I thought it was something outside that we were breathing in. Its something coming from our car, inside, and we can't figure it out!! LaVerl took out one of the fuses that go to the airbags and we hope that fixes it! So Weird!!

SEDONA!!

 It's hard to believe that we have lived in Arizona for 40 years and we've never been to Sedona!  It's beautiful! LaVerl had a few days off from work and he wanted to go do something, so I picked out Sedona! The weather is nice and cool and because we are here Wed-Fri, hopefully the trails and places to see won't be packed with people!

Our first stop was Slide Rock State Park. It was a good thing we didn't want to swim, because it was much to cool for that! But it sure looked inviting!!

The red rock was so amazing!

Oak Creek is beautiful!

There were still a few golden leaves left on the trees!

We stopped in Flagstaff to see Kari and kids for a few minutes on our way. We ate some really good Mexican food and then we settled in our nice hotel. Tomorrow will be seeing more of God's creations!

Baby Gabe's appendix rupture!! Scary stuff!

 Its a scary thing when a tiny baby boy, only 18 months old, is so very sick and you don't know what's wrong with him. He can't talk to tell you, he won't eat or drink anything, and he won't even hardly move! That's is what was happening to our little grandson Gabe!

 When he left my house on Thursday, he was already not feeling good that morning, I could tell because he would hardly eat anything and he's a really good eater! Kirk picked him up in Holbrook and by Saturday they could tell something was wrong. Sunday he wouldn't move off Kari's chest! Monday morning they took him to the ER.

The hospital ran every test imaginable trying to figure out what was wrong with this little guy. Finally a CT scan showed that his appendix was very enlarged and had ruptured, very rare in a baby!

He had a great surgeon and everything went well. By day 3 after surgery, he was feeling so much better!

Lots of prayers were given and we feel so blessed that Gabe is going to be well and back to his happy, adorable little self!

He was happy to get all the needles out and to be able to eat again!

Going home at last!!!

His brothers are sure happy he's home!