Yabba Dabba Doo!

My mouth dropped a foot when we came upon this scene that repeated itself for miles and miles on our way to the Grand Canyon. Acres and acres of wild flowers with the green pines behind took my breath away! John and I took a spur-of-the-moment trip to Flagstaff and to the Grand Canyon! We did a lot of "firsts" to add to my 55 new adventures list for my 55th birthday born in 1955!
Day 1=we drove up through Sedona and stopped to window shop. We were told to see a Church that is a real tourist attraction so we back-tracked to it and got some great pictures since it overlooks the southern side of the area and there is a lot of beauty to see with the red rock formations and the green valley.

In Flagstaff we went to the old downtown area to eat at a "green" hamburger joint called Diablos. We wandered around town and then went to a movie. (Eat, Pray, Love=C movie!)


Day 2=Going to the Grand Canyon and making a Pit Stop at Bedrock City! When Greg, Brian and Adam were little guys, we stopped here on the way to the Grand Canyon to take some pictures. We didn't know that there was a whole city that you had to pay a fee to see. That was 27 years ago and guess what...it is still there. This time we paid $5.00 each to go in and we had the whole place to ourselves! This is just a sampling of the "priceless" pictures we got!
The Bedrock Village had a grocery store, doctor's office, dentist, movie theater, garage, barber/hair salon, school, post office, police station, train, playground, Betty and Barney's house and Fred and Wilma's house. Each place was all decked out in Flintstone decor. I just loved it!

The canyon is magnificent and hasn't changed since we were there! But there is a ton of tourist attractions now and I really enjoyed looking at all the Indian crafts and jewelry. We ate a late lunch at Sophie's MExican food before heading back a differnt way that took us through the San Fanscisco Peaks. We drove up to see Snow Bowl, which was pretty much a beautiful drive through the pines a bathroom stop and then back down through the pines! I just have to say that I LOVE Arizona. Here we have every scenic vista that we could ask for. In two days we saw mountains, pines, canyons, red rock formations, mesas, lakes, cacti, wild flowers, and high deserts with grass and flowers as tall as a horses thighs!

John got caught with his finger in Fred's nose!

Here are some of the hair styles you might choose from when you go to the pre-histoic beauty salon!

Go Dino Go!

This slide looked pretty fun, but neither one of us dared to go on it!

The stairs go up from his front legs and the top of the slide is under the yellow awning.

This is Fred and Wilma's house.

My school teacher liked me!

Aaaa..... We got a little confused here!

Sorry about the jumbled up picture order. This is the Church of the Holy Cross that we went to in Sedona. (see lower post)

Day 3=heading home via the Meteror Crator and Winslow. (See other posts) We drove home through the mountains on highway 87 and I just couldn't get enough of the trees and the scenery. What a great trip it was!