Tucson, Arizona

Our next month was spent in Tucson, and I had no idea how much I'd like it. We were able to explore, hike, and get outside a lot while we were there. My expectations had probably been significantly lowered from living in Fort Worth, but I though Tucson was so pretty! Our housing arrangements weren't ideal, since we lived in a random ladies home with two twin beds, otherwise we loved our experience.

It's always enjoyable getting to be in different terrain that what you are used too, and Tucson offered us plenty of that. It also had Mt. Lemon which gave us a little touch of home with it's large Aspen's and cooler weather.

Havasupi

For the rest of my fall break I went to Havasupi with Sean and Ryan. 

Such a lovely place,

But an extremely long drive

and quite the hike with a backpack.

We had a real lovely time.

We spent three days there.

The weather was perfect.

I was able to get some exersize in during the middle of school.

See the sun.

And relax in a beautiful place.

I'm pretty sure that we slept 15 hours the first night. Whoops. But well needed.

Then I made up for it by hiking around all the next day.

I had a great time, but don't know if havasupi is made for me.

It's kind of expensive, really far to get to, and has a lot of people compared similar destinations.

Definitly had fun, but I think I'd choose glacier or other less populated parks over havasupi.

But isn't it super magical?

Sean and I decided to sprint out of there, or at least that's what it felt like. We were hiking at a really quick pace for me and my short legs. I was pretty happy to be back to the car, and have a lot of water waiting for me. Hiking out of havasupi in the middle of the day can be intense.

We finished off the week by spending the weekend in Las Vegas with Kevin. We just hung out, relaxed and enjoyed the sun before I heading back to school the next week. It was a great little getaway to break up the monotony of school.

Arizona

I took another little trip to Arizona. I went to visit my family, take photo's at a travel conference, and hang with Michelle. All of which I did and loved.

The trip ended up falling on the first part of my fall break. It worked out so well.

My grandpa and father

My mom, grandma, sister and I

I was able to sit by the pool with Michelle and get some sun finally, we also were able to live the high life and pretend to be important so that we could get free stuff! We got all the gifts they were passing out, which was really fun for us. We got a beach bag, purse, bracelet, etc. We went on a nice hike as well, and didn't about pass out this time!

 

I also go to enter into a salsa making challenge with them put on by one of the hotels. It was great idea and super fun. They had three teams and they judged you on taste and presentation. So you had to present it everyone and tell them about your salsa, as well as make it look nice. It was super funny.

The hotels had given us really pretty bouquets that had vines wrapped around the inside of the vases.

It was fun spending as much time as I could with my grandma and family.

My grandma is amazing and adorable and even though she doesn't feel well she's cracking jokes and catching up everyone. She's so great.