The last weekend in Arizona was the best. Saturday Leo and I rented a car and drove out to the Sonoran Desert Museum. It's a zoo, museum, and garden of Arizona native animals, minerals, history, and plants. It is truly amazing if you can make it out there.
After we drove almost an hour to get to the best ranked Thai restaurant in Tucson, and we weren't disappointed. We went out to the District Tavern after dinner, and Leo played pool while I watched. He's getting pretty good.
Sunday we drove up to Mt. Lemmon, which was probably my favorite place in Arizona. There are huge pine trees (Ponderosas?), water, and it's about twenty degrees cooler there than down in the valley. It was completely beautiful. We visited the town of Summerhaven, and sampled some pretty awesome fudge, then moved on to start a hike. We didn't get too far before the rains started, but we climbed up rock faces off the trail, which was more challenging and satisfying. I am incredibly out of shape though, haha.
Sunday night we watched a movie and cuddled, then Monday Leo's roommate drove me to the airport. I'm really sad to leave, but hopefully it won't be that long until I see him again. Right now the plan is to visit around Christmas time, but I'm hoping for something in about half as many months. We'll see.
My folks picked me up at the airport, and I've just been chilling at home. Today was my dad's birthday so I got to spend a lot of time with family and go out to some pretty yummy meals today. Other than that, I made some bara brith, Welsh fruit bread, because it was definitely a cold baking day. It uses strong black tea, spices, and lots of fruit for it's flavor. I liked it, but I'm going to perfect the recipe before I post it. I want to tweak some of the ingredient amounts in the recipe I used.
Tomorrow my dad and I are going out to look at a horse trailer. It's a very reasonable price, partially because it isn't painted. If I buy it I will need to paint it myself, so that is going to be my project before school starts. I don't mind the challenge, and it will give me something to do in the next couple weeks. Just hope it stops raining long enough to paint the thing.
Hopefully tomorrow will end with me having a trailer, and a new project to work on. This weekend I'm picking up my baby and bringing her to the new barn in Woodinville, and starting to move into the new place. Life is starting up, and I'm pretty excited. I'll keep everyone updated on what goes on in the next few days.
Flowers at the Desert Museum
Native birds
View as we start to climb Mt. Lemmon
Leo on our rock climbing hike
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