I'm Wearing A Sweatshirt in Arizona?!?!?!

So, hooray, Brett just finished up his first quarter of classes on Thursday and now has a 10 day break! We can't believe how fast the time has flown by.... it's already been 10 weeks! So, to celebrate we decided to take a trip up to Flagstaff to get out of the heat and away from even looking at campus for a few days! So, here are some pictures from that fun experience! Also, I had a great surprise last Saturday. One of my previous students and her mom showed up at my doorstep! Kelsie Richards came to visit me, and she and her mom drove all the way from Goodyear to come. I was soooooo excited, and felt really good that one of my students would want to come visit!

We have learned a big lesson from our trip to Flagstaff. NEVER go to a hotel that doesn't have a continental breakfast included. We thought we were saving some big bucks by staying at a cheap motel (and were fooled into thinking it DID have a continental breakfast. We weren't aware that having coffee in the lobby until 10 am counted as a "breakfast.") So we had to go eat at the IHOP next door and spent WAY more money than we would have if we hadn't been so cheap with the motel. I mean seriously, what kind of establishment doesn't include shampoo in the rooms or an alarm clock? Yeah, that's how awesome our room was. But nevertheless, it was a great trip and we learned one more thing.... we will never live in Flagstaff. It has been stricken from the record of places to consider. It was the craziest layout of a town that we've ever seen, and the homeless population was about as big as the people who own homes. So, no thank you to that. Ahhh, the many lessons you can learn on a vacation!

Kelsie and me at my house!

My GINORMOUS pancakes that I had for breakfast. I have NEVER seen pancakes this big before in my life. I only made it through one... and that was a big undertaking!

Brett and I on a chair lift ride in Flagstaff. It was fun and COLD! Yes, we're both wearing sweatshirts in AUGUST in Arizona! WAHOO!

The pretty trees/dead trees of Flagstaff. It was really fun to see trees other than palm trees for once. We almost felt like we were back in Provo.....

My glamor (I feel that this word is spelled differently, but spellcheck said I was wrong....) shot of the trip. This is me at the top of the mountain, before I had to sit down because I felt like I was going to pass out. Note to self-- high elevation= not a lot of oxygen. Not a lot of oxygen= not a happy Nikki. It was so fun to be wearing a sweatshirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, that's how high we were!

The view on the way down the chair lift. So pretty!