Today mom and I met up with Dana and met her fiance Matt for the first time..he's very nice and easygoing. It was great seeing her again, it had been a few years since we'd seen each other in person. We showed her around the house and decided to go to Montezuma Castle, with a stop at Tonto Natural Bridge along the way (mom and I went there in January too). The hike back up the hill from the bridge is a killer, especially since the altitude is above 5000 feet (I'd die trying to climb Mt. Everest D:). We also taught them to geocache, which was fun..Dana found the second one we looked for all on her own, nice! Montezuma Castle was cool (more exciting than the ruins we saw yesterday lol). Building the dwellings into the side of the cliff must have been hard work! After that we were hungry and saw that Sedona wasn't that far from where we were, so we decided to have dinner there, yay! Sedona is so beautiful. Unplanned adventures are the best lol. We had dinner at a Mexican restaurant, yum. I liked seeing all the Christmas lights as we drove back to Payson. I'm sooo happy I got to see Dana again..definitely one of the best days this year! They're getting married next July, so I'm glad I won't have to wait years to see her again lol. Yay <3 (Dana was mentioning how cool it was that we've been to so many states together..Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Alaska, Arizona..nice!)

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Today mom and I went to Sedona! (80 some miles from Payson) Today was definitely the warmest and prettiest day so far. The red rocks were super gorgeous in the sun. I didn't remember much, but it had been a long time since I had been there. We ate lunch, did some shopping (my suitcase is gonna be stuffed D:), and hiked up this rock where a vortex was. They're like..a "hot spot" of energy in the earth. They're supposed to give you spiritual and emotional balance or something (Becky said she went to one and she just started laughing and crying and couldn't stop). It didn't feel any different to me though. :P The views up there were amazing though. After spending a few hours there we drove back to Payson..such a gorgeous day to drive up there! We also found seven caches I think (two we didn't find..boo!)

Yesterday mom and I went through some of the stuff in the black hole garage that was easy to get to. It's packed with stuff..it would be easier for dad to do stuff in there than us. Too bad, I really wanted to go through my books. We did find some great pics though..oddly enough, some of the first ones I looked at were when I went to the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert, the Grand Canyon, etc when I was a kid!! So weird lol. There were also pics of Paris, camping, birthday parties, etc. It's really funny to laugh at our fashion sense back then LOL. I love looking at old pics..