Arizona in August

Alyssa and I decided to take a trip to Arizona to visit her mom and just get out of Provo for a few days before Alyssa had to start school. It worked out perfect because RAH had no scheduled activities for the last week of August so we bought cheap plane tickets and off we went!

We flew over the grand canyon.

While in Arizona we did a whole lot of nothing. It was great. I love vacations like that. Many told me that I would melt in the heat, but the weather was terrific. It was never over 95, it stormed every night, and it was just a little humid, nothing unbearable. We had no real plans, but we did have some things to accomplish on our list... and most of them involved food. Unfortunately on this trip, I was without my camera a lot so I only caught a few of our moments.

We ate at the cheesecake factory. MMMMMM.

We ate ice cream at the Sugar Bowl in Scottsdale.

We attended the beautiful Mesa Temple.

Our friend Mark from our ward up here was also in Gilbert when we were there and he came and hung out with us a couple of times. This night we stayed outside on the porch from about 10p-2a watching this amazing thunderstorm. It was so awesome!

And sadly, that's about all the pictures I have of my trip. The rest of the time we just watched movies, ate good Mexican food, played ping pong, swam, shopped for home decor stuff, and hung out with Alyssa's sweet mom, and her aunt Donna and uncle Ken. It was a really fun time and we were very sad to leave.

Here is the sun setting while we were on the airplane going home. And us on our nearly empty flight back. It's a little dark cuz I didn't want to freak anyone out with the flash...