Meteors, Craters, and Sedona

To all our readers and loyal fans out there in blog world...I just want to say that we turned off of 40 and are currently relaxing in the best kept secret in the U.S. ... Sedona, AZ. Wow, gorgeous. But before I delve into the wonder that is Sedona, let's discuss our journey from Gallup, NM.

We headed out this morning from Gallup NM which is right on the border of AZ, giving us about a 4-41/2 hr drive to Sedona. Along the way we saw a sign for the world's largest/best preserved meteor crater. Loogan gave me that look which I know all too well...the look that said, "Derka...I want to go look at the world's largest/best preserved meteor crater". So I audibly said, "OK". Secretly I was really siked to go see it too, I just didn't want to pay money to see a hole in the ground. In the end it rocked and we have some awesome pictures. Here ya go:

After the crater we jumped in the car and decided to make our last strait shot right to Sedona. But something happened when we got into Sedona...we slowed down. We started looking around and we saw the most breathtaking scenery you can imagine.

Before you check out the pics I want to take a minute to talk about Lauren's Godmother's brother and wife, Harry and Christine. They are the nicest people with great stories. Both are retired and living an amazing life here in this gem of America. Christine is a volunteer of T.I.P. or Trauma Intervention Program. She basically goes to the scene of some trauma, usually a death or some sever accident, and talks with the family or friends of the person or people harmed or killed. An intense job no doubt but one that is extremely helpful and meant for people with a cool head and an amazing ability to work under pressure...not for everyone. Harry was a P.E. teacher on Long Island for 32 years and now volunteers as a track coach at Sedona High School.

Since Christine was on call tonight for T.I.P. Harry took us around town for some more breathtaking photos of Sedona and since I am about as talented at describing beautiful scenery as I am at basketball I will let the pictures do the talking.



A lot of these rocks have names for shapes that they obviously look like but I am just uploading as many of these pics as possible so...no captions for you!