Alexis Birthday

We spent the weekend with Glen's family. Teejay, Glen's brother also drove down from Sacramento.

Hoover Dam

On the way back from Las Vegas, we stopped at the Hoover Dam, mainly to see the progress of the Highway 93 bridge over the Colorado River.

Recent Trips

Some friends of ours from Pyrbaum, Germany toured the Southwest, including some of the National Parks. They concluded their visit in Las Vegas. We joined them for a couple days. We haven't been to Las Vegas for about 7 years, not too many changes noted. Our visitors were from Bavaria, but they still wanted to experience the Hofbräuhaus in Las Vegas.


Irregardless that the city is in the middle of the desert, the water fountain show is still being presented, a popular tourist attraction (see the youtube in the side bar)

Weekend with Luca

We had some "quality" time with Luca (3yr 9mos. Saturday, he really enjoyed the Verde River Days at the Dead Horse State Park.




We listened to the music preformed by the Verde Valley Community Band, Luca especially liked a group called Kid Fiddlers. Other Activities included a Kiddie Slide, sand castle building. The conclusion of the day was the Civil War reenactment. Luca had to hold his ears, since he had to stand close to demo firing of cannons.

It was a hot day, 98 in the shade!
The picture on the right partially shows Elfriede applauding the Civil War reenactment. I brought my video camera and not the digital one. So, the photos are courtesy of the Dead Horse State Park. See more pictures on this LINK

Apple Fest and more....

Today we spent a nice day, first at the Sliderock State Park near Sedona (Applefest) and later at the Sedona Community Fair held at the airport. There were no apples, they had a 17 degree frost in the spring damaging the blossoms. The park originally was started as the Pendley homestead around 1910. (Park web site)

We had our lunch on a bench with a view of the Oak Creek, see picture.

We were a little late for the fair at the airport, just had time for coffee and dessert, and browsing around some of the exhibits

A day at Tlaquepaque, Sedona

We spent a nice day at the shopping center in center, listening to Flamenco and Mariachi music. The weather was nice with clouds moving in in the afternoon. Two days before the area experienced a flash flood that swept away son e cars in the parking lot.
Take a video tour of Tlaquepaque HERE

Rain and fog

It finally rained Saturday and this morning we woke up with fog outside, an unusual sight in the northern Arizona desert.