Tucson and the White Mountains

Recently celebrated my 29th birthday down in Tucson with my sweet husband, and got to celebrate my friend Mel's wedding, and go camping in the White Mountains, and we got the call that there was a fire burning about 10 miles from our apartment, so we decided to come home a day early. But we did have fun hiking Mt. Baldy and in Tucson near Mt. Lemmon.

I also love agaves. They're pretty neat to!

Fancy fake waterfall, except for 3 months out of the year...

Our fancy hotel had a fancy fake stream

Our fancy hotel

Our fancy swimming pool, in the desert.

Also obsessed with Saguaros.

My sweet husband!

The happy hiking dog!

Little Colorado River!

I don't think I'm exaggerating the tilt, it felt much steeper.

This was taken June 11th. That's real honest to goodness snow.

I'm not sure why I'm obsessed with benchmarks. Just am.

View from the top!

Someone should cut these trees down so we can see better

Wreckage of an old plane- someone told us it's from WW2

doesn't look like much, but this appears to be the headwaters of the LCR!

Squatch can swim! Just needs to learn to come back.

Fossil Ck, West Clear Ck, and Tonto Natural Bridge

So for Tim's birthday we decided to go camping and go hiking. Preferably someplace with water. We just don't get to see much water. Fossil Creek was beautiful, we just didn't get to stay long, because we needed to get a campsite before it got dark.

Turquoise blue waters! Amazing! in Arizona!

Can you see all the fish?

Tim teaching squatch to swim. Sorta.

Squatch is not much of a swimmer, she kinda likes to climb the ladder when she's in the water.

Apparently the current was too strong for Squatch. She had to get rescued.

 Also- Tim's been wanting to go check out this trail for a long time. I was under the impression that there were going to be a lot more stream crossings. But this was my favorite part of the hike.

This was my favorite part of the West Clear Ck trail.

Tell me: Does this look like a shark?

We are bad dog owners. We didn't take into account how hot the ground was going to be.

So Tim had to carry her.

I had to take pictures. Cuz she's a little princess!

 And then we were going to go home, but when I dropped Rocket off in town for her oil change and such they called to tell me that there were more repairs that she needed, so we needed to kill some more time. This is why we went to see Tonto Natural Bridge. For a state park that is supposedly having serious money issues there were state park employees all over the place.

And this was at Tonto Natural Bridge

kinda neat.

Squatch. not impressed.

And then my battery died. no more photos!

Squatch got a haircut.

Just for comparison sake, this is a scruffy Sasquatch.

This is a not so scruffy Sasquatch.

We have a command: Circus Up! It means hop on top of something.

What's out there?

She just looks naked.

Trella loves her some sunshine.

Annular Eclipse at Grand Canyon!

I didn't get to take any pictures of the eclipse, but I got a couple of the sun gawkers. There are some people who are intense about this kind of thing. I thought it was neat, but I guess I'm not a fanatic. I probably wouldn't travel to Namibia to see one.

These guys are from Huntsville, TX and are flying to Australia for the Transit of Venus.