Weekend away...

Rik and I went to Flagstaff this weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary that happened a couple of weeks ago. I was pretty excited about this because it was kind of a mini-honeymoon. Remember, 16 years ago, we were too broke to have a honeymoon, and then, kids came along, and well, we were not only broke, but exhausted and busy too! So this past summer when Rik mentioned that he thought it would be fun to go snowshoeing for our anniversary, I decided to take him up on it.

It turned into a snowshoeing/cross country skiing adventure because the place that I found that you could do this at offered both. We decided to do skiing one day and snowshoeing the next. What I learned is that cross country skiing is a whole lot harder than the people in the Olympics make it look. While it is fun, I think I need a lot more practice before I make it off the green, easy loops. I am in total awe of the people who we saw up there on the black, hard loops.

Snowshoeing is a lot easier. But, it should be - right? I am not trying to glide across snow, clomping across snow is much easier! It also took us to some quieter, more beautiful spots. The one thing that no one had told me and I had never thought about it how NOISY snow is. Being the desert rat I am, I have all these Christmas card images of snow flakes quietly falling - and did not realize that snow is crunchy and loud once all of those snowflakes get together on the ground.

We also spent sometime walking around downtown Flagstaff. Why is it that this city I live in cannot have a nice downtown like this? I loved it because there were lots of cute shops and restaurants. It wasn't scary to walk out there, even at night. We ate lots of good food (Thai, German, pizza, etc) and I was scared to get on the scale this morning. We even topped it off with Cold Stone - and this one didn't get the message about Dark Chocolate Peppermint being only available during Nov/Dec. They still had some on Jan 31!

And, after being in 20º temps during the mornings for the past couple of days, it seemed almost warm here this morning. Everyone at work kept saying it was chilly out and strangely, I hadn't noticed. :)