Anniversary Eve

Tomorrow is our anniversary, and we were planning to go camping at the Grand Canyon.  When I went to pick Mark up from work last night and it was raining like crazy, I thought, "I wonder what the weather will be like at the Grand Canyon this weekend."  I looked, and all of our weekend plans were ruined!  It is supposed to be storming all weekend, just like here. 

Just an FYI, something we haven't learned in our seven years of marriage is to have a plan B.  So we thought and thought, and thought some more.  On such short notice all we came up with was to drive to Happy Jack and check it out, then go skip rocks at Lake Mary.  Oh, and take lots of pictures of the beautiful scenery.
  Really, I took lots.  86 pictures, not including the ones I deleted.  No worries, I won't post all of them. 

We found out something interesting, though.  Happy Jack is not a city, like we thought, but a very large campground.  Our GPS said that we had arrived at Happy Jack, and all that was there was a ranger station, which was closed.  So I guess we could say that Happy Jack was closed!  It was very beautiful, though, and the clouds were performing beautifully.  I told Mark that the clouds here in Flagstaff are always very creative.

Clouds over Mormon Lake

The road to Happy Jack

Our beautiful Humphrey's Peak in the San Francisco Mountains.

Amazing clouds over Happy Jack

This is Mormon Lake, which isn't really a lake, but more like a large marsh.  The cliffs and scenery reminded us of pictures we have seen of the highlands of Great Britain.

Mark, and the cliffs around Mormon Lake.

Beautiful billowy clouds over our apartment.

We promised more pictures of Flagstaff, so I had to include this one.  This is the golf course across the street from our apartment.

Mark's wind-up to skip a rock...

Execution...

and follow through.

Then when we got back, Mark's amazing Aunt Mary called us and asked if we wanted to go to dinner with them, and they treated us!  We went to Outback, and the food was great.  She also made us some yummy cookies, and gave us a dozen eggs from their very own hens.  We love having Mary and Robert close by. 


Tomorrow we are going to Coco's for breakfast, since we were going to go to a really great restaurant for breakfast at the Grand Canyon.  Then we are going to pick up our silly dogs from the kennel, and then make a pizza and buffalo wings and watch FSU's and BYU's football games.  Oh, and finish up some homework.  Maybe next year we'll have better luck, or at least a few backup plans, just in case!