More of Flagstaff

A few weeks ago we found a trail and took the dogs on a hike up one of the mountains here.  They loved it!  They found a horny toad on the trail and Ros chased it off the trail and kept trying to get it.  She would stick her nose down at it, and then would jump back because it was snapping at her.  It was quite funny!  Then on the way back she remembered where it was and drug Polly over to it to find, but it was gone. 

Mark trying to get the dogs to come.

Just before the dogs wrapped themselves around Mark's legs.

We see tons of classic cars like in the following picture all around Flagstaff.  The other day we saw a Black Ford Coupe with red and orange flames for sale.  We were tempted to buy it, but were unsure whether it had latches for ca rseats, you know, for the eventual coming of bambinos.

  No, I'm not pregnant.

This was back when Mark was studying for the NAPLEX, and Polly was always there to help him study!

Our new favorite park, Buffalo Park.  The area where these trees are is where we want to eventually build our dream home.  It's so beautiful here!

Buffalo Park again.

More Buffalo Park

More Buffalo Park

And just because it is so fabulous, even more of Buffalo Park.

We found this really lame National Park.  It is called Sunset Crater National Park.  From the name of it, you would think that you could hike up to the crater, right? Wrong!  You can drive around it, walk around it, and take pictures of the base, but you can't hike up it to look in.  Again, I say LAME!

There is a crater next to Sunset Crater called Lennox Crater, there you CAN hike up the top, but it is far less exciting than I imagine the Sunset Crater to be.  Behind Mark is the San Francisco Peaks, which are absolutely beautiful.

Lennox Crater again

Lennox Crater again

The trail heading down Lennox Crater.  I put so many pictures of the Crater on here so that none of you have to waste your time hiking up to it, which is a very difficult hike!

This is the fabulocity that they allow you to see, at the base of Sunset Crater.

This is as close as you can get to the Sunset Crater.  Again, Lame!

This is how the dogs wait for me to come home.  Roslyn climbs up on the back of the chair so that she won't get stomped on by Polly, which happens frequently.

Today we tried to hike up to Crater Caves.  If you notice where the dogs are, you will see that they are in the shade.  We had to turn around at this point because Polly was about to pass out.  On the way down they would run to a shady spot, then collapse until we caught up and passed them, then they would run to the next shady spot.  Silly dogs!  We plan to actually finish the hike another day, without the dogs.

Handsome Mark.

And that is a little more of Flagstaff!

Flagstaff

While in Utah a couple weeks ago I promised a certain someone that I would blog about Flagstaff.  I just finished my summer semester, so now I have time to do so, at least until I start again at the end of this month.  I am going to start small.  I won't be showing any pictures of our apartment because frankly, it is far from exciting, and not much better than a cardboard box. 

But, we do have a patio, and I started growing some plants on it.  plus, we do have a decent view of the San Francisco mountains from our patio, so I took a picture of that.  More pictures of Flagstaff to come soon! 

This was a beautiful rainbow we got to see on the way back from Utah.  There were actually two, but before I could get my camera out, one had faded so it didn't show up.  It was a really neat sky too, with this hazy orange-ish color. 

Our bell pepper plant, with it's first bell pepper!

All of our plants.  The other big plant is a tomato plant, but still no tomatoes.  My flowers usually look better than this, but right now they are in between blooms.

And this is our view from our patio.  We love Flagstaff, it is so beautiful.

 Any way, I have started to carry around our camera in my purse so that any time I see a beautiful sight, I can take pictures, and maybe get around to posting them.

Hopefully we will have a house in the next year or so, so then we can post pictures of that. 

Mark's first day as a professional

Well, Mark is now officially a pharmacist.  He passed both the NAPLEX and the Arizona MPJE, and we went down to Phoenix on Wednesday to pick up his license so he could start work today. 

While in Phoenix I went to Hobby Lobby, (oh, how I have missed Hobby Lobby!), and got some frames for Mark's school stuff.  Here they are, hanging on our wall finally...

Short update...

Well, we are here in Flagstaff, Arizona, and we really like it.  We like it even more after spending a day in Phoenix, which was painfully hot!

On Monday, Mark took the NAPLEX, the North American Pharmacy License Exam, and his score was posted today, and he passed!  Next step, tomorrow Mark will take the MPJE, Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination, and if he passes, he will be a pharmacist!  We are so excited!

And no more of this!

Saying goodbye to Omaha

Before leaving Omaha, we decided to go to our favorite restaurant, California Tacos.  I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but part of the reason that Mark really likes it is because it used to be California Street Pharmacy.  The story goes, so the owner told us, that his family had owned and operated California Street Pharmacy for many generations.  When it passed to him, he didn't want to be a pharmacist, so he decided to turn it into a Taco shop.  He kept many of the old, (and I mean REALLY old), pharmacy equipmenton display in the restaurant.  The tacos and other menu items are actually pretty good. 

So after a day of packing, we went to say good bye.

This was after a day of packing, so that is why I look so terrible!  But the chips were yummy!

Before we moved we got rid of the couch, and were reduced to the futon.  Whenever I would lay on it, Polly thought she had to join me.  The futon eventually went too.

As we cleaned out the top floor, we moved our desk downstairs.  So Polly then thought she had to be involved in anything we were doing at the desk since it was in the kitchen.