Tim and Sierra: Date Day Up North!

(S) With keeping up my goal of updating the blog quicker after an event I thought I should do this now rather than later. So....last Saturday Tim and I both lucked out with having the day off. Being the AMAZING girlfriend I am ;) I planned a date day for us. Since Tim has never been to northern AZ I took him up to see the sights! While planning, I had to take into account that I was dog sitting two pups so we had to do things that we could take them with.

We took off early Saturday morning and headed up to Jerome, AZ. For those of you unfamiliar, Jerome is an old ghost mining town. Now is houses tons of quaint little shops that go up the mountain and you can check out some of the historic older buildings. Unfortunately, they were doing maintenance and construction in the old mining area so we couldn't check that out, but we did go through all of the shops and enjoy the town. Since we had the two dogs we would take turns sitting outside with them while the other person was shopping in the little shops. I completely scored at around 11am because there was an adorable winery that I wanted to check out. I went inside hoping to buy a bottle and what do ya know! They were doing a wine tasting. So I hung out and listened to them explain the different wines and got to try about 4-5 wines (hey, it was 5 o'clock somewhere!). Unfortunately, none of them "sold" me so I didn't buy one, but it was fun to try them all. The last shop we went into was a christmas store. Tim watched the dogs while I ran in and it was FULL wall to wall with Christmas ornaments. It was my idea to start collecting ornaments from everywhere we visit so we can have a christmas tree to show all of our adventures, so I bought a brass Christmas bell that said "Jerome, AZ" on it. It was fabulous in my opinion.

After Jerome, our adventures led us to the Red Rock State Park. Unfortunately, the pups weren't allowed inside so instead we went to a park right up the road where they were allowed. We had a picinic lunch there and then walked along a trail that follwed Oak Creek. About halfway into our walk we went to the water and tried to get the dogs to go in. James, a Boston Terrier was stoked to go in and was instantly as deep in the water as he could get while still standing. Baja was a little more anxious. He would get in up to his lower belly, and then decided he didn't want to be in and would just back onto dry land. Then he would get back in....and jump back out! That repeated multiple times over until Tim and I were soaked from them. We finished our hike and decided into town. By this time, the dogs were getting tired but Tim and I kept dragging them along. We went to downtown Sedona and walked through all of the shops down there. By the end of the walk we were practically dragging the dogs along. Whenever Tim or I went into a store the dogs instantly laid down outside to rest. What bums!

Eventually we got back to the car and drove to a small restaurant my parents recommended to me which is called the Hideaway. It had an outdoor patio so we could take the dogs to sit with us while we ate. The second we sat down the dogs were instantly passed out. No joke. Tim and I ordered the Dieter's Demise pizza which was ironic because I broke my diet to eat it. haha! But it was basically a supreme pizza that was chock full of delicious-ness. After dinner we drove back (dogs slept the whole way) and went to Toy Story 3. Which I highly recommend to all! Overall, it was a great trip. I loved it. Tim loved it. And the pups did too!