The last couple months we have been trying to enjoy the outdoors all we can before the end of the good weather and the start of hell season. We had a really mild winter here, several degrees above normal and hardly any freezes. Of course I predicted with a mild/warm winter we would have a cooler summer. Until last week it looked like I would be wrong. It was 100 degrees in the valley the last week of April and they were predicting a much cooler than normal May. Everyone though it was crazy but here we are on May 8th with a high in the mid sixties instead of the 90s. Anyways so even if we have a mild winter it's still 100+ days over a 100 degrees and it's gonna suck so we're enjoying the weather while we can.
A couple months ago we took the kids to a train park in Scottsdale. They have model trains, an old presidential train from before Air Force One (I forgot who all rode in it but I know that FDR did), and they have a mini train for rides across the park. It was a good way to burn a couple hours.
Shortly after that we discovered Cave Creek. I have put a couple post on that one but not our last trip. On our last trip we were going to do a four mile hike with the kids. But when we got there it was pushing 90 degrees, there's no shade, and I just wasn't feeling it. So instead we decided to look for the Michelin Man Saguaro. We had tried to find it on two previous trips but got bad directions. It's less than a half mile from the start of the Slate Trail and this time we found it. It's a really cool cactus. There are only five like this in the world and they are all around gold mines. They think the chemicals in the run off water makes the cactus mutate.
A couple weeks ago we went to CA for my dad's 55 birthday. I don't have any pictures from that trip except the one below with Zach wearing an army helmet. It was a short but fun trip. They just opened a new Mr. Taco by my dad's house so we ate there 4 times in five days. It was so good. I got to go to Bass Pro with my dad and Zach. I was a little miserable all weekend though because I didn't bring a sweater. It was nearly 100 here that week and we got there and it was cold all weekend.
A couple days after we got back Natalie's aunt and uncle came into town. We got to take a short trip up to Sedona and Natalie got to hike up Daisy Mountain with her uncle one morning. I had already made the trip up that peak they morning before they got in so I wasn't up for another trip. I did the 7 miles in just under 3 hours which would have been even shorter if not for the encounter I made with a rattlesnake. I was down the mountain and heading towards the car when I heard the snake rattling. I looked down in a creek bed and saw him moving away from me. I decided I wanted to get some pictures and instead of moving straight down the creek I went around thinking it would be easier. Thing is when I got down to the area where the snake was I didn't know exactly where it was. So I crossed back over the creek only 4-5 feet away from the snake not knowing it was there. It was only when I turned around I could see him on the other side of the bush from where I just came from. I took some pictures and a video, got him good and mad, and sent him on his way.
Other than that nothing much new going on here. Zach is still not walking. It's not that he can't, it's just that he's scared and lazy. He is starting to pick up a few words. Mama, Papa, Up, Walk, and then he just grunts and screams for everything else.
@ Cave Creek
Latitude 33.82936
Longitude -111.99535
Zach loves his mangoes.
Kids playing in the water.
My rattlesnake encounter. I crossed this dried up creek bed just to the left of this bush this snake was next to.
@Sedona
Zach fell asleep eating his food the other night. This was after waking him up two times. I guess it would have been that much funnier if I got the whole thing. We had to wake him up because I was afraid he was gonna choke on his food.
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