Spectacular sunrise the day before Thanksgiving.
We typically stay in town for Thanksgiving. It was my mom’s favorite holiday. This year, six months before the trip, we made reservations for McDowell Mountain and Usery Mountain Regional Parks. That’s how it is nowadays, if you want to stay at either one of these Maricopa County Parks you need to book that far in advance. Well, our niece Alex and her family recently moved to Prescott, so we canceled the Usery part of the trip and spent four nights with them.
Alex is my cousin Kahl’s daughter. Yeah, yeah, I know, that technically makes her my first cousin once removed. F that stuff, we are her uncle and aunt and she’s our niece. Her two brothers, Thomas and Chris, are our nephews. We are really close with all of them. Whenever we can spend time with them it’s a big treat. And now all three of them have kids. Being a grandparent must be really special, it’s special for us just being a great uncle and aunt.
Alex told us over and over that her horseshoe driveway was steep. She wasn’t kidding!
Miles and his great uncle
Alex and Amelia, happy together
Amelia, Miles, and Jackson. We all did one lap around the court house plaza before heading over to Bill’s for pizza on Wednesday night.
If you happen to find yourself in downtown Prescott you must go to Bill’s. The pizza was excellent.
Nice whimsical to go boxes
I squeezed in one ride on Wednesday while the girls and Miles hiked. This is the aptly named Tunnel Vision trail.
They adventured off the fire road and got on single track. I heard there were a few precarious moments.
Thanksgiving Day we all went out for a little fresh air stroll.
Grand Canyon Black Tarantula. It was a real surprise seeing him.
She’s still completely smitten with him.
Jackson, Miles, Amelia, and Alex on their big Christmas tree cutting day outside of Williams. I was a little under the weather and stayed home.
The perfect one
Amelia cut down a little one and we brought it back to San Diego.
What a great thing! A kid playing in the dirt.
Adios Prescott. I’m sure we’ll be back soon, now that we have family there.
What a good looking family and nice to have them close!
Really nice! Amelia was so happy!