June 15th “Its 42 degrees…”

June 15th “Its 42 degrees…”

…in Celsius that is! That translates into 110 degrees Fahrenheit! We arrived in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday June 14th. When we got off the plane, it was 110 degrees. Aaron’s childhood friend Kevin Korczyk and his beautiful fiancée Valerie live in Mesa and they let us stay at their house. The house was beautiful with a pool in the back and the back porch had “mist-ers” with a nice spray of water to cool you. It was wonderful for us to get together and catch up and (for me) to meet new friends. We stayed with Kevin and Val for the day on sunday and took off for the Grand Canyon. The drive going into a place called verde valley was awesome. The sun was setting against the valley and it was just BEAUTIFUL! Flagstaff is the closest big city to the Grand Canyon so we stopped there for starbucks and took the scenic route to GC. Unfortunately, the sun sets around 7:45pm and so we drove thru it in the dark. It was still a pretty drive with all the trees…

tha-thunk.

…dead rabbit.

We were even looking for animals on the side of the road! Anyway, we arrived very late and the canyon was closed. Luckily, there is a camp ground just outside of GC and so we slept there- in the car (everyone who knows that aaron is not a big plan-aheader is smiling right now). Not highly recommended. Needless to say, our first night on the road was cold and uncomfortable. Maybe we will get lucky with the campground in GC tomorrow.