Getting away from the Heat....


So living in AZ you have to get pretty used to the heat as it is so hot outside all the time! I grew up in NV and it is the same way so i guess you could say i should be pretty used to it by now. A couple weekends ago my freinds and I decided to go up to Rachelle's cabin to get away from it.

Her cabin is up in pinetop which is right outside of payson. So it is about 3 hours outside of tempe, we took off on Friday right after we could all get off work and get going. There was seven of us total that went up there, 3 girl and 4 guys so it worked out pretty well. One group left in the morning and the other in the afteroon. The ride up there was pretty comical Jennie, Mike and i rode together and we just sang and joked around all the way up there. It was pretty cool up there and because i was not thinking i forgot to bring a sweatshirt luckily Jennie packed two! That night we just chilled in the back yard and checked out the stars I forgot how much better you can see them once you are out of the city it is so amazing. Rachelles grandparents were up there and made us dinner that night as well it was so yummy.








Making funny faces in the back yard!
Saturday morning after we all rolled out of bed and was fed yet again by her grandma we all took a vote on what the activities would be for the day. The consensus was that we would go to the skii lift and ride it up to the top and have a picknick up there. Little did we know that it was going to be freezing up there! It was so beautiful up there though, the lift ride was pretty cool and different when you do not have a snowboard attached to your feet. It is pretty green in the summer you will see with the pics.



After we got back from the skii lifts we were all pretty tired(okay maybe that was just me!) and took some naps while the boys went out and palyed this game called pickle ball. I have never played it is like a mix of ping pong and tenis put together. Pretty entertaining, we just watched then right after we started racing on these little skitter mobils they where funny, probably cause they are for little kids and we are to big for them! After all that we ended up heading home for the night as we had a 3 hour drive ahead of us. Overall it was a great trip!

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