Sunday, September 23, 2018

Dawn and Stuart Visit - September 2018

Keith, Shawna, Stuart, Dawn
 Keith's friend Dawn from his University of Surrey days was doing a west coast tour with her husband Stuart - we were excited to host them for a day of their whirlwind tour.  As they were driving down from the Grand Canyon, we met them for a day in Sedona.  It required us to get up at 4:30am and leave by 5:45, but with no traffic we made it into Sedona in only 1:45.  We had planned to meet them at the Java CafĂ© next to the Pink Jeep Tours office so they arrived in time for us to chat 30 minutes before our Broken Arrow tour.   We went for a bit of a walk down the main street of Sedona before driving over to The Hudson for lunch.  The food was as good as last time: we shared some bruschetta and pretzel bread to start and then had the Kale salad and Chopped salad.

Pink Jeep Tour
After lunch, we hiked around Bell and Courthouse - it was 95 degrees so a bit hot, but gorgeous scenery as always.  It was then a drive home to cool off in the pool with margaritas and guacamole before our dinner of flank steak, sausages, elote, and sweet potato stackers.  We managed to also plow through three bottles of wine and a taste of the cider brandy they brought us!

Dawn and Shawna
We slept in until 8am on Sunday - having a relaxing morning before leaving at 11am for a Taliesin West tour.  We then convoyed over to the Cornish Pasty Shop for lunch before Dawn and Stuart drove away to get to Santa Barbara for their next overnight.

Taliesin West