Day 1-3.....

Okay (deep breath) now that I'm able to be at home for a little bit I'll have some time to post today. Since I'll be posting pictures from our trip I'm not able to blog at work because the trip pictures are on my home computer. Anyways here I go.....

On February 28 Jason and I boarded a plane to go see my father and his girlfriend in Tucson, Arizona. The night before we were ready to leave we both developed this dry cough. Weren't sure what was going on however the next morning when we both woke up with colds we realized what was happening. I was so upset. I had managed to escape sickness almost all winter so far and the day I'm going away on vacation I get sick (I blame sinus infection Mandi for all the hugs before I left...hee hee hee). So the sinus pressure with flying was wonderful for the both of us. Jason was worse than I was at this point (he actually was worse and not the man idea of being worse than me....for those of you who are married to whinny husbands when they get sick you know what I mean). We had a four hour wait in Toronto before boarding our plane to head to Denver. I thought Jason was going to not make it. He was sweating, had a fever and was nauseous. However I just kept dumping juice and pills down his throat and we made it to Tucson (one hour and a half later because of a delay leaving Denver). So our first day that started at 7:00 am did not finish until 2:30 am. We were a little tired to say the least!

The next day, because we both still aren't feeling so hot, we decided that we would drive around Tucson and look at some things from the car. Tucson is a valley. There are mountains all around. It was so beautiful. However on top of this it's all desert. It was nuts. I was not expecting this at all. I knew that it was a desert but I guess it was not what I was picturing. I don't know. It reminded me of the old coyote and roadrunner cartoons. In fact they even have roadrunners, mind you they aren't as big as the one in the cartoon. Anyways here are some pictures that we took the first day.

This is my dad's RV that we called home for 16 days and took on our adventure.

The mountains surrounding Tucson (they were so beautiful). The next picture are these same mountains but we're now on them. I was shocked when I saw what grew on mountains in Arizona.

Yup those green things that you see everywhere are cactus'. Isn't that crazy? I was so amazed when we walked outside of the airport the night we arrived. There were cactus' everywhere. It was really cool. There are very strict laws regarding these cactus'. You are not allowed to cut one down. In fact if you're caught even breaking an arm of of the cactus' you get in a lot of trouble. I was told that it takes 100 years for an arm to form off the side of a cactus like the one you're going to see in the next picture.

However these ones have not been growing for 100 years because they aren't fully developed yet but I'm sure you get the idea.

So that was about it for the second day. Just drove around looking at stuff but it was so cool to see. The third day my dad and Jason (who is now feeling better) got up bright and early and headed to the golf course. It was very fun watching Jason lug golf clubs all over the place in the Toronto airport. We didn't fight too much going through customs :) Anyways, I stayed in bed that morning and laid on the couch watching TV all day on Friday. I only went out for a drive once that day. I just was feeling too yucky to do anything. Jason was so happy to go golfing!

K, I think that's enough to bore you with for today. Stay tuned, next we'll be heading to California!