My weekend 4/-28-30

Not much to report.
Saturday 4/28
Did projects around the RV.  Had a surprise visit with Bill Hansen. He was on his way to Sante Fe NM in his RV.   Off to Flagstaff to see the 630p movie Titantic in 3D.  Very good.
Sunday 4/29
Four of us (co-workers ) headed to Flag to see the 1030am  movie- the Raven.  Cool movie. Lunch then back here for a nap :).
sunday evening:  Tonight is the Board of Directors dinner at the visitor center. About  36 people. Nice. Food was very good- prime rib. Fun to meet and chat with the Directors.
Monday 4/30
Beautiful morning.  Decided to take a ride to Sedona . A few stops for geocaching.

sunday- cocktail hr. waiting for Directors to arrive.

Heading to Sedona

yes a geocache at the base.

Geo in Show Low 4/22

Sunday 4/22 in show low
Met up with Bill/Chuck around noon for some geocaching.  We stayed in the Pinetop area but went to 3 differnt locations.  Show Low lake, Woodland lake (Spring trail) & Sky Hi area. Over all we hiked about 5 miles.   Chinese food around 5pm.  We were beat.  :)  But a very nice day.  Back at the condo at 7pm.  Enjoyed sitting on the balcony.   We found 11 geocaches.

1st cache- at the small race track near the SL airport

Show low lake

Called arrowhead series.  This is #1. Log sheet is hidden at the end tip. The tip had to be pulled.

Cool cache called the Rocket

One of the trails going into the forrest

1 mile hike to this cache. Its the Thompson creek.

awesome

me,chuck & bill

Chuck/Bill returning to trail.  Cache was near the big tree

More creeks

Hiking the spring trail

Trail head

After getting the cache we enjoyed the view of Scott's lake

Canyon view from the Diamond trail

old walk bridge- not in use now

so one has to jump rocks

Condo balcony view at 7pm

To showlow sat 4/21

Saturday 4/21
Yeaaa my day off.  After doing some projects around the RV.  I headed to Show Low, which
is a thr from MC.   Arrived about 2:30p at TJ's condo. Got it open, water turned on, etc. I closed it last Nov.  Then about 4pm met with Bill/Chuck for dinner  at the Red Devil in Pinetop. Joined by 3 other gals.  Nice visit then back to the condo. Going geocaching tomorrow.

geocaching Phx/Scottsdale 4/15

sunday 4/15
My co-workers  kathy/derek were coming down to Phx from Prescott valley.  They had booked a room at a Scottsdale Resort thru Hotwire.   They came to my hotel. Then a breakfast across the street at that Dinner I did yesterday.   Off to do some geocaching in the area by walking to them. We found 5 of them.  Then a drive to Scottsdale to get them checked in. After that we did some geocaching in the area and along the canal. Fun. Dinner at Applebees.  Back to my hotel around 7pm.
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Monday 4/16
Checked out. Drove to Cliff casino. Yes won some and got out of there.  Stopped in Flagstaff for a oil change for the jeep.  Back here, MC. around 4pm

Breakfast at the Dinner

Desert Storm Park- very nice

At the Scottsdale resort.  Derek/Kathy

Finding goodies in the grass

geocaching at a cementary

Derek climbed the tree to get the container

Our last geocache of the day.

Phx/opera 4/14

4/14 saturday evening
Once again arrived at Phx convention Ctr/ Symphony Hall. Opera is Orfeo Ed Euridice, sung in Italian with english supertitles.  Premiered in Vienna 10/5/1762.  Composer Chris Gluck 1714-1787).
Story of a young man who loses his wife. He plans to take his life in order to join her. The goddess of love is moved by his despair.  He is allowed to go to the underworld to claim her. There is one one condition; he must not look at her or speak to her  until they have returned to the upper world. So.......... hmmm

opera program

Inside  convention ctr

In sym. hall

Nice harp music before the performance @7:30

Snow storm/Phx 4/14

Saturday  4/14   going to Phoenix to see the opera.
Well I left here about 10am.  Did get some snow the night before here at the Rv park.  Approaching Winnona you can see lots of snow, then it started snowing.  Not bad to Flagstaff on I-40.  Then turned onto I-17 south. Wow, now its really snowing. It was this way for 20 miles. Just going slow. At one point the two lane was down to  one do to much snow.... and it kept coming down.  Once out of it, turned to light rain.  Stopped at Cliff casino for a break, to calm down my nerves.   Then continue to Phoenix. Checked into the Hotel off of I-17/Camelback rd. Very nice. Like a studio.  Booked this thru Hotwire for $32 plus tax to $47.   Room goes for $70.  Later had a early dinner at the 5th & Dinner across the street. Very cool.  The 50's dinner. Good food.  Then got ready for the opera downtown Phx. About a 15 min drive.

hwy I-40

hwy I-40

Hotel called Extened Stay Phx

room with sofa

room pic- nice

Dinner across the street

Saturn/Fagstaff geocaching 4/

4/09   Monday
Geocaching adventure.   35 caches were published a week ago.  As stated, one cannot find all these in
one trip.   The area is located off of 89A (about 3mi south of Fair grounds) and into the forest.  There were five of us: kathy/derek, kim, Bob(kathy's dad) & me.  Lots of hiking.  Up and down hills. A real work out but fun.   We found 11 and two we could not find.  Ran into some geocachers. Great weather day in the forest.

geocaching pattern- 35 caches

our first stop

reach for the container

the one we couldn't find. Bob & us going down into the canyon.

Snow.  me & derek

cool area

Forest road we came in and out on.

Rt66 geocaches 4/8

4/8 & 4/9   sat/sun
May 4 2012  is a three day weekend event to celebrate the Route 66 which is part of the  Arizona Centennial (1912-2012). The towns of Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Kingman and others are having different events scheduled for the 3 day event.  One can see more info at www.azrt66.com .  Someone who knows geocaching has worked with these Town Visitors centers to place geocaching continers.  Winslow and Flagstaff placed 11 of them.  On saturday, I found the ones in Winslow and sunday found Flagstaff geocaches.   Great adventure, because each site was some type of history. In the container was a picture and a write up.  Route 66 was really something special. The beginning of travel motels, fastfood, etc   

Winslow: Brigham city late 1800. Only the walls are at the site.