A Day at the Zoo

As you might know Jared is a school bus driver. Every morning he wakes up, puts on his bus driving polo shirt and drives rowdy elementary school students to and from school. His job doesn't have many perks except: working around his class schedule, really good pay, giving us every holiday off and my favorite, getting to go on field trips.

Last week Jared got to drive to the Wildlife World Zoo in Lichfield Park, AZ. Hunter and I met Jared there and spent the day with our favorite bus driver. The Wildlife World Zoo is an awesome zoo with Arizona's largest collection of exotic animals. They have over 6000 individual animals representing more than 600 exotic locations. Hunter had a grand time cruising around in his stroller and looking at all of the animals.

This pond had giant gold fish.

What zoo isn't complete without a flamingo exhibit?

My two favorite men in the world.

The famous white tiger.

Lakes and Legos

Wow. We have been out of school for almost a week! I have been so busy with trying to catch up from the semester that it feels like forever since I was in school. So far this week I have managed to organize our apartment, clean out the cupboards, lounge around on our giant love sac and bake some delicacies. I am happy to note that after organizing the apartment our rouge brownie has not been so treasonist. It must be happy with the acknowledgment from my last blog entry and the extra space I was able to find for it.

Sunday Jared and I actually had time to go on a scenic drive without feeling guilty. We headed out to Lake Mary (which is just outside of town). After sitting along the banks of Lake Mary for a while we starting getting frustrated because there were no rocks to skip. We then decided to head up the road to Marshall Lake The views of the San Fransisco Peaks were heavenly from there.

Marshall Lake & the San Fransisco Peaks

The rest of the week consisted of working random hours, enjoying the beautiful chilly weather and socializing with the outside world. Wednesday night a friend asked us to watch her two year old son. Immediately Jared saw this as a opportunity to dig out his tub of Legos. I think Jared had more fun than the kid we were watching, but that is why I love my husband.

Our next adventure will begin in a few minutes when Jared finally gets off of work. We are heading to the Frisbee golf course to perfect our Frisbee throwing skills. You never know when skills like that might come in handy. Wish me luck.

A quick glimpse of my sexy husband

Chocolate Falls, AZ

Jared and I are on a continual quest for adventure in our lives. With the new addition to our family (the amazing Canon EOS Rebel) we feel that we need to capture the beauty surrounding our lives. Last week Jared had some down time at work and was leafing through some magazines. In a nature magazine he read about Grand Falls which is about 45 minutes east of Flagstaff on the Navajo Reservation. To get to the falls you drive on unmarked, unpaved roads. This sounded like a perfect Saturday afternoon activity and so we convinced some friends to come with us and we went.

Before we left I preformed some scholarly research on the these falls. We discovered that the rock face of these falls is 185 feet. This is higher than Niagara Falls. Grand Falls feeds from the Little Colorado River which is fed from snow melt and rain. This is why the water is so muddy. With all the snow this last winter Grand Falls is flowing quite heavily but during the summer months the falls dry up to solely a trickle. My reliable internet sources tell me that it is also called Chocolate Falls, Mud Fall or the Niagara Falls of Arizona. These falls are absolutely stunning. I tried to capture the magnificence with my camera but that was near impossible.