Showing posts with label Carter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carter. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Sedona Day Trip

Monday we headed up to Sedona/Cottonwood area to enjoy the beauty as well and get some fishing in. It is about 2 hours north of us. We headed to Dead Horse Ranch with is a National Park just outside of Cottonwood. It has 2 Lagoons, a ton of hiking trails and places that you can camp. The Verde River also runs through the park. We stopped at the second Lagoon and Nate took his pontoon boat out to see if he could catch anything. The area around the lagoon was big enough to cast off of shore, but he wanted to see what it was like out in the middle. Carter and I ate lunch in the car and then bundled up to go hike around. We got a Ketly Kids backpack for Christmas and I wanted to try it out, but he did not want to have anything to do with it. It was a two person job to get him in and he wanted to walk on his own. It was chilly ( mid 40's) but that didn't stop us.


We made it half way down the path and Carter found some rocks to throw. Then we got up to Daddy and watched him for a bit. He caught 3 just while we were standing there. Then Carter ventured back to his favorite look out point and back to the car. So we did not get much of a hike in.




However Carter had so much fun playing in the car and pretending he was driving.




I knew that Nate would be on the Lake until dark, so we brought our lap top so we could watch a movie and hopefully Carter would fall asleep. After we played and danced in the car for awhile I put in Finding Nemo and Put carter in he seat. He fell asleep after about 10 minutes and sleep through the whole movie. When we were headed out we stopped by the river to check it out and Nate saw some fish rising which made him NEED to fish it. So he rigged up again and spent 30 minutes fishing until it was really dark. Last time we were in Sedona we discovered this great pizza place, Picazzo's. They have a few in the valley, but we knew that is were we wanted to go to eat. It was about 20 mile to Sedona, but well worth it. We had a great day and will probably make a Christmas tradition out of it.