Day 8 Cross Country Adventure

We came into Sedona in the dark. Waking up to today was awesome. Very beautiful out. Sunny, not too freezing. I wore a sweater and a scarf around my neck, but that was it.

View of the area from downtown Sedona.

We decided to walk around Downtown Sedona for a little during the late morning. While Ilana bought gifts for her family, the woman who sold them to her went from totally normal, to crazy hippy cat lady in about 5 seconds flat. She chewed our ear off for about twenty minutes about Ilana's name and how it sounded like the name her sister picked for her cat. They're into the whole mixing Judaism and Buddhism, and New Age all into one spiritual package, so they picked the word Aliya. Because it had something to do with the kedusha, and then she got into saying how she was in a robbery at a jewelry store she worked in years ago, and how she repeated the kedusha in her head over and over, and "it saved her life! It was a miracle." For real, where do these people come from.

On the way from Sedona back to the hotel. Moon is already showing at 4 pm.

Anyway, Ilana's relatives came in from Scottsdale and very nicely took us to lunch. Then we walked around this art village thing called Tlaquepaque (pronounced telakepakee by the locals). By the time they left it was a little after 4. Ilana and I sort of hung around until dinner time. Went to this awesome pizza and salad Italian family restaurant. Delicious. And we also had locally brewed beer- she the amber and me the nut brown.
We're packing it in early because tomorrow we get up super early to meet up with our guide in Flagstaff who will take us to the Grand Canyon for our day hike. There will be many pictures. I promise. Sorry for no pictures today either. Internet connection in this hotel is too damn slow. Sooo, perhaps when we get to LA, I can finally post some more.