Six years of marriage? Holy cow!

 

Will and I just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary this past weekend. I can’t believe it’s been that long already. Now, if you ask Will he’d tell you, “What? Only six years? It feels like forever!”

For our anniversary we went up to Sedona. We wanted to go to California to see where he grew up in East South Central L.A., but ended up running short on money. Then we decided to go to Vegas. But, we bought our van and used some of our savings to do that. So we settled on just going up north. We had no itinerary, no reservations, nothing. We just went. I’ve never done anything like that. I can’t tell you how free we felt. The girls spent the weekend with my sister so we were all by ourselves. That’s another thing that does not happen often.

Unfortunately, Will worked the Friday night/Saturday morning before we left so he was going up there on no sleep. This meant that I had to drive. Now, let me tell you a little something about me if you don’t know already. I have these insane fears. Fears of heights, fears large things, fears of open spaces, fears of enclosed spaces, fears of driving, fears of the unknown… hell, fears of about everything. Me having to drive the entire way up there was a major thing. I have never done it before. After this trip I don’t think I will ever have to worry about that again. I loved driving. It was so beautiful. The weather was perfect.

We went into Sedona first, drove through Oak Creek Canyon and went to Slide Rock. Have you been to Slide Rock before? I haven’t been there since I was a kid. In my childhood we camped a couple times every year in Oak Creek Canyon and we would go to Slide Rock. I remember the Slide Rock of my childhood as being FULL of water. Not anymore. The water levels have really dropped. After Slide Rock we drove to the trout pond. My husband thought he remembered doing catch and release fishing there before. That also isn’t the same. It turns out you have to buy whatever you catch, and since we didn’t know if we were going to drive home that day or spend the night up there we didn’t want to chance stinking up our new van with rotten fish so we just left. Bummer.

We spent the majority of the day messing around in Sedona, then decided to drive to Jerome. My grandfather (my Dad’s dad) was born there. Will slept during the drive up there. Let me tell you, the roads to the mountain that Jerome is set into are very twisty and the drops off of it are very steep. It was fun! We got up into Jerome and toured Douglas mansion. We took tons of pictures. Finally it was time to go home. We opted to do that since by this point Will has been awake for over 24 hours.

It was a fun day, with no timelines, no demands, nothing to tie us down. I can’t wait to do it again!