Goal #14007 Become a Cacti Farmer

While in Arizona, I found out I live cacti, they have so many cool shapes and colors! I wanted some at my house, but since we flew down and had limited baggage, I accepted that we'd have to find some in salt lake. While visiting an old ghost town, there was a cactus sales lady and she had so many different styles and a sign "cactus can fly", so I quickly googled it and found that the tsa allows cactus to fly in your carryon so of course I had to buy three and overstuff all of our bags but my cacti are growing well. It took a while to get the guts to transplant them but once we moved it was time and they are now living outside and thriving in this hot weather!!

Goal #2541 Honeymoon #2 Phoenix Arizona Dec 2011

With a goal to go on a trip every three months, the day after I finished finals we boarded a plan to head down to sunny Arizona!

We then picked up this super NERDY car, it was so small, nothing like a Chevy Aveo Hatchback for a fun little trip.

 We then traveled down to Tuscon where Kyle's uncle Alan and aunt Ruth live and we stayed the first night with them. After having some delicious omelets and attending their ward Christmas party, we settled in and watched a movie.

The next day we went to Colossal Cave National Monument  

Lots of neat things that are all over. The local robbery hide out from the olden days that was then opened up and turned into a place for visitors through the CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps. It was different from Lehman Caves here in Utah because it was a dry cave rather than a wet one. So if you aren't traveling to Arizona anytime soon, head down to Lehman Caves which is only like 4 hours away from SLC.

What a beautiful day for mid December!

 Sorry I didn't turn any of the pictures, but I have a really good old western face

 Even though I may have died.....

 We could have lived in a sweet adobe house!

 Or traveled the Old Spanish Trail

We spent the afternoon with Kyle's cousins Sam and Sunny and they took us to their favorite Mexican Place. Where I had a delicious Mexican Hot Dog and Kyle had a quesadilla - both delicious!!

 Kyle hanging with his cousins....

 Then they tried to shove him in the pond

 In Arizona, they don't have the luxury of having snow all over. So instead you can purchase it in small boxes and have fake snow in your house!

 They also have Sand houses where Santa can sit.....

 We went to a sweet Christmas Light Show with Clint and Amy and had some delicious Chinese food

Kyle also survived a day full of shopping - where we got tons of great clothes for great prices
So the rest of the pictures are on my other camera and there is way too many anyways so I'll give a brief synopsis of our trip and maybe show you the rest of the pictures someday.
Purchased some awesome cacti that are now happily living in our backyard(more pics later).
We had lots of fun with Clint and Amy - played lots of games, toured a wild west town and went to some wild west shows. Ate lots of delicious food. We also went to the most fantastic movie theater I have ever been too....we had recliners!! I am not a fan of the movie theater, I find them to be over priced and grungy. But now that we have been to that very nice theater - Kyle is going to have a much harder time convincing me to go around here....
Kyle had a terrible toothache the whole time we were down there and had a couple sleepless nights but besides that we had lots of fun! Definitely a perfect trip for December....although we got lots of funny looks due to our shorts and summer apparel!