Into the Valley of the Sun --> December 31st (Monday)

I am home! Yay! It’s pretty must really exciting. :) More info in the next blog probably :)

Sooo, we woke up really early this morning, like 6:30 or 7:00 cause of the time change. We wanted to wake up at 8:00, leave at nine, and instead we woke up at 7:00 and left at 8:45. Which, leaving early was better than leaving late. The sun kind of trailed us all morning because of (again) the time change which has the sun come up an hour later. Soo, the sun followed us.

One of the things that my mom told us from the beginning of December was that we needed to know all of our states an capitals before we entered the state of AZ…I didn’t really study or anything, anndd…so we tallied how many we all needed to learn. I…had about 18 to learn, Christian had 10, and Trenton had…I’m not sure…he had a good number, probably the same as me. :) Then we just stupidly studied them…over and over and over and over and over again, for a really long time… blahh…

Driving through the mountains of Northern New Mexico was amazing. It was soo pretty, seeing the sun reflect off the mountains, looking up at a cloudless blue sky that sunk into the horizon…I lovedd it. :) There were also tons of little adobe houses that just sat on the hillsides. It was amazing. :)

Annd, we stopped at the border around 11:00, like literally at the New Mexico/Arizona State-Line, for like 20 minutes so we could say all our state capitals to my parents…which was really a drag…but if you ever want to know the state capitals, ask me… :/

Then, (FINALLY) we crossed the NM/AZ border at 11:26, exactly. Soo, that was a very happy thing, and, at the moment, that meant that we would have only 2 hours till Flagstaff, and then 2 hours home from Flagstaff. That was a very happy thing. :)

It was about 12:15 we realized that from Flagstaff, the I-17 was closed. Apparently they had tons of snow, and a fatality, which caused them to close it all down. Soo, we took a detour of our own and decided to go through Holbrook to Snowflake, and then on to Payson and from there, Scottsdale.

We stopped in Snowflake for a little bit to get lunch at Arby’s…yummy food. :) From there we got back on the road and drove to Holbrook…we sung High School Musical the whole way.

As we were driving down from Holbrook to Payson, we saw a CAMP SHADOW PINES!! Haha…apparently it didn’t burn down. Soo, Trenton saw it, but I missed it, and he was like, ‘look, Camp Shadow Pines!’ He was really excited about it :)

We also saw snow everywhere…but it wasn’t enough to do anything with…

Around 2:45 we stopped at a gas station to get gas…annd, we took pictures on the Uhual. The weather outside was like 55 and it was soo nicee!! I lovedd it! I absolutely LOVE wearing T-shirts, and…this was the perfect opportunity to! We got back in the car then, and we had about an hour till we arrived home. :)

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