Remembering Schnebly Hill

On January 19, 2019, we drove to Sedona! We wanted to drive down Schnebly Hill Road as far as we could, and scope out cool places to camp as we got closer to Flagstaff and make sure we'd be able to pull the pop up there some time.

Here's Chanel looking insane peaking over the seat at us- She's not long necked enough to be doing this when she's laying down, but she somehow makes it work. Silly girl! Haha!

It was a really pretty drive! There are a lot of Jeep tours that go down that road. There was one tour company that painted their Jeeps in tiger stripes, and every time those drove passed us, all the passengers would "Wooooo!" It was pretty entertaining. In contrast, one of the more popular Jeep companies had folks in the back looking unimpressed or texting in theirs. Funny!

 We had been driving for awhile, and rounded a corner, and boom- the road was closed! Oops! Chris had even checked to make sure it was open all the way to the Flagstaff side before we left. But it was no biggie. We still got to see so much of the pretty Sedona side. We stopped where the road closed, and hiked up the hill. There was a pretty sweet climbing tree that I scurried up for a minute. Chanel was super excited to be able to stop and smell EVERYTHING. And we can always count on Chloe to be our little adventure pup, jumping from rock to rock. 

The view at the top was beautiful! Chris and I were taking a selfie, and a nice man asked if we'd like  to have him take a picture for us. I gave him my phone, and let him know he just had to touch the little white circle on the screen. We were posing, and he was messing with my phone, but said that he wasn't sure if he had gotten it to work. We thanked him anyway, and he gave me my phone- turns out he had somehow taken 30 pictures! Haha!

There was a whole family up on the mountain and they were having a great time. The kids were trying to make their voices echo, and it was comical to hear. The little girl saw our dogs and was obsessed with them. She and her little brother were barking like dogs to them. It was pretty cute. 

We left Sedona, and headed to Payson through Camp Verde. That drive is so pretty! 

We spent the rest of the weekend in Payson to celebrate Nana's 83rd birthday. That next morning, me, Chris and Veronica went out to go pick up Dutch Bros. Then we picked up treats for Nana- we went to Mackey's Grill to pick up a whole coconut pie, and then to Country Charm to pick her up some Jelly Bellies. 

Joey was in town hiking Horton Creek with his dog Jack. He came over after and we all ate pulled pork sandwiches together and played Loaded Questions.