Sedona Picture Blog

Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village of Sedona

tlaquepaque whirligigs

Mother & Child sculpture

Buddha, etc.

fountain

American Indian sculptures

Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona AZ

Chapel of the Holy Cross mailbox & handyman

Chapel of the Holy Cross

Chapel of the Holy Cross side view

copper statue of St Francis of Assissi in garden of Chapel of the Holy Cross

inside the Chapel of the Holy Cross

Views of the Red Mountains of Sedona

view from Schnebly Hill

view from our hotel balcony

our new friend, The Lizard

me, meditating in the Vortex

view on the Red Rock Loop Road

Dreaming During the Decimation

While the Sox got crushed in an annoying and frustrating defeat tonight, I played on Mom's laptop and fantasized about a trip to Europe, as discussed in the previous post.

So, I'd go in late March, because no one goes in late March, so it'd be cheap. I want to go to Munich because I saw Samantha Brown there once and she looked like she was having a fantastic time.

This is my fantasy itinerary that I can't afford but it was fun to think about during the slaughter of Sox:

3/23 1130 AM leave Logan
3/24 530 AM arrive Frankfurt (because it's the cheapest flight), 530 - 12 Frankfurt things, 130 leave for Paris
3/24 - 3/26 Paris, leave for Strasbourg at some time in the early evening
3/26 - 3/27 Strasbourg for a day
3/27 - 3/29 Munich, leave on last train out of Munich
3/29 - 3/30 Frankfurt, leave at 11 AM

It makes a good little diamond and the train rides are usually 3-5 hours. Not bad, eh?

And I could get a 2 country Europass for 400 hundred and I don't care where I stay, so long as I have a bed to sleep in that isn't too gross. But I may be able to stay with someone in Paris, so that would be the most expensive thing, besides the airfare...Anyway, that's all just a dream and it won't probably happen but it's fun to think about it.

The Bean at Millennium Park and Other Chicago Things

So, I went to Chicago last week. It was very very fun. Here's the itinerary, with links and some photos:

Thu nite : Lou Malnati's Deep Dish Pizza - yummmmm

Thu nite cont: The Union, I believe - half off drinks! Sadly, Cubs lost

Fri day: downtown, architectural boat tour, TJ Maxx to buy a jacket because it was colder than I anticipated, Chicago Burger

Fri nite: Red Sox bar called Tripoli Tap. It was more fun to watch the playoffs at a sports bar in a sports town that wasn't Boston but was a Boston sports bar. The crowd was way into it.

Sat day: Wrigleyville to take obligatory photo and shop for obligatory souvenirs. Took the El. Then we separated. I went to the Chicago Public Library, because I am a nerd. Then I went back to the souvenir shop because I left my camera there and the nice young man in the Yankee hat who worked there -- that I had given a hard time to the first time I was there because he was wearing a Yankee hat...but anyway -- found it and set it aside for me. When I got back to Wrigley, though, I saw some seriously funky shtuff. It deserves and will get its own blog.

Sat nite: dinner at Ballo then Second City. Second City had some funny skits but some of it was flat. It was still enjoyable though. and who knows, may be one of them is the next Stephen Colbert or Tina Fey and we can say, "We knew him/her when..."

Sun: I went on my own to Millennium Park and even though I was solo, it was my favorite thing. I think I might dedicate a later post with a bunch of my cool photos from there, because I got a bunch. Then I met up with everyone at the Hancock Tower. Then we left Chicago.


It was fun and I'd like to go back again to visit Kat elyn now that she lives there. I want to go to the Field Museum and the Art Institute because I missed that. Plus I'd like to to go Wrigleyville at night.

But for now, I am concentrating all of my traveling efforts, I've decided, on somewhere in mainland Europe, because I've never been and I really would like to.

Up next on the travel section of the blog: my weekend in Martha's Vineyard. Good times! And now I'm broke! But this is what happens when one works part time and goes on vacation two weeks in a row...

(Thank goodness I'm now fully employed, as of today!)

FYI-Minimal Posting Until Thursday

Since I'm in Baltimore, I won't be posting anything significant until I'm back in Boston (Thursday night.)

So far, we've just hung out in Me lissa's town house and watched native Baltimorean Michael Phelps win the 8th gold medal. (11,000 people down the road and MT Bank (really? Empty Bank? what's up with that?) also watched...)

Today was Annapolis and now I have crabs. Ha ha get it? Navy joke. Anyway, for real I'm going to get crabs to eat and for real I saw some cute men in Navy uniforms at the Academy. Annapolis is pretty.

More later--with pictures even!