Monday morning we slept in and took our time getting our proverbial together. Since the complimentary breakfast was in another building, we skipped it and went to the Waffle House. I haven't been in one of those in years! We had checked the local yellow pages for quilt stores. Found about 4 or 5. Mapped them out and off we went. A couple patterns, a few fat quarters and frivolity in 3 stores. Kokopelli or Southwest Decorative Fabrics was our favorite. Spent quite a bit of time there. When they heard we were from WI, they asked if we were the "runaway Dems". We were called Thelma and Louise at Block Party when in IA. They had quite a variety of fabrics. Now it was 1:30, so we decided to hit the road. As Lois was looking at the map, she called Mary in 'Flagstaff to see if we could come now, as long as we were already north. We pulled in around 6:30. Mary & Doug had the bubbly on ice waiting for us. And it flowed.
Tuesday morning Mary had the coffee and coffee cake ready for us. Conversations. Doug left for golf in Sedona. Lois and I left to check out the quilt store on the other side of town. Mary had some errands and appointments. We got back around 12:30 and helped ourselves to lunch. Mary was back as we were finishing. Then we were off to Williams to the Mercantile. More fat quarters for the stash! A trip across the street to a Rte 66 store. Lois got a cap for Jimmy. Back to Mary's. She started din din and put it in the oven. They only have dial-up service at their house and I didn't ask to use their computer, so that's why you haven't heard from me. Now the red wine came out before dinner and along with dinner. Doug was entertaining us with music from the 60's and some of his favorites. And the Irish Mist was flowing for him.
This morning we had coffee and coffee cake again. Mary and Lois in her Caddie and I followed behind down the Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona. What a gorgeous sight! Much better views going down than climbing up-like Marla and I had done 1 1/2 years ago. The red rocks are so gorgeous. Mary took us to the Coffee Pot - the local hangout where they have 101 omlette choices. Then to the quilt shop in Sedona. Yep, more fat quarters later.....then down the road to Cottonwood and a wrong turn and back tracking got us to the shop there. I came out empty handed this time. I was getting anxious to get down the hill and checked in. I have a GPS this year. It has an English lady speaking, so we've dubbed it "Katie". It took us 3 days to figure out one of the sayings-"slip road". We finally decided it was the ramp and "slip" into traffic. Coming down from the mountains was a great feeling again. To see the cacti and dessert. Made our way around town and checked in before 3:30. This unit has some better remodeling than the one I had last year. No AZ room this time, tho. I didn't use it very much last year. Nice large carport/patio area. May be sewing outside some days. We unloaded the car and later unpacked. I got connected. Grocery shopping-found more red wine, a new bottle of vodka and olives-they were out of Rose's lime juice. Wine and salad for dinner tonite.
More pictures later-inet not cooperating-same story as last year....
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