Arizona '09

At long last the pictures! I guess I kind of stopped taking pictures Friday after noon, at least until I was on the plane and we were SO close to Mt. Rainer and the Cascades. It was really beautiful. It looks a little blurry probobly because of the plastic window.
We had such a blast in Tucson! We slept in EVERY morning, had breakfast at the hotel and ate out for lunch and dinner. On Wednesday after my flight got in we checked into the hotel then went shopping and to dinner. We finished off the evening sitting outside with our feet in the hot tub and a beer or two.
On Thursday we went to Colossol Cave, it is the largest dry dormant cave in the United States. It was really cool-we went on a tour about 45 minutes and hiked down which was the easy part and then back up again. After lunch we went back to the hotel for a swim. Later we went to dinner and a movie, we saw the new Star Trek movie which was really good!
On Friday we went back to the mall for a couple of things then hung out at the pool all day long. Cody's friends Jason and Matt joined us and we swam, drank beer, ate pizza and watched the boys do tricks until about 6:00. Later that night we went out for margaritas and ended the evening at the Cactus Moon which is a country bar. We had a few more drinks there along with some unidentified shot of something and danced until the wee hours (at least for me). Cody and I took a cab back to his place to pick up his truck to go back to the hotel.
I paid for Friday night ALL day Saturday and didn't really start to feel human again until sometime on Sunday! But it was well worth it, the boys were so great and I've decided to make them all my honorary sons. Cody has some wonderful friends and they obviously have a great time together. Then I flew home about 4:00 with a fairly brief layover in Seattle. It was great to be back home, and it was great to be able to spend time with Cody and meet his friends in Arizona, maybe I will go back one more time before he gets out of the service :)