Sedona Day 2

What a difference a day makes! Nothing bad happened; bright sunny day; and in the mid 70's. We got up around 6:00 AM; put on a pot of coffee; and began to review brochures for the tours we wanted to take.

We attended a free welcome breakfast and listened to many of the tour directors explain their tours. The food was great and the presentations were entertaining. We chose a Hummer tour to the back countries for tomorrow and a train ride through Verde Canyon for Thursday. It is a four hour train ride in first class with free champagne and snacks. Tomorrow is our 42nd wedding anniversary and we are taking a hummer ride to celebrate. You would think we would have planned the train ride with the champagne on our anniversary, but we did not.

After the briefings we took a self guided driving tour through Red Rock Country. The scenery was beautiful although a little rough looking. We then went through three other areas of Red Rock Country--of course red rock cliffs and formations the primary sights. Again, all areas were beautiful.

After touring the back country, we attended a presentation called "All You Wanted to Know About Native Americans, But Were Afraid to Ask". The presentation was given by a Native American who taught American History for about 12 years. The presentation and discussion was very good and instead of a 1 hour presentation, it lasted an hour and a half. I think it would have gone longer, but, the presenter finally stopped the discussion. He played a small flute which he called a hummingbird flute. He did a great job and we could have listened longer. There will be a flute concert Friday and I am sure we will attend if we are back in time.

After the presentation, we went for dinner. We had planned on going to a restaurant that featured home cooking, but, went in the wrong direction. What a lucky mistake! We stopped at an alternate location and were seated in the fireside room--fireplace of course--which had six tables. Very cozy and I suppose romantic--again should have planned it for tomorrow night. I ordered their specialty hamburger and Linda order a grilled chicken sandwich with avacado. As usual, we shared each sandwich. I must say that they were the best sandwiches that we had eaten in a long time. They also served great hot baked bread and the buns looked like homemade sough dough buns. The salad served and the dressing were also very good. Over all a fantastic meal with a beautiful lady--what more could a man ask for after 42 great years!

After dinner, we returned to our room, got comfortable and opened a bottle of wine. We are now watching the news and planning tomorrow's activities.