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such a wonderful weekend!

got to flagstaff and had a nice lunch at the altitudes bar & grill. okay food. the veggie burger was a bad choice.

after lunch, we went up to the lava flow trail at sunset crater. i kept looking for the crater, but i think we might have missed it. the trail was a lovely one mile jaunt throw old lava flows from sunset crater, which used to be an active volcano.

next stop: the wine loft. a place where you bring your own food but the wine and beer flow freely. we played a game of trivial pursuit and lost. like, way lost. as in, BIG.

we checked into our hotel and checked out our digs. the bf, friend m, and i shared a suite. nap.

dinner at pasto, dining al fresco. i ordered gnocchi verde and the fried eggplant stack with taleggio, grilled tomatoes, pine nut butter and red pepper puree. the gnocchi was amazing. divine. i was eager for my main course. when it arrived my eyes widened, then my face fell. the "small" plate in front of me was in fact hamburger pattie sized eggplant slices deep-friend and breaded with thick slices of tallegio. ugh. how disappointing.

after dinner we hit rendezvous at the hotel monte vista. more drinks.

we hit the sack pretty hard that night.

in the morning, we drove up to the snowbowl and took the skyride to take in 70 miles of arizona. it was beautiful.

lunch at the weatherford hotel on the zane grey balcony. the turkey burger and ginger ale was wonderful.

on the way back, we stopped at walnut canyon and the island rim trail. they say the trail takes one hour. the bf and i did it in 22 minutes. take that.

the ride home was nice and quiet. such a full weekend. in so many ways.