Relaxing Evening, Early Wakeup Tomorrow
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canyonwalkerPhoenix Getaway Travelog #4
At the hotel - Sat, 1 Apr 2023, 10:30pm
Our simple plan this afternoon of "visit a gem shop then get an easy dinner" wound up taking, like, four hours for a multitude of little problems I don't care to repeat. Like, nothing went right the first time. But now I'm relaxed and happy and don't care to rehash it.
Why happy? Because once we got back to our hotel we ate some dessert we'd bought at the store then went outside to one of the hot tubs for a nice, long soak. The water was really hot (many hotel hot tubs are not hot enough) and, surprisingly, it didn't sting anywhere. That means I didn't get burned while floating around on the lazy river earlier today. Yay, sun tan lotion! ...Especially because being really selective with packing sun tan lotion was one of the tradeoffs we had to make with our decision last night to travel only with carry-on bags this trip.
We're winding down now a good first day on this weekend getaway. I wish it were a bit earlier as today was an early day— up at 5:30am— and we've got another early day planned for tomorrow. Okay, we've only set our alarms for 6am this time, but it's going to be a tiring day as we're going to start with a hike up Camelback Peak. It's an ascent of about 1,400 feet on a trail that is brutally steep.
At the hotel - Sat, 1 Apr 2023, 10:30pm
Our simple plan this afternoon of "visit a gem shop then get an easy dinner" wound up taking, like, four hours for a multitude of little problems I don't care to repeat. Like, nothing went right the first time. But now I'm relaxed and happy and don't care to rehash it.
Why happy? Because once we got back to our hotel we ate some dessert we'd bought at the store then went outside to one of the hot tubs for a nice, long soak. The water was really hot (many hotel hot tubs are not hot enough) and, surprisingly, it didn't sting anywhere. That means I didn't get burned while floating around on the lazy river earlier today. Yay, sun tan lotion! ...Especially because being really selective with packing sun tan lotion was one of the tradeoffs we had to make with our decision last night to travel only with carry-on bags this trip.
We're winding down now a good first day on this weekend getaway. I wish it were a bit earlier as today was an early day— up at 5:30am— and we've got another early day planned for tomorrow. Okay, we've only set our alarms for 6am this time, but it's going to be a tiring day as we're going to start with a hike up Camelback Peak. It's an ascent of about 1,400 feet on a trail that is brutally steep.
