Arizona Day 3 – Petroglyphs

To start our third day in Arizona off right, Kathy treated us all to a delicious breakfast of huevos rancheros.  Having never made them, I was in for a treat.  They were positively delicious!

I believe the recipe goes something as follows: fry tortiallas shells.  Fry eggs.  Pour beans over and top with salsa and shredded cheese.  Bake for 10 minutes on the plate. Yum!

Here we’re enjoying another meal outdoors.  Warm, soft air feels so good when you’re used to the biting cold air of witner!

After breakfast, we attempted to go to a restorative yoga class.  Unfortunately, traffic on the highway was completely stopped, and so by the time we got to our exit, we were already about 15 minutes late for the class.  So we scrapped that idea and instead went to a nearby petroglyph site.

On this snake-infested hillside, there are thousands of stone drawings done by people 1-2000 years ago.  The drawings were kind of hard to see in the bright mid-day sun, but it was really cool to see artwork made by people so very long ago.

Here’s one of the illustrations.  To make these, the artist would use a rock to knock off the top layer of dark, exposing the design.

Here are some petroglyphs of kissing reindeer.  The five of us got stones with this design as our souvenir from the trip.

In the afternoon, some of us went to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arizona home…but that’s a topic for another blog post.  After we all were home and had finished our pool-side or in-the-pool relaxation, we got dressed up and went out to supper at a great restaurant called The House at Secret Garden.

Here’s a recreation of our Austin shoes picture.

I think this one here might be my favorite photo from the trip.

We had fun taking pictures together in the gardens around the restaurant before and after dinner.

Although we arrived in Scottsdale with little pre-planning for what we would do or where we would eat, we really lucked out finding some amazing restaurants.  Thanks to my friend Indu who worked with Bryan in Ann Arbor and who now lives in Scottsdale for suggesting this restaurant.

I had Shrimp and Grits with Bacon and Carrots Drizzled with Sweet Corn and Serrano Sauce mmmm.  For dessert, we shared a Chocolate Cloud Cake with House Made Fleur de Sel, Caramel and a Cloud of Sweetened Whipped Cream.

In the evening, we sat around the table, playing games and laughing until we cried.  Good times, girls!  Good times:)