After some stressful car issues as she was driving out of Columbia, Elise arrive Wednesday night. We returned her to the airport this afternoon. In between, we had a GREAT visit!
Thursday - I played hookie from the mission office in the afternoon and Elise and I checked out the Desert Botanical Gardens. The cactus are all blooming (well, not the saguaro yet - just buds) and there were butterflies in their habitat house.
She got to see all her aunts and uncle: Dinner with Jim and Joan Thursday night, Friday in Sedona and Payson that night and Saturday morning with Juli, and lunch on Saturday with Jerri.
Sedona was chilly and cloudy but we still had fun together.
(this cairn was NOT built by us)
Our first stop in Sedona was the Frank Lloyd Wright designed chapel on the hill...
And, we stopped at a souvenir shop on the way out of town.
Saturday, on the way to see Jerri in Mesa, we watched the Fountain Hills famous fountain erupt at noon. It was very impressive.
After seeing Jerri, we took Elise to the Rare Earth Gallery (where we first took with Juli two weeks ago)
Fossils (above) and perfect, naturally square cubes of malachite (below)
Not much else to write about this past week. I will close with a photo of the mission office staff plus President and Sister Collins (and their son Scott) modeling the Townsend Honey Farm t-shirts given to us by Elder Townsend. And a photo of me getting ready for last Sunday's ProMusica concert.
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