Flagstaff.

I took half a day off from work so we could get a head start on the weekend. The original plan was for me to go hiking early Saturday morning up in Flagstaff. However, when we got up there, I reviewed the weather forecast and it was calling for morning thunderstorms.

Morning thunderstorms are not a good thing when you’re hiking on a mountain peak.

So I made the determination tonight that we’d change the purpose of the weekend and just have a relaxing time. It was easy to come to this decision; the both of us have been quite stressed for the past week or so due to a myriad of reasons, so having a “down time” weekend was just what we needed. So Friday night we explored Downtown Flagstaff, which is a wonderful place on a Friday night in August.

Downtown Flagstaff sits at about 7000 feet above sea level. The higher elevation isn’t particularly noticeable to me, but I did have a low grade headache by the time bedtime rolled around.

The first photo is a hotel. We had dinner here together the first time we were in Flagstaff, which was back in 2003. I believe it’s called the Hotel Weatherford.