All good things come to an end

First night in Flagstaff we spent at a wine bar meeting new people and playing Taboo! We teamed up, girls vs. guys and although the guys tried to cheat to win, the girls owned it even with two of them speaking mostly in Spanish!! Yesterday we went to Sedona, AZ to hike around and look at rocks. Sedona is incredibly beautiful, and there are supposedly energy vortexes in strategic places caused by rocks and other other-worldly type stuff. I definitely felt the energy at Airport Mesa where we could climb onto the actual rock vortex. I felt like my hands fell asleep (the tingly) but they hadn't, super fun and weird. The second, Cathedral Rock, was gorgeous but I felt less energy because we didn't get very close to the actual rock. Instead, along our hike, we were distracted by a wading pool that had a rope swing in it! Not one to ignore an opportunity to jump off of something into a body of water I was hooked. When we came back to Jason's (our wonderful host/pizza iron chef) we were greeted with a homemade pizza party! 8 different delicious varieties of pizza, wine, good people, fun conversation, it was amazing. After the pizza party started to die down our party heated up with Drambuie, Crown Royal, and some ambiguous plastic bottle that was labeled "cranberry liquer" and tasted like cough syrup. Misspelling and taste aside we drank and drank and drank. Off to the bars again for some pool and dancing and fun. On the walk home Destiny decided to walk up to a random house party and ask for "Mike". Mike unfortunatley was not in attendance but we were invited to come in and listen to the live music for a bit. All in all Flagstaff was way fun, I could see myself living here much like I could see myself living all of the places we've visited and I loved.

Yesterday a tragic thing happened as well, I bought a plane ticket back to Des Moines from Phoenix. In a strange swing of things I was not able to use one of my flight vouchers so the ticket was way too expensive. It is like United knows I should just stay here and get a job, throw caution to the wind and live in Arizona for a while until I can move elsewhere. Sadly logic and responsibility have taken hold, maybe because I know that the vacation is over :(