Pitstop in Arizona

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For starters, thank you all for the support and prayers related to my fathers passing.
After about a month sitting around my home, doing DIY projects...Dave and I decided to continue on our journey that we had planned.
Unfortunately, we missed Malaysia, Singapore and Bali, but we are going back to see Australia and New Zealand.
We decided to make a pitstop in Arizona, where some of my family lives, and see this beautiful state for a few days. My 2 directionally challenged cousins picked us up at Phoenix Airport, kidding Chris and Shea.
When we arrived to the house, my Aunt Joyce had a full lunch prepared and we did as we always do...eat!
The next day Dave, myself and me 3 cousins took a drive to Sedona, also known as the red rocks.
We were plagued with traffic jams on every road we took, but thanks to the Ipod jams we rocked out while sitting in hours of traffic.
Another day, Dave and I took my Aunts convertible for a drive around what is called Canyon Lake and has really windy roads all the way up to the top of the mountain. This was so relaxing for us, we just drove with the radio off, the top down and enjoyed the sun, the huge mountains, the lake, and of course each others company.
Every night here the Phillies baseball team were playing in the "World Series" so we watched every game as a family and of course donned our Phillies shirts.
We have one more night here in AZ, and we are flying to LAX, wait there for a few hours and go to Brisbane Australia. The plan is to stay there the one night, Halloween night, hopefully we won't be too tired and we can go out and party OZ style. Then again we will hop on another flight to Cairns and hopefully rent an RV and start the journey down the East Coast of Australia.
Love to all!!

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Photos

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Sitting in Philly Airport ready to fly to AZ

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have to support the Phillies, they are in the World Series. Even though we are the only ones to play baseball, its still the World series.

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the mountains

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Shea sleeping in the car

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a shot of the cactus

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after sitting in traffic, we drove up a dirt road and saw that a semi truck was flipped over

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the flipped truck

Photo 9
thumbs down to this

Photo 14
Jenna trying to read a map...we got lost just a few times

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Crazy Shea

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In Sedona

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Red rocks

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My favorite mountain

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My AZ cousins, Chris, Shea, me and Jenna