Cave Creek Trail #4

Not much going on this last week for us.  With Mara working so hard at the hospital, our weeks are usually pretty consumed with softball, climbing, and resting when she can.  This last week Mara was the scheduled late person Monday AND Friday, so she didn’t have much free time.  Rohan and I got to spend the evenings with some fire truck races, baseball and football games, yard/house work, and some bike riding…pretty exhausting, but so fun to watch Rohan learn, adapt, and apply.

Saturday Mara had to work a few hours (only 10! :P), so Rohan and I did tons of work outside while it was still cool and nice before we headed inside and watched a thrilling Hawkeye game!  Rohan fell asleep at halftime and proceeded to take a 5hr nap!  Can you say growth spurt!?  After Mara got home we had a nice dinner at one of our favorite Chinese restaurants (Flo's Asian Kitchen) before running some errands and having a drink by the pool to relax.

Sunday started early at 5:30 (although to Mara it was sleeping in!).  We got the car packed up, picked up Jeanette, and headed to Carefree to hike the Cave Creek Trail #4.  We had an awesome group for this hike…15 people including Rohan & 6 dogs!  The hike is pretty easy, with tons of water along the way to cool the dogs and hikers off in.  The temps weren’t too bad, probably mid 90°’s, but it was nice too to have the shade from the creek that ran along most of the canyon trail.  We found 2 areas to cool everyone off, and one even was deep enough for some 15-20’ rock jumping.  It was a lot of fun!  I think this trail is going to get some use this fall with some of us planning a couple backpacking trip to explore this Sonoran Desert area!  Afterwards we all headed back to Jeanette’s for some “brunch” even though it was now 3:00 in the afternoon…:)  It was complete with waffles, mimosas, watermelon, grapes, bagels, bread, and lots of biochemistry (what?!?)...:)

Later that night we grilled some brats and went on a nice walk in the cooler night air to cap off a busy, good weekend.  Hope everyone else had a good week/weekend!  Get out and enjoy the fall weather!!!!