Day 1&2 Our Arrival to Painted Desert

We are at the end of our first full day in the Painted Desert. We left home on Saturday morning and wanted to spend the night in Needles, a very 'exciting' lil town in the middle of nowhere, but instead we decided to push through and make it all the way to Flagstaff. After twelve hour drive we arrived at our destination and spent the night in a five star Motel 6 :o). It is safe to say that Zoe is not a fan of tall buildings and open stairwells. We had to (Chris had to) carry her both up and down to our room - it was a very traumatic experience for the lil puppy.

We had our breakfast in Flagstaff and after that we headed towards Sedona. On the way down we stopped for a 4 hour hike in West Fork of Oak Creek State Park. It was a picturesque hike with multiple acrobatic river crossings. Eventually Chris just gave up and walked right through it.

In the afternoon we drove through Sedona (wow I had no idea how beautiful it is around here) and checked in our cute lil resort right by Bell Rock. We are lil tired but I can't wait for tomorrow to see more of this beautiful place. Here are some pics we took right behind our hotel.