What a great day!

First thing I have to tell you is this.  Almost all the hills and mountains around Palm Springs and all the way to Phoenix are pretty much just brown.  Dirt, rock and boulders all different shades, with the odd little green bush.

As we got closer to Sedona this morning, the hills and mountains started having a beautiful red hue to them.  As we got closer they were all different shades of what I would call Terracotta, with some greenery growing out of the rocks here and there.  Absolutely gorgeous.

This street in in Sedona and the rock formations are all around.  There are shops, restaurants, jeep and other types of tours.  We were really impressed, and what a pleasure to see all this color.

The rock formation behind me is called "The Bell" and it does look like a bell.

We are up on a mountain and the building on the left is a church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  We followed a tour trolley up as far as we could go and then realized all the parking spots were for the handicapped.  So I pulled out my Handicap sign, put it in the windshield and carried on.  We still had to go up the walkway for quite a ways.  Thank goodness for the sign, because I couldn't have made the hill from farther down where we were actually supposed to park.  The view wonderful, hard to see in the picture.

After we had lunch at the Open Range and the back wall was all glass so you could look out at the view.

Our friend Sharon had told us about a place called Jerome which was an old copper mining town. At it's peak it had 15,000 residents, but of course not now.  They haven't done anything to change the buildings except that all along the street, (all hilly) there are unique shops.  We walked along, looked at the shops and decided to go to the famous Haunted Hamburger restaurant.  Lucky we parked right by the sign. NOT.  That was just to direct you up cement steps, and more steps, and more steps to the actual restaurant.  Whew!!  It was worth the climb though and I had a "haunted burger" and Joe had a "ghostly burger".  Cute.

All along the road to this place there were some very inviting spots that we would have liked to go to, but didn't have time.  For instance Horsethief recreation area seemed like a nice spot.  Or maybe Cataract Lake would give you a good view.  We thought Dead Horse Ranch and State Park might be a little depressing though and even though we were thirsty, we didn't think it would be a good idea to have a drink from Montezuma Wells.

Bonnie and Joe on the go again.  Tomorrow - Tucson.