Day Trip to Payson

So yesterday was a rare occurence, Jacob and I both had the day off, and so did our friends Arianna and Matt! So we decided since this NEVER happens we needed to do something awesome. So we decided to take a day trip to Payson. We left about 9am and got there around 10:30. First, we went to the Tonto Natural Bridge. We had a good time hiking and all the while quoting Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. When we got to the bridge I realized I had been here once before on a Girl's Camp hike! Crazy! But it was still awesome. Arianna and I were occupying ourselves by taking pictures and Jacob fished for crawdads in the water. It was lots of fun! We hung around there for a while and ate a snack, then decided to hike back out. 

After we got out of Tonto, we went to lunch and then tried to figure out what to do next. I remembered one time driving through the Christopher Creek Loop and seeing what I thought were shops so we decided to drive there. We were pretty loopy from the heat of the hike and so we were all being very silly. Well we got to the loop and it turns out the shops were mostly bait and tackle shops. Fail. Oh well, we had a good time driving around. We drove back to Payson and decided to check out a candle factory. It was a shop run by a nice lady who hand makes these amazing candle (I wish I had taken a picture but I didn't want to get in trouble haha) She showed us how she made her candles and we felt bad because she was looking at us like "well, I made this, are you going to buy it?" So we awkwardly walked out haha. At this point we were all pretty tired and the day was getting late so we decided to head home. Cabin Fever started to set it the last 45 minutes of the drive so we were all being crazy and singing Disney songs and making fools of ourselves. But it was so fun! When we got home, we decided to go swimming to work up an appetite and then we would go to Cornish Pasty. While swimming, this guy tried to make friends with us but it was really awkward haha I felt bad. We only swam for about half an hour before we were all hungry so we headed to Cornish Pasty which is amazing! After getting full bellies we went back to Arianna and Matt's place and watched She's the Man where we all laughed. Then it was time to go home and get ready to go back to work the next day :( We had an awesome day with our friends and made lots of memories. I am so grateful to have great friends and my wonderful husband who I always have fun with and I cherish the moments we have together. 

That's right, those are MINI Martinelli Ciders. We were toasting to our friendship! Awww! :)