Steve and I hadn't gotten around to discussing, much less thinking about a honeymoon yet. There's just been too much going on for either of us, and funds will be tight. So tight, that we're thinking of asking the guests to skip the presents (we've both got too much "stuff" already) and turn the reception to a pot luck. Hey, ever price flowers at Valentines Day? Or spaces? But that's called romance.
Anyway, with a winter wedding planned, and me being so sick of winter right now I could almost choke on it, especially with the year's coldest weather imminent, I got to thinking about how nice it would be to escape to Arizona for a bit. RIGHT NOW! Of course I can't, but as a honeymoon?
We both love the state, especially its lack of winter. Yes, I know they have one, but nothing that counts to a Minnesotan. Nobody in Arizona has ever gotten their tongue stuck to a flagpole, or faced a month below freezing, or frozen a banana so hard it can pound nails ( - 13 F. Honest! Demonstration tomorrow morning on KARE 11 by Jonathan Yuhas, meteorologist/weatherman) or had to shovel for six months straight, or gotten frostbite despite sensible clothing. And it's not just the paucity of lakes that keeps them from fishing through tiny holes augered through the ice. Do they even know what windchill means? Or roof raking to prevent ice dams? Or ....
He used to work at the Grand Canyon, and we'd love to spend a night there. He used to live in Flagstaff, and wants to see if the old houses are still there. I'd love to drive him past Wukoki, take him on a tour of the Sonoran Desert Museum's Hummingbird House, and tour the Tombstone cemetery and Karchner Caverns. We both have friends in Sun City West who got smart years ago and escaped Minnesota winters.
We'd have to come up with another scooter by then. Just one won't do. And research the accessibility of most of those places, and find the cheapest air fares, and budget and save and....
But oh, wouldn't it be nice?
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