From the wine festival we headed over to Pine, Arizona, to find our cabin, Kamp Kiwi. It was a very nice place (thank you Ken and Marie!). We drove past it in the dark of night and ended up at the end of the road along with twenty or more elk. We tried to get a photo but it was way too dark. We turned around and found the cabin easily.
The next morning, after a massive gut bomb breakfast of biscuits and gravy with all the extras, we visited the Tonto Natural Bridge National Monument and had a very nice hike on the only open trail. What the trail lacked in length it tried to make up for in height. It was a a pretty good climb out from the bottom. Our timing was good. The weather was perfect for a hike. There were quite a few people there, but I wouldn't call it crowded. Because of recent storms the other trails were closed due to trail damage and erosion. The trail we were on goes under the bridge but that section was closed as well. It was still very nice. I would like to go there again when the other trails are open--that is if the park doesn't get shut down for lack of funding.
Saturday night (Ken's birthday) was supposed to be steaks on the grill followed by cake and drink, but we skipped the grill and went right to cake and drinks. Ken received two very nice bottles of bourbon, one of which he opened. I'm not a bourbon drinker, but it was pretty good, even to me. Of course, the night devolved into silliness. We pulled out a couple of word games but no one had the patience or faculties to play them properly. As you'll see from the photos in the next post, we took these games very, very seriously.
