For Troy's birthday we took a last minute mini road trip. We headed north to one of Arizona's hottest tourist spots...Payson. :) And we left no sight unseen. Our first destination was the old bike shop that you pass on the highway. We'd always wondered what the heap of junk was...and we found out it was just that. "30 years in the makin" the toothless woman told us. Over 10,000 bikes! She even let us climb the old car trailer to get an aerial shot. It was actually quite impressive, and once we started walking around we found that there was some semblance of order in the lot. There is just something cool about large amounts of things, collections of any random sort become novel.
Next we hiked Natural Bridge which was absolutely beautiful. We went all the way through this time since we didn't have the babies on our backs. 
Everything was so lush and green and the waterfalls made you feel you were somewhere exotic. We couldn't have asked for better weather and the company was ideal. It was fun just talking with Troy using uninterrupted sentences. 
We enjoyed lunch at a little roadside diner and walked through The Old Randall house. Then we went up to Pine and visited the graves of Troy's grandparents. Next we were off on the hunt for my "starter cabin"...unfortunately, it's just not meant to be...yet! :) After inhaling our brownie sundaes we headed back into the valley.
We stopped by Troy's office and I tried to do a little housekeeping while he worked, much to his irritation. Apparently setting up shelves and filing is not what he wanted done on his birthday. Go figure.
And no birthday would be complete without a trip to the local pawn shop. ??? Troy heard on the news, that with all this economic mess, pawn shops are being infiltrated with good stuff. So he wanted to go check it out. What makes this even more random is this is SO not Troy's style. First off, he doesn't ever buy anything, second, if he ever did buy something, he would know exactly what he's going to get, style, color, price etc. So randomly going to see what a pawn shop had to offer just threw me for a loop. But, it was his birthday... he ran the show (and I almost got a new platinum diamond ring out of the deal!) :)
9 comments:
The old man gets older. But Pawn shops. Man, I thought going for a car at auction was going out on a limb.
Keep evolving Troy.
Sounds like a fun day. The organizing of Troy's office sounds more of what you would like to do for your birthday, but I am sure it was appreciated.
Nice! what a birthday! Sounds like my kinda day up in the mountains. And looks like you guys had a great time. oh, and, Happy Birthday Troy!!
Hey, that sounds like a fun day! Pretty pictures!
Happy Birthday, Troy. I should have had you over for some Chicken Fettucini. I guess I still can, whenever you want feel free, we'd love to have you. That seem so fun, no kids I bet you were in heaven.
Wish my husband and I could take a day like that...sounded like fun.
Hey Sandra...so fun to see you at Hair-do! My e-mail is brcunningham@cox.net
what a creative fun date..like the kind before marriage. I love the spontaneity. Fun. Fun. I will be in Mesa the week of Thanksgiving. It would be nice to see you.
Well happy belated birthday Troy!!! Sounds like a super fun trip! And the pawn shop sounds like something Rob would want to do....but knowing him he would leave with something random that we don't need! ha ha.
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