Today we were woken up early, 8am, to drive up to Sedona for the day. Sedona is about 2 hours or so north of Phoenix. Sedona is a very pretty smaller town, its very earthy and artsy. Not only that though there are tons of beautiful red rocks around the area.

There has been a big forest fire burning just north of Sedona in the mountians that finally was brought under control a couple a days ago. We drove up the newly reopened high way and saw the burn scars. Suprisingly there wasn't all that much.

We had dinner at our favorite restraunt in Sedona this evening before coming home. Its this really nice family owned Italian restraunt. Now I know this may sound like heresy but they actually make my favorite pizza i've ever had. My sister got ravioli with a mixture of alfredo and marinara sauce and wow was it good.

So then driving home we stopped at this certain rest area because you could see another forest first that was just started yesterday. So these new forest fires were burning pretty well and we were watching them off in the distance from the rest stop. The darker it was getting the easier to see them it was. While we were there the winds were kicking up and a storm was brewing behind us. This fanned the flames and they were growing large. This could shut down that highway pretty soon.