Day trip to Flagstaff

The Sunday before Christmas, we drove up to Flagstaff w/ Linda and Al. We were looking forward to seeing some snow!


For lunch, we went to Swaddee Thai (under the same management as the Scottsdale and Chandler locations). We ordered the following dishes to share:

• Tom Ka
• Massaman Curry
• Spicy Catfish
• Pineapple Fried Rice

All of the dishes were very flavorful and well-prepared. Here are the pics:

After lunch, we took a brief stroll around downtown Flagstaff and then drove a few miles to
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. The volcano was created in a series of eruptions sometime between 1040 and 1100.


Here's a good picture of the crater:

(from Wikipedia)

We spotted this cool snowman:

We also went to Wupatki National Monument (which is about 10 miles from Sunset Crater). Here's a pic of the pueblo (~900 years old):

We achieved our mission of seeing snow (and visiting a few new places)! That makes it 5 straight years (of seeing snow) - '03 in Chicago; '04 in Snowbowl/Flagstaff; '05 in Denver; '06 in Montreal; '07 in Flagstaff.