It’s 106 in the Phoenix area today, which is causing me to cast my memory fondly back to last Saturday and Sunday. (Hover over the pictures to see captions.) Last weekend was equally as sweltering, which prompted my husband to call me at work on Friday afternoon, all full of spur-of-the-moment planning. He asked if I wanted to head up to Flagstaff for an overnight getaway, to get out of the heat and to indulge in the annual Made in the Shade Beer Festival . Well, he certainly didn’t have to ask me twice (we are great fans of the beer festival , after all) - within a half hour I secured us a hotel room. Since, due to our last minute planning, everything in Flagstaff was booked or exorbitantly priced (the Beer Festival AND the Flagstaff Music Festival were going on) I ended up booking us a room in Sedona . It’s only a quick 28-mile jaunt down 89A from Flagstaff and, for that weekend anyway, cheaper. We left home early on Saturday morning to beat the weekend traffic and made excellent time - two hours flat from our driveway to breakfast at the Galaxy Diner in Flagstaff.

Original Source A Weekend Up North