Christmas Break Adventures

Over Christmas break Sam and I decided to explore Arizona a bit. We drove up to the Superstitions, pulled over on the side of the road and started hiking. We didn't have a destination plan, but serendipitously found Canyon Lake,
beautiful.

The weather was amazing and Chloe was the perfect little travel companion. I love love love the desert this time of year.

A few days later we decided to drive out to Goldfield Ghost Town. Its an obvious tourist trap town and I loved every minute of it! Only the mine and the foundations of the buildings were authentic from the original town, the rest was rebuilt for our touristing pleasure.

We were expecting this little white church to be a quaint historical place of worship...not so. Inside is a shrine to Elvis and all of his movies--apparently a few were filmed in this area. And for a small fee here in this church the King himself will preform your nuptials. I feel cheated that I didn't know about this sooner.

On the weekends every hour on the hour from high noon to four, they stage a gun fight. The guns are really loud and we were a little nervous that Chloe would scream through the whole thing and annoy the people around us, but...

...she slept right through it.
Strange that she'll sleep through a gunfight, but if we sneeze during her nap time at home...