Flagstaff Errands and Alarming Ending

The day went just about as planned yesterday. We went to Flagstaff at about noon and Josie got her much needed haircut, Bob had his appointment at the hearing center and Josie got some shopping done. We also went to a couple stores to try to find hiking boots for her but didn't have any luck. We miss being near the Cabela's store in Glendale. We could buy a pair and have them shipped but this is something you need to try on before you buy.

Our errands and shopping were done around 4:30 so we decided to treat ourselves to dinner. We went to the Olive Garden restaurant in Flagstaff and had a great dinner there, as usual. We brought leftovers home for lunch today. There were lots of clouds all day and even though we didn't get any rain in Flagstaff, it rained .17" here at Happy Jack. The rain keeps the temps down as the high was 77 and the low 51 yesterday.

Everything was normal as we watched the So You Think You Can Dance show and turned in at about 9:30. Josie woke up Bob at 1:30 AM this morning to watch an ambulance that arrived at one of our cabins. The ambulance left the cabin and was sitting down near the Ramada with its lights still flashing. It turns out they were waiting for a helicopter to arrive to carry the patient by air to the Flagstaff hospital. Evidently, there were three men in one of the cabins and one of them, a diabetic, slipped and fell in the bathroom and had some pretty serious injuries. We don't know more than that at this time but will find out more when we go back to work on Friday. We were told by one of the maintenance staff members that also was watching the action that the ambulances don't like to travel on the roads at night because of the number of elk that are always crossing them and they create a real danger for speeding ambulances. Makes sense.

We will do short trip on one of the Forest Service Roads today and then Josie has to catch up on some laundry. Bob will try to get some good photos today of the trip. That's it for now...