Producer Brandon’s Christmas Vacation – 2016 – Sedona, AZ

January 1, 2017/Photo Gallery

ROUND 3 – Our last “hoo-rah” in AZ was the Grand Canyon. We figured that we would check it out since we were only about 2 hours away. Little did we know that it was going to be totally crowded, with lines of cars and people. They run this place like it’s Disneyland, complete with resorts and shuttles to each of the different spots along the canyon. We didn’t make it to the glass deck as it was on the opposite side of the canyon which would have taken us an additional 2 hours to get to. After the Grand Canyon, my wife wanted to visit a deer petting zoo. Happy wife, happy life… right? It was actually pretty fun.

We have arrived at the Deer Petting Zoo just outside of the Grand Canyon. My wife just had to check this out to see it for herself.

The wife even got to go in for a kiss from the camel. Hump DAY!!!!

These animals were all very nice and really well taken care of.

Most of the deer were already full when we arrived so we just let the ones who were still hungry eat out of the cup.

I even got in the action to feed an elk. This guy was very friendly.

ROUND 2 – Part of this vacation was to take my wife to some places in Arizona that she has always wanted to visit. Of those places were the meteor crater (the largest, best preserved crater in the world) and the Petrified Forest National Park. Here are some photos from those places.

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately 37 miles east of Flagstaff and 18 miles west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

These photos do it no justice… but you get the idea.

Now off to the Peterified Forest! Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.

Again, photos do these natural wonders no justice.

This is a rock formation that looks like the rocks started to fall and are now frozen in time.

These pieces of wood are everywhere, petrified in time. Everything we saw here was once in a tropical setting.

There seemed to be virtually no wildlife or bugs everywhere we went. Although, there were crows who traveled in pairs everywhere, and this guy kept following us around at each stop in the park.

The day was slightly overcast, but we were still graced with some spectacular views.

ROUND 1 – Over the holiday vacation, my wife and I went to Sedona, AZ just to get away. We figured that since we get a week off together, we would do something we’ve always wanted to do. Visit the vortexes in Sedona, the Petrified Forest National Park, the meteor crater, Grand Canyon, and taste some wine in Jerome, AZ! That’s where we start, our drive into Sedona from Phoenix landed us in the small mining town of Jerome along the way.