Katy and Stav's Wedding in Sedona

Last weekend, we had the pleasure of seeing Katy and Stav tie the knot in the gorgeous Sedona, AZ.  Before our trip, I had never heard of Sedona, but we can see now why John McCain chose to buy a house here.  Armed with multiple warnings about how to deter timeshare sharks, we managed to eventually leave without buying any property, but I must say that we were tempted. Big sky, red rocks, good friends, and awesome mojitos. Why come home to failing banks and performance reviews!?

We took a fantastic Pink Jeep tour and went off-roading among the beautiful cliffs and buttes (Broken Arrow tour, highly recommend it).  Pink Jeep was apparently made famous by its Sedona outfit, and our tour guide drove us up and down lots of steep rocky hills, through some fantastic scenery.

The most interesting part of the ride, however, was when Chris started chatting with another guy in our jeep, who turned out to be the press secretary for U.S. Representative Lynn Westmoreland, the congressman who was made nationally famous by the Colbert Report.  Here's a video of Colbert's interview with Lynn Westmoreland in case you didn't see it.  He had some interesting backstage stories about that taping, and talked about how he thought he would be fired after scheduling that particular appearance.  All I can say is wow, I can't imagine having his job...but on the bright side for him, at least the Bulldogs won!

Here's a picture that our tour guide took for us:

We also got a chance to visit Montezuma's Well and Montezuma's Castle, and we hiked around Bell Rock and Courthouse Rock.  The hiking trail was supposed to have one of those mystical "vortexes," but our hunt basically consisted of pointing to suggestive-looking rocks and chortling, so the vortex spirits never revealed themselves.  (Ugh...that was terrible.)

More pictures of our trip and the wedding are here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jenn.c.taylor/KatyAndStavSWedding