66 Degrees with a slight refreshing breeze....

Just starting out- the skyline was insane, but it's a little blurry here. 

Yesterday I had the day off, which is one of those rare glorious things that happens if you work 6 days in a row. You get one weekday off the next week. And it just so happened yesterday was glor-i-ous. A couple years ago, John & I hiked up Camelback- there are two ways up, and we went up Echo. Yesterday I took the Cholla Trail. Which I had heard was easier. It was not. In fact, it totally kicked my butt. Even so, I could not stop taking breaks to look around and see the beautiful homes and just appreciate the weather that I'm inside far too much to enjoy. Here's a few of my views:

More of the beginning

This is the TRAIL. Do you see it? Me neither. It was a lot of rock climbing near the top. Kind of crazy. Do you see the couple just chillin on the rocks. Yeah, that's a steep drop on the right. 

Looking down on what I just climbed up

More near the summit. My heart was pounding at this point.
(From working so hard) 

This dude was doing yoga at the summit. He thought he was a stud.
This picture was taken not-so-discreetly. 

The TOP!

More from the summit

Summit Part 3 

Is this not the coolest LIZARD ever?

Can you see the roadrunner?

Pfeffernuse & Palak Paneer

So my general rule about food is to eat pretty much whatever I haven't before. For example, the other day Jonmark & I went out to eat and I had Turtle soup. I've had a lot of things in my life, but never turtle. Yes, it was delicious. Yes, I had to keep telling myself I wasn't eating those precious little sea turtles on National Geographic.
This month, I've had 2 new things:

1- Pfeffernuse. From Fresh & Easy. But apparently they're not too hard to find. They look like this:
They are Danish, so I figured due to my 50% Danish-ness I was obligated to try them. And I love them. They are like thick, soft-ish ginger cookies with frosting. Crumbly. Thin frosting. They are soo soo good. I love ginger stuff. I had no idea these existed.

2- Palak Peneer. Yes, this one was frozen. I have made not really any new Indian friends lately (I guess I do have a new co-worker friend. Whose mom makes this, she said). Basically, it was curry and spinach and paneer cheese. I had no idea paneer cheese existed. It's kind of like mozarella, but less stringy. Anyways, what it comes down to is that you should try these both. mmmmm.....