Go West, Young Man

Do you want to hear The Goose laugh out loud? Just tell him that Mom & Dad need a vacation and wouldn’t it be nice if we all went to Arizona for a wedding and visited with friends. Ha!

Biggest lesson learned: Babies don’t understand time zones.

Other discoveries made on the trip include …

Geese love to fly (of course) and can even sleep while flying!


Geese love to swim (of course),


Geese even love rental cars,


and dogs,


and their choke chains.


While in Flagstaff, we visited with Chris and his family,


and hiked at our favorite spot.


Here are some shots from the wedding in the Grand Canyon:





As you can see in this last picture, the wedding was basically on a cliff overlooking the canyon. It’s called Shoshone Point, and is so high and steep that the flower girl was leashed:



Other fun tidbits about the wedding include the following:

Mother Goose leaves directions to Shoshone point in desk drawer in Nashville and park ranger at Grand Canyon entrance gives bad directions. The Goose Family then drives to the general area of the trailhead, can’t find it, and Mother Goose ends up harassing some local campers in order to use their Grand Canyon guidebook—luckily a nice British family was willing to share their book.

Mother Goose is forced to make the one-mile hike in to Shoshone Point in 3-inch heels because we were running late and she left her hiking boots in the lodge.

Mother Goose almost leaps off the side of the cliff because of wasp invasion during ceremony (don’t worry there were other near disasters too … several people were hyperventilating because of acrophobia – including a bridesmaid).

Mother Goose nearly makes the flower girl cry because she says that maybe the guitarist knows the Little Mermaid song and then he doesn’t. Luckily, flower girl’s mother knew the song and the crisis was averted.


Otherwise, we spent our time trying to entertain The Goose and keep him to some form of a schedule. Here’s some evidence of our desperation:



In all seriousness though, it was fun for at least part of the time and we got some other great photos of the canyon and the mountains that I’ll have to just email.

I’ll leave you with a shot of B & J sitting on a rock overlooking the point. We’re glad to be back!