Getting Vortexted at Airport Mesa and Chapel of the Holy Cross

AIRPORT MESA:  the view is spectacular.  We enjoyed it while lunching at Mariposa.  The butterfly was another good omen for me.

We had reservations for dinner, but a woman in a gallery earlier strongly suggested we have lunch there instead.  Sedona is a Dark City, which means that with the restrictions they have put in place to control light pollution it is DARK at night.  You would not believe how these majestic rocks disappear from view after sunset.  She was absolutely right.  We enjoyed lunch on an enclosed porch that exposed this incredible view. And metal butterflies.

We drove back to Airport Mesa to see the sunset as everything you read says it is a must do.  Trouble is, you are competing with a couple hundred other people who  have been told they must watch the sunset from this location.  We paid our $3 to park, walked over to the spot offering the view, but quickly walked back to the car once we saw the number of people we had to compete with to see what we saw at lunch without competition.  Serendipity.  The unplanned journey we had after leaving here was unbelievable.  I will write about that later.

CHAPEL OF HE HOLY CROSS: This small church is built on the rock called Madonna and Child. It was built in 1956 and was the idea of Margaret Straude. The view from the top, like so many in Sedona, is spectacular.

I think my hair got vortexted.  By the way, vortexted is not a word.  More on that later.