Amarillo by morning....

Last weekend Matt and I drove to Amarillo for my cousin's wedding.  My parents and brother also made the six hour drive up to the panhandle of Texas. Unfortunately we couldn't take Maximus, but luckily we had great friends with 2 dogs who offered to watch him over the weekend.  I highly doubt he noticed we weren't there. After dropping Max off we started our journey up 287.

The best thing about a Texas Road Trip is.....

Getting a Dairy Queen Blizzard!!!

Friday Night we went to the rehearsal dinner at the American Quarter House Museum.  It was a gorgeous venue, with an interact display that you could view during the reception.  Here is me and my hubby...

Saturday we decided to go down to the Palo Duro Canyon - the 2nd largest Canyon in the USA.

Little did we know - it is generally 10 degrees hotter in the canyon than in Amarillo.  Also, we were not prepared and did not bring one bottle of water with us.  Luckily we found a small "grocery" store in the state park so we could each have one bottle to take with us.

We decided to walk/run the Lighthouse trail, which is 6 miles round-trip.  At the trail head they have a thermometer in the sun and one in the shade.  There is NO shade on the trails.  Notice below the temperature in the sun....

Oh, just a mere 120 degrees!!!  Are you kidding me!  The sign on the left is a warning for the heat and  recommends that each person and pet has at least a gallon of water with them for this trail.  Yes, it says it was 120, however it is a very dry heat and wasn't too terrible.  The first time we ran I could tell it was harder to breathe with the heat, but we ran 1.5 miles out of the 4 that we hiked.  Not too bad for 120 degree weather.

Here are some pictures from the trail

In this next picture you can see that Matt and I are way down in the canyon below my brother.  While on the hike Chris got a burst of energy and decided to sprint up the side of one of the cliffs. 

The wedding was absolutely beautiful.  It was such a fun and special night.

Here I am with the hubby during the reception.

We had such a fun weekend, but we were ready to get home to see our puppy!