Yuma

After the wedding in Prescott we decided to head down to Yuma for a couple of days, since its only about a five hour drive and we hadn't seen the new addition G'ma put on her park model. Yuma's right on the California-Arizona-Mexico border and has lots of nice things about it... mainly the constant sunshine and the 70 degree weather even in January!


St. Thomas Mission, which is on the Quechan Indian reservation, across the Colorado River from Yuma. The building was closed but we walked around the outside, where there was a petrified wood shrine to the Virgin Mary. There were also some statues honoring "beloved" Padres who worked there at the Mission in the late 1700's...it turns out they weren't that beloved after all since most of them were killed in an Indian uprising just a few years after the Mission was built.


A date farm we went to. The spaniards brought date palms to California and they've been here ever since! At this farm you can buy about 5 different varieties of dates, all of which are delicious.


Yuma also has beautiful sunsets. Its strange, but in Pacifica there's only a nice sunset maybe once every couple of weeks, whereas in Yuma basically every night looks like this.


Saguaro and Ocotillo cactus.


An ocotillo against the pretty sky...I like how you can see the spines!


My dad and I went out for a sunset hike, which is how I got all of these cool pictures.