Camping this weekend....

Labor Day- 3 day weekend. I really didn't want to go camping, but even the "cheap" hotels were 300.00/night...so...camping we went. Zero chance of rain the day prior to leaving. Then, on the day we left, it was only supposed to rain one day. I checked about 12 hours later and it said- two days of rain. Then a few hours later, 3 days of rain:(( Plus, being a holiday weekend, or just a weekend in general, the entire European and Japanese population was in Sedona. We went into Sedona- a short 20 minute drive from where we were camping at Dead Horse Ranch in Cottonwood- early on Sunday morning. At around 8 AM, the streets were already so crowded that there was no place to park and there was literally a 10 mile line of cars coming into town. So, it wasn't our greatest vacation ever, but it was still fun. First day in Sedona. Camping in the rain! Sunday morning was actually clear for a couple of hours:) We took a walk around Dead Horse Ranch Lake around 7 AM. We figured we'd better get some sightseeing in before it rained again. After walking around the lake, we went into Sedona for "shopping". Jasmine wanted to get a souvenir with her own money. I said, "Hate to tell you Jazzy, but there is nothing in Sedona that you can buy with what you have in your piggy bank". It's a super expensive touristy place. She loved the Pink Princess Sedona Ranger vest:) Playing an instrument on the sidewalk in Sedona:) We went home and we (meaning *I*) had a big mess to clean up!