Here are some pics from our amazing vacation in Arizona. Enjoy.

This first pic is a photo of Jim and his friend (and now my friend) Florin who lives in Bucharest. Hopefully Jim and I will be able to go to Romania next year to visit him. Florin is an activist of GLBT people (and the pastor of the church) in Bucharest. He takes a risk everyday as people are much more conservative and closed-minded there.

A photo of me next to a cactus outside of our room at the resort. I was pretending that I had touched it and I had hurt my finger. I'm not a ham or anything.

A photo of Jim feeding the ducks at the resort. This is how we started every morning; going out and feeding them. They would see us from the other side of the pond and then hop in the water and swim over as fast as they could. Sometimes they'd even hop up onto the grass. It was a lot of fun. I didn't get a chance to feed the sparrows which ran rampant by the outside bar at the resort. Jim tried to feed the sparrows one morning and the woman behind the bar told him not to. I was going to sit where no one could see me but I never got a chance; too busy.

A photo of my feet after the first day in Phoenix, AZ. I wore sandals the first day and wore sneakers for the rest of the week. They are still healing almost two weeks later.

These are my favorite kind of cactus (cacti?). I believe they are called saguaro. This is sunset at the resort.

Some more cacti we saw at the resort.

There were lots of cacti at the resort; it was Phoenix and desert like. These are barrel cacti. They aren't my favorite but photo worthy nonetheless.

I went on a horseback riding day trip. It wasn't fast riding but trail riding. This is a pic of me before the trip. I am on a Pinto named Beau. I decided to wear a helmet so my head wouldn't burn (Jim says I look retarded; how un-pc).

Me with Jay Bakker (yes, Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker's son). He was part of a panel at the conference in AZ and, for me, it was the highlight of the conference. I waited in line twice to get my pic with him. The first time my spouse turned the camera off instead of taking the pic. Jay preaches to the GLBT community that they are loved and God loves them for who they are. He's a straight ally and I really look up to him.

A pic of our bed (which we could have had a party in) at the resort. When we checked in our room wasn't ready so they offered us a mini-suite at no extra charge. How nice!

A pic of the rest of our mini-suite at the resort. Yes, there's my honey talking on the phone (naturally).

A pic of our closet at the resort. I was excited and camera happy, ok?

The first pic of our bathroom at the resort. The little room on the left side of the pic leads into the shower.

The second picture of our bathroom at the resort we stayed at in Phoenix, AZ. We could have had a party in there. There was a shower that would have fit four people easily and a tub that would have fit at least three and another four or five could have stood around the sink which is seen here.

A picture of a real live roadrunner. Smaller than the one portrayed in the Looney Tunes cartoons but just as fast. It didn't actually run like the cartoon roadrunner but we could see it's feet moving pretty damn fast. It probably would have run if we tried to chase it. Jim decided to try and make the noise it was making and it started coming toward the jeep we were in. It crossed right in front of the jeep but was moving way too fast for me to get a better pic of it.

The first of two pics of mule deer. Not a great pic but I couldn't get the deer to stand still.

During one of our daily outings, our wildlife tour, we saw some mule deer. They have long ears like mules. This is the second pic and it's not a great one and while the guide stopped so I could take a pic the deer did not stop.

The first pic of me dancing a Native American friendship dance. You can see my backside; the one with the tan looking shirt and blue jeans.

A picture of me dancing a friendship dance with a Native American girl. I'm the one right next to the small girl on the left; she has little jingly things on her dress. I'm in the tan shirt and blue jeans with the sunglasses.

A photo of some ravens outside of our hotel room in Grand Canyon, AZ. We did not have a pleasant stay at that hotel and neither did a number of other people we spoke with.