In the morning we got up early and hiked the trail by the Sedona airport to get to the center of one of the spiritual vortexes in Sedona. We kept checking in with each other to see if we felt anything special, but we concluded it was hard not to feel something when the views were so spectacular.
After the hike we had one interesting case of synchronicity happen that also made us think maybe there was something to the vortex. Abe ran back to get the car so I wouldn’t be late to my energy healing appointment, and I was waiting at the center of the vortex because I preferred that to waiting in the parking lot. At one point I got a feeling to go down to meet Abe. I immediately that there was no way he was already there to pick us up and that I didn’t want to wait around by a busy road with the kids, but for some odd reason I gathered the kids and hiked down to the parking lot, arriving at the exact moment that Abe pulled up.
So I don’t know what to think. It seems like a spiritual vortex should be doing something more significant than improving a rendezvous experience, but at the same time it was really nice not to have to wait around for Abe and to have such a peaceful, happy experience when we did meet up with him. So if that was the vortex at work, thank you Vortex! Also I should note that for no reason at all Abe, Lydia and I had trouble sleeping the night before this hike and had very vivid dreams. Abe’s dream was obviously a surge from his subconscious, and a week later I can still recall mine too. Some people say the energy swirling around Sedona makes it hard to sleep. Huh.
After we met up Abe and the kids dropped me off for my energy healing session. I don’t know if I believe in energy healers, but since humans clearly have energy and Sedona is a Mecca for energy healers, I thought I would give it a try. It was really expensive, and I was torn about that, but when I think about how much money we wasted on tithing, I thought why not? It’s not even close to that and maybe there will be some spiritual pay-off!
After the session I really don’t know what to think. I didn’t particularly like my energy healer or the things she said to me, but maybe that’s a sign that she was just truth telling and the truth is always hard to hear. She did have amazing eyes that just poured out light and for a couple days afterward my body felt pretty light. But was it worth the money and would I do it again? No and no. I am starting to conclude that anyone who is monetizing anything spiritually related is probably a fraud. In short, perhaps I am becoming a skeptic.
After Abe and the kids picked me up we drove to the Chapel of the Holy Cross, a church built into a Sedona cliff. It was really, really crowded, but still quite pretty.
Then we drove to the Grand Canyon. I was in kind of a bad mood from the energy healer session and also kind of crazy and stressed at the idea that the kids might fall in. But the Grand Canyon is much more amazing than I remember, and Abe said it was the highlight of the whole trip. Considering this trip had more views than any we’ve ever taken, that was a big statement. If I had been in a better mood it might have been a highlight for me too, but as it was all I wanted was to see it and retreat with all of my kids in one piece.
When we got back to our hotel we thought we’d try the restaurant. This was a really nice Hilton resort (we got to stay for free with our points!) and because of Covid and the kids feeling slightly under the weather, we couldn’t use any of the cool resort facilities (like the amazing pools). But we decided to try the restaurant and the food was soooooooo good. The kids got a pumpkin stuffed with mushrooms and quinoa, a beet burrata salad and some interesting stuffed and fried numbers. Abe got a very filling steak and I had a delicious salad that I can still taste in memory. Yum.
Ammon slept through the whole thing and at one point woke and begged to be put to bed, so I took him to bed. Abe and the girls stayed behind and scored a table with a fire pit to make s’mores. They had a great time staying up late and being silly together. I’m really glad they had that time. When I am with the kids in public I spend a lot of time shushing everyone and anxiously (needlessly, usually) worrying that we are disturbing everybody. Abe is much more able to let the kids be themselves and not care what other people think, so I imagine they all had a great time (as they all reported after).
