Friday, June 25th, 2010
My friend Amanda has come to visit me! I’m so happy she’s up here with me for a little while. We’re planning on making a fun dinner (Chicken in a Brown Sauce from me and a dessert fruit pizza from Amanda), going for a short hike, visiting The Three Bears creamery, and just having fun. We’re headed off to Flagstaff tomorrow. It will be an amazing weekend!
Amanda and I went to the Kaibab Lodge for dinner last night. It was late when we got there and we didn’t leave until about 10 pm. It’s pretty much a full moon out there. The meadows looked rather eerie, but I could see fairly well. We cross into one meadow and I see something loping towards the road, so I slow down. Amanda said to watch out for the deer. I kept watching it thinking it wasn’t quite running like a deer.
It ran out right in front of us and I stopped dead in the middle of the highway.
It never stopped running, it just sort of gave us this look of, “What are you doing here? You’re bothering me.” It made it across the road, never breaking pace, in about two bounds.
It was a full-grown mountain lion.
And no, I didn’t get a picture! Darnit.
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