Last weekend, Matt and I took a little road trip to Tucson! We both LOVE Ben Rector. We play his music in our house every single day. We saw he was performing at a music festival in Tucson and decided to make a weekend out of it. We took off Saturday afternoon and checked into our hotel. It was gorgeous!
The place was scattered with casitas built along a hill. This was the view from our front porch!
And a look out our back deck!
We took a quick walk around the grounds to check everything out. We made it to Sunset Point right at sunset! How often does that happen?? Obviously not that much because we were the only people there!
It's so crazy how quickly the sky changes in a matter of seconds when the sun is rising or setting.
The entire hotel was laid out beautifully. We feel like we need to go back and just have a vacation at the hotel next time!
That night we took in some of the music festival. There was no schedule printed so we really didn't know what we were getting ourselves in to. We saw David Nail and Billy Currington perform. I have always wanted to go to a Billy Currington concert so it worked out well! We missed Dan + Shay so we were kind of bummed. But the weather was absolutely perfect!!
Sunday morning we woke up and rented bikes from the hotel. We noticed a city trail as we were driving into town the day before so we headed that direction.
I had my breaks completely engaged about 75% of the way down this hill. (no shame!)
The trail was the most beautiful city trail I have ever been on! Those of you that know me well, know that is not hard to beat because I haven't been on too many trails. I did not get the bike riding gene like the rest of my family!
Gorgeous though, right?!
Next we drove up to the top of Mt. Lemmon. It was sunny and 80 degrees at the bottom, and rainy and 50 degrees at the top! We were not comfortable in our shorts!
Matt sent this snapchat out when we got to the top!
There are two little towns at the top, Ski Valley and Summerhaven. I had only been to Summerhaven, but Matt thought we should go check out Ski Valley. They were celebrating Oktoberfest so we enjoyed some yummy chili in the cute little hole in the wall turned German restaurant.
We were both wishing they would have turned the fireplace on! In the winter, this town is a ski resort. Oktoberfest was so cute!
They even had a band donned in German attire playing polka music.
Again, still cold, but loving every second!
We also made a quick stop in Summerhaven to grab a giant cookie from The Cookie Cabin!! On our way down we stopped at Windy Point Vista to take a few pictures. As you can tell, the peak of Mt. Lemmon wasn't the only place it was raining that day!
Then we were off to the music festival once again. It appeared to have rained on and off all day. Shortly after we got there we saw this beautiful rainbow!
So as I mentioned, we could not find a schedule listed so we tried to guess what time everyone would be performing. Turns out we missed Ben Rector by less than 10 minutes!! We were furious!!!! It felt like our entire weekend was ruined! After pouting for a few SEVERAL minutes we realized we still had an amazing weekend. The views were gorgeous and the time together was perfect.
Instead of Ben Rector we got to see Simple Plan. It was not a concert I ever thought I would go to, especially after 2005, but it was pretty good nonetheless.
We ended out evening watching Colbie Caillat!
I guess we will have to keep an eye on Ben Rector's tour schedule and try again. Our first music festival experience was not the greatest in the sense we missed most of the people we wanted to watch, but it was entertaining! Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!!
