What I really wanted to blog about on Saturday...

Or what I actually wanted to blog about on Saturday and just never did get to it was our trip in our MINI. Here's CoopahS at the Grand Canyon.

Have I mentioned that we have a MINI Cooper S, CoopahS? He is a 2005 BMW Mini Cooper S with a Webb Cold Air Intake, a 15% reduction pulley, really sticky 17" tires, a strut tower brace, and an H-Sport rear sway bar. He even has his own website. Last Saturday, he managed to output 162 horsepower at the Dynamic Mini Collective's dyno day at a performance shop in Mesa. I just heard about it. I was at a cool workshop but more about that later.

So yesterday my sweetie and I went on a run with the Rat Pack (the Desert Rat Pack is the Phoenix chapter of the DMC) that Dan, my sweetie, had organized. He got up earlier than early and primed me well with Starbucks. Then off we went to Mesa to meet up with other Rat Pack members at a Starbucks where I had another venti mocha caramel frappacino light with whip and drizzles, this time with an extra shot of espresso. That's the ticket!

We saw all kinds of fun things and really scared ourselves on one turn. It was uphill with no guardrail and a surprise decreasing radius turn. Before we knew it, we were headed for the edge! Whew! Dan quickly turned a little tighter and without even a squeak from a tire, we were on our way. What a great thing that MINIs stop so quickly!

After the trip to the top, we stopped where the pavement does and milled around yakking and taking some photos. I was trying to get a photo of the perfect heart-shaped cactus leaf! It's in the center of the photo, the lone vertical leaf.