The amazing hunt for a hot tub while down in Arizona, part dos. Public nudity.

As I last left you (which was quite a while ago, sorry about that) we had just gone to a "haunted mansion" in the woods got freaked out by all the people that were already at a supposedly abandoned house. Now you may be wondering what this has to do with finding hot tubs, this area comes to play in a big way in a later on. Trust me.

Anyways a couple days later after a long day of riding horses up in the mountains, which I should mention kind of scared me a little. Even though it was only my second time, running around on small trails and such didn't really bother me, but I don't think my horse liked me or anyone else for that matter. In fact I have to give mad props to Lisa, she's probably one of the bravest persons I know. Seeing as my horse, named Cliff, nearly kicked her... twice. In fact the second time she nearly got kicked in the face as my horse kicked both his feet back and Lisa's head was pretty much in between his two hooves. Now I don't know about you, but I would have crapped my pants right there, no hesitation, time to turn around and get a new pair. But it didn't even phase Lisa. That's hardcore.

Needless to say after all that riding, we needed a hot tub. However, that just was not in the cards.

Apparently, near Thatcher, and I use the word near very loosely as it was quite a drive to get there, there's a hot spring (I also use the phrase hot loosely, because as I will explain I really have no proof that it's actually hot), and that was our destination. After a 20 minute drive we were there, and so were a bunch of other people. We passed one hot tub/spring with a couple of people in it in favor of another that was supposedly larger and better. However, that larger and better one was full. So we decided to go to the smaller one with a couple (meaning a guy and a girl presumably boyfriend/girlfriend) in there. We soon found out why it was nearly empty.

The following is exactly what went down that night as we entered the hot tub area:

"Come on in. There's plenty of room," says the girl in the hot tub

Now as we walk in something doesn't quite look right but we're not close enough to the hot tub to notice what's really going down. The closer we get the clearer it gets, the two people in the hot tub aren't wearing any clothes, at all. Fortunately it was dark enough outside and the water was murky enough that their bits and pieces were covered up but there was no way I was going to get in. However, I followed along because this was a golden opportunity for awkward amazingness and I wanted to see the reactions (I probably didn't get any bonus points toward heaven for that but it was worth it).

"Are you guys wearing clothes?" Shanna asked, after she had hung her towel up and had turned to get in.

"Yeah," the naked hot tub girl replied, "But could you guys turn around while I get my boyfriend's boxers."

As we all turned around, we heard her get out of the hot tub run to the fence, grab something off the fence, and then jump back into the hot tub, cannonball style. After this exchange, it was clear what had been going on in the hot tub and at this point the reactions of the group ranged from hysterical laughter (that'd be me and Lisa), shock and humor (Logan, Jon, Shanna, Felicia), utter horror (Halie) and total obliviousness (Mike). In fact, Mike was so oblivious after the girl had run to get her boyfriends boxers he still headed toward the hot tub and started to climb in. \

"MIKE!" we all yelled. He looked up and noticed the nakedness and jumped back.

"I think we're gonna go somewhere else," Shanna then said.

"No, it's okay. You can come in. Does anyone have a shirt I can use?" naked hot tub girl replied.

"That's okay, we're gonna go somewhere else," Shanna replied.

We then turned around and left. Now at this point, you have to realize I was doing everything I could to keep from bursting out in a fit of laughter, biting my tongue, not looking at anyone in the group. Everything. But I lost all control when I heard the naked hot tub guy yell to us as we were leaving.

"It's not like we were having sex or anything," he yelled.