Desert Diaries: About Town

When we lived in Logan, we were forever saying "we need to do...." or "we need to see..." and never did many of the things right around us. You know how it goes? You think you have all the time in the world to do those things nearby. Well, we didn't do them and then we decided to move, so we tried to cram them all in in the last few months we were there and, of course did not get to it all.

This summer, we are doing somethings about town that we have heard about since we moved here and have not done yet. Some of them we did many, many years ago when we would visit Dave's parents at Thanksgiving each year and play tourist. But now we are doing them as real live citizens of Tucson.

Last week we went to see Biospere 2. The remains of a scientific project that was done in the early 90's to see if a group of people could live totally sealed inside a bubble/dome/community for 3 years with no help form the outside world. They are now conducting many research projects having to do with weather, erosion, water, tempurature, etc. on plants and soil. We did not get any pictures that day (typical of me). We went with our friends from the Simpson family.

A few days later, we went to Bisbee, AZ to see the Copper Queen Mine. We donned mining gear, road and old mine train down underground and learned about mining copper, lead, and zinc. We did this activity with some very good friends from the neightborhood - Kimber, Tyler and Aiden. Thanks to Kimber we got lots of great pictures of our adventure. Reese did great - she loved the bumpy train ride. The kids found a fun park to play in while we waited for our table at lunch.

It was a wonderful day, except for the part where I thought we were going to have to push the car to Bisbee because we were running on empty for quite some time. At least there were a lot of us that could help push. Bisbee is a neat little town - it would be fun to explore it more when we have some time again.

I love this picture of Reese at lunch - she was hungry and on the verge of getting mad.

Today we went to the Pima Air and Space Museum with Kimber and boys where we saw many, many, many different forms of flight. I was amazed at all the shapes and sizes that aircraft come in! The biggest hit of the day was the hands on area where the kids could get into cockpits and pretend to fly. Maybe we have a future pilot among us. I forgot my camera (typical) so here is a crappy picture I took with my phone.