Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Weekend Recap

I'm starting to get used to all of the cactus in Arizona.  There may actually be more in Arizona than in Texas.

Here's a bulleted list of our itinerary.  The pictures will follow.
  • We visited Kartchner Caverns.  It is one of the most well preserved live caves in the world.  No pictures though... due to the conservation on the cave. 
  • We checked into the hotel in Tucson and then went on a little nature walk to the hotel waterfall.  The natural part is a little questionable considering the waterfall contained more water than we saw in our entire trip.  Odd.
  • We went to a fancy shmancy dinner in Tucson. Okay it wasn't that fancy.  But we liked it none the less.  No pictures. Sorry.
  • Sunday we woke up and then went to a cute Farmer's Market.  This was only after I convinced William we would be able to find something better to eat there than at Sonic.  It was a tough sell.  
  • We then headed over to 4th Street where there was a car show going on.  Aren't I such a nice wife taking my husband to a car show.  It was a fun atmosphere.  We grabbed some pizza at a place on 4th.
  • Then we headed to the movies.  We saw The King's Speech which I have been wanting to see forever! It was great.  William liked it too. He even let me talking about stuttering for a full 10 minutes at dinner after the movie.  I had to ask permission first though.
  • Monday we got breakfast or lunch or something.  Yea... we didn't get up early. Then we headed to the Sonoran Desert Museum.  It was pretty fun.  We saw some hawks.
  • Then William dropped me off at the airport 2 hours early because he likes to torture me. And then I flew home. 


The view from our room
I could lay down flat in the bottom of this bathtub... it was huge!
Green trees.... green because the bark has chlorophyll for photosynthesis since it doesn't have leaves! Neato! 
Saguaro Cactus... forests of them everywhere in Arizona

Adequately named the "Shindagger" cactus!
Ouchy





The hotel
Purple Cactus... duh
Farmer's Market entertainment

So much better than Sonic... Fresh Tamales!


Random Orange trees


Front of our hotel
The view at the desert museum


Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?

Wolf
William's favorite... the fox. 



Harris Hawks in a flight demonstration!

Hummers... so fast.  
It was a great weekend.  I don't mind Arizona... but William says we can't move there.  Not sure why... but it's fine with me.

1 comment:

Shelley and Abe said...

Peyton -
Your pictures make me so homesick!!! I am glad you guys are having fun exploring! Too bad you didn't get the all clear to move there, we are hoping to make our way back soon...we could hang out :)