On to Tombstone

 So of all the places I wanted to visit while I toured the southwest Tombstone was on at the top of the list.  I'm a history kinda girl and it is chalk full of it.  Sadly I got sick around that time.  Yeah it was stupid on my part, some super dehydration.  I was nauseous for most of the day.  Little queasy at tombstone (at first I attributed it to the negitive energy of Tombstone) but it only got worse as the day went on, actually that was the reason the trip was cut short. But that is neither here nor there at this point.





So Tina and I left Tuscon early in the day and headed south, on a path that would take us really close to the Mexican border. To another town that I wanted to see, but slept through (I did go back later with the parents though).  Arizona is kinda pretty.  They have mountains, cacti, and animals.  I enjoyed the drive.  We got to Tombstone early and natually found the museum.  It was the old courthouse. 






They had an overview of the OK Corral, and the Earp brothers.  I am not a huge fan of Wyatt Earp as he was kinda a jerk.  But Doc Holliday intrigues me.  Upstairs the courthouse was set up just as it was in the 1800's.  So it was kinda neat to see.  Outside you could go see Tombstone as it was... well kinda.  Part of the town is the tourist feature.  One street mainly done in dirt and all fixed up pretty. 





They have the OK Corral where they talk about the empty lot that the gunfight took place in.  They lay out the time line and the events leading up to it.  Pretty nifty actually.  Then you have old timey stores and business on both sides of the dusty old street.  Then you show up at Big Nose Kate's Saloon (assuming it was later named after her as a nod to Tombstone history).  Where you learn a little about Kate.  She was Doc's girlfriend (may or may not have been a prostitute- no one really knows), and he felt she was his intellectual equal.  She ran a boarding house, might have run a brothel, and often gets confused with Tombstones' Rowdy Kate.









At the far end of the street is the Birdcage Theater.  Legend has it that 26 people were killed there as it was the meanest, rowdiest places in Tombstone and there is still 120ish bullet holes in the joint.

Wild Thing: Creepy Crawlies

Velvet Ants

 
Going through my pictures I have found a bunch of bugs.  I am not a huge bug person, they are kinda creepy.  Sometimes they are interesting and like to get pictures of them.  Well so long as they are behind glass... I like them that way.  Yeah, I am a girl... what of it!

Some sort of Malaysian Beetle

Scorpion

Grasshopper from the Grand Canyon

Grasshopper from Malaysia

Black Widow

So I have a bad habit of taking pictures of flowers that have bugs on them.  They are really cool and I never notice the bugs.  I am trying to figure out how this happens.  Cause I am sure if I tried I would never manage it.  It is kinda funny.  And this is the only one I can find that is any good.  Pretty sure I've lost several over the years.

Petals: Tucson Arizona

So in the Spring of 2008, after my first Y'stone Winter, I went to the desert with the parents to try and get warm.  Unfortunately it is cold there, excepting a few days in Tucson, Roswell, and Death Valley.  Yeah.  So this next installment of my awesome petals series is going to be about Tucson!  We spent a few days in Tucson, staying with a friend of my dad, one from his IBM days.  I like Tucson a lot even if it a huge city.  I should mention that I'd been to Tucson once before.  When Tina and I did our tour of the Southwest, but we only spent the afternoon their, and it was in the fall.

The fall, as you might imagine was quite different from the spring.  There were still flowers, but not as many as the spring.  The colors seemed muted.  It rained the day me and Tina got there.  It was a quick rain storm.  Must have lasted less than a half and hour.  It was kinda cool, nonetheless.  And when I was there in the spring, it was really, really, really hot.  I much preferred the cooler day of the fall.

Tuscon was fun, but I think that if I wanted to go back, then I would go in the fall again.  The desert flowers would be cool to see again.  But the heat is something I am not too fond of.  It would be cool to see some of the other parts of Tucson, like the national parks and back up Mt. Lemmon, which was super high and kinda scary.

The Canyon is Grand

I never know what to blog about.  I am always afraid that I am boring you wonderful people who read this.  But alas, I don't think so.  So it does become hard to keep it fresh.  Don't get me wrong I haven't scratched the surface on my pics, but I don't want to be too repetitious.
It has also been hard to get new stuff.  I've been a bit under the weather lately.  It's been a slow process but I have finally succumbed to it.  So I have spent the last few days being lazy and waiting impatiently for the hockey season to start.Oh and the weather has been crap, so I am not braving the elements just yet.