After we were done at the cave, we continued our trip on to Tombstone. They celebrate Wyatt Earp days every Memorial Day weekend, so we went and checked it out. We stayed in a hotel Friday night, and then spent all day Saturday walking around downtown Tombstone. There were mock street fights (which were hilarious!)
and a shooting gallery. S shot a gun for the first time. One day it will be real bullets instead of paintballs. They both did really well though and hit their targets in the head and chest almost every time!
Allan has been wanting to take me in an underground mine for a long time, and he finally got a chance to do it. We took a tour of an old underground silver mine. One of the best things about the tour was that their credit card machine ran out of paper right before we got there, and we didn't have much cash left, so the guy let us in for $5/person rather than $15/person. The mine was pretty cool to see and the tour guide did a good job. While we were there they told us about another mine tour that is a 2 1/2 hour hike crawling around in the smaller tunnels. I want to go back and do that one! Allan isn't convinced yet though. ;)
We took a tour of the town in a old-fashioned trolley, looked through a bunch of shops, explored a museum, watched a comedy gunfight show, and went to the Boot Hill Cemetery where they buried everyone that died during the time that Tombstone was a booming mining town. The inscriptions on the headstones were definitely different from what you might see in other cemeteries. There were a lot of people that were killed by somebody else. One poor fellow's headstone said that he was taken for the wrong man and hanged as the truth of his identity was not learned until after his death. A lot of headstones just said "Unknown" and only one that we saw said "Died a natural death".
We got home late Saturday night, and then took a slow Sunday of Church and not much else. Monday we got up and went on a tour of the mine that Allan works at. It's a very different mine from the one we toured in Tombstone. The tiny dark blobs in the picture are two-story tall haul trucks. Allan showed us all of the cracks in the walls that he's been monitoring and showed us where they have begun digging a new pit.
After the tour we showed Sarah a housing development that we wouldn't mind living in someday, and then we went home and had a BBQ. We played Settlers of Catan that night for Family Night. It was S's first time, and she almost won despite our "help".
Tuesday Allan went to work while S and I watched a movie and went shopping. S taught me how to french braid and braid inside-out. I've tried it on myself a couple of times and I keep getting stuck, I need someone to practice on! That night we went to the park and played croquet, Allan and I's new favorite game. Allan beat S and I the first game when we were still only about 1/2 way through!
This is Allan holding the ball for S to hit. We won't say how many times his foot got hit before she connected with the ball.:) I recorded them doing this and now we have a hilarious video of Allan's true love for his sister! When he loves somebody he never gives up on them! ;)
Wednesday S flew back home. We were so sad to see her go but we sure had a lot of fun with her while she was here.
Looks like it was a fun visit! Family is great!
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