Checking things off the Tucson Bucket list

While my family was in town we were able to check a lot off our Tucson bucket list before we move.  I've been wanting to go to a lot of these places for a while, but some were a little pricey.  I finally buckled down and got a Tucson Passport (which is a booklet of buy one get one free to a lot of Tucson's attractions) so we could finally go to these places.

Biosphere

One of the places both my mom and I have been wanting to see for a long time was the Biosphere 2.  The Biosphere is one of the largest greenhouses in the world, and back in the late 1980's 4 people locked themselves in here to see if they could survive on their own for 2 years.  Crazy.  I'd go nuts, but they made it.

We took a tour through many different eco structures and learned how the 4 scientists survived and what they learned during their 2 year experiment.  Carson liked going through the bat cave (some underground tunnels). It was really fascinating.

The Titan Missile Museum

Brad drives past this museum everyday on his way to work and we have never gone until now.  We went while Carson was in preschool, because we heard it was boring for kids.  I thought Tanner would do fine, but he made it really difficult to listen to the tour.  

The gist of it was, that we had this Missile ready to launch at any moment during the cold war.  It was to try to scare the Russians into not bombing us.  This missile is worse then the Atomic bomb.  Its blast radius would obliterate the length of San Diego, California to El Paseo, Texas. 

The Pima Air and Space Museum

Can you tell my family likes museums yet?  Another museum we went to was the air and space museum.  Everyone around us told us that this was a favorite and now I know why.  We have driven past the bone yard (where old/non-working planes go to rest) dozens of times and I always thought it would be cool to see.

The boys loved it.  There were so many planes to see you could really spend days looking at all the stuff.  They even had a moon rock (it was more like a pebble, but apparently worth millions).  They had lots of planes from WWII to Gulf War.  Of course if you know our family you'd know that the WWII ones were favorites.  We love WWII things.  

a replica of the first plane by the Wright Brothers

 the boys on the moon!

The Children's Museum 

For the kids enjoyment (and Tim & Aarons) we went to the Children's museum to mess around and have some fun.

 the closest Aaron will ever get to riding a motorcycle

Other fun

Some other fun things we did while the family was in town was playing mini golf.  Our community has a small course and we hardly use it.  Carson loved it and now asks to go play golf all the time.

Aaron and Tim would play soccer, read bedtime stories, play Candyland and Chutes and Ladders, and go swimming with Carson & Tanner.  It was nice to have them around!

Before they left we had to take them them to El Guero Canello to try some authentic Mexican Sonoran dogs.

As always we love having visitors and having some playmates!  It really was a fun filled week and went by way too fast.  Love ya guys!