Sunday, after church at Calvary Baptist, we decided to use Rich and Lynn's gift card for Red Lobster, one of my favorites! As we got into line we realized that we were right behind a couple that we sat behind in church. Upon speaking to them, we ended up sharing a table with them and had a wonderful visit!
That same evening we went to a presentation on Historic Route 66 before our ice cream social in Regal Hall. It was very good and we hope to make some more trips to that area.
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| Been there and done that! |
Monday we began our normal genealogy, laundry and scrapbooking, Picasa class, trip to Walmart, and the switch repair for the four-ways on the motor home. Wednesday was another day to loaf and catch up at home. Gary has been doing a lot of colored pencil work. Esther is pleased that he is working on horses!
Wednesday began with cancellation of my scrapbooking, so we left on a trip going toward Tucson to check out the Biosphere 2, a unique research facility, which is one of the largest greenhouses of the world and one of the most remarkable structures ever built to better understand how natural environments generate conditions appropriate for life, from the rain forests to the deserts.
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| Giant greenhouse for matching different environments from around the world, including the rain forests. |
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| Our tour guide |
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| Sea life environment on the left. |
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| Energy center provides power and temperature regulation for Biosphere 2. We could not go into this area for safety reasons. |
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| Going to the lower levels. |
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| Lower level nicknamed the "Lungs" which are variable air-volume control devices. |
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| Inside the structure, but outside the "lungs" looking up at the outer side of the "lungs".'. |
This is now owned by Arizona University and is used for student research as well as other scientist's research.
It was a tiring day because of all of the walking and step climbing! We stopped afterward for lunch at Jerry Bob's in Catalina for Rubens and a second wind. Good thing because we still had a concert to go to that evening in Regal Hall here in the park
Dunlap and Pennington entertained us on the grand piano and an organ/orchestra/computer, the Wersi.
And of course, my battery went dead. Thus I copied pictures from the Internet the hard way! You could look them up on the Internet to hear them. They were awesome and got two standing ovations from our crowd! I would go to hear them again in a minute and would like to get the CD of the program (which they were out of that night). Hope to find them playing somewhere again.
From Thursday on our week was much the usual classes/workshops with a new windshield replacement in the Honda. We noticed some thing hit us on the last trip to the airport and a few days later it began to crack (which just kept getting longer). Of course, the repair was not as good as it should have been and Gary had to take it back to them to correct it. Gary says, "his luck as usual".
Gary just returned from getting an oil change in the Honda, so I timed this just right!
Take care and stay warm. It is cooler today because of the wind, but still 61 degrees is not bad.
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