What a beautiful morning! It's MLK's birthday and we decided to visit the Arizona Desert Museum. What dopes...kids off from school...what were we thinking? It's a well done outdoor museum that displays desert life. It's a one mile walk that takes about two hours with a lot of desert detail. Afterwards we drove through the Saguaro National Park. It's named after the Saguaro cactus (picture) which can typically reach heights of 50 feet. They don't even have "arms" until they're 75 years old (notice my extensive desert knowledge). An hours drive though the park and we were done with the desert for awhile, so we stopped at the San Xavier Mission on our way back to Green Valley. We spent most of our time there eating the "Fry Bread" made in the parking lot by the locals. The honey, cinnamon, powdered sugar was the best.
We finished the day by seeing a movie "Charlie Wilson's War". My favorite line is when Julia Roberts asks Charlie "Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?" and he replies "Tradition, mostly". I thought it was one of the better movies I saw this year. We followed the movie with a pleasant dinner at Manuela's.
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Extensive desert knowledge, my ass. Sylvia is reading to you from a tour book called "interesting facts about the saguaro cactus."
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