Exploring "The Old Pueblo"

With such mild winters (it's been in the 70s!!!), we have gotten out a bit to explore our city.

First stop, downtown. They are really working to vamp up downtown, with the new tram system, new eateries, and fun events for the family. I kind of love it, since Reno's downtown was a bit lackluster, and full of smokey casinos.

We took the girls to the transportation museum, where they got to ride the animal train, and then walked downtown for a little while. They also love the Oklahoma! train, which we have visited before.

Then, we went to the Pima Air and Space Museum one weekend. It is a huge airplane graveyard of retired military and special operations airplanes. There are several hangars and then miles of land that have airplanes outdoors. The girls loved it, and we loved that they could just run around outside for a couple hours.

puts into perspective how huge these were! 

NASA 

Air Force One Plane that
carried the assassinated JFK back to DC 

I miss watching these fly over the San Fran Bay during fleet week! 

That's one expensive art project!




We also bought the Tucson Passport to motivate us to get out more. It has already paid for itself and we've only used it twice! Next stop: Tucson Botanical Gardens and BUTTERFLIES!!!!