The Bird's vacation
Dec. 31st, 2009 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdWe made it through our vacation without any mishaps or snow.
The biggest problem? Going up a really nasty twisty winding road and then having my mom throw up afterward. And the cold. 27 degrees Fahrenheit which is nasty for me because I've lived in LA my entire life and generally don't experience such things.
The first day we went and visited my mom's friend since she was in second grade. We had lunch at her country club restaurant and took a nice walk through the club's residential areas. When we got back there was fried chicken to eat. My mom loves that particular fried chicken. She was very upset when she thought that she wasn't going to be getting it. For a while it was going to be pot roast. But my mom made sure that it was going to be Fried Chicken. And it was good fried chicken.
Monday we went out to Sedona and Jerome. Lovely scenery, but not much else except strip malls in Sedona. Jerome was art galleries and antique shops. As well as a few nice museums. And of course a long winding road to get back down. Then my dad decided that it would be fun to go for a walk. At night. In the cold. He over-ruled everyone's objections to such activities with Come on, let's go. Nothing like frozen toes.
Tuesday we went to the wild life refuge in Prescott. It was fantastic. Though the cages were small, as in all zoos and things like that. The animals were all well taken care of and looked healthy. They were all rescues that couldn't be returned to the wild. There were little bobcat kittens, a badger, emus, wallabies, a black bear, tiger, pronghorn antelope, but no jackalope. A red tail hawk. I never got to see one so close before. It was just bigger than I thought it could be. And she was beautiful. Also a vulture and lemurs. We did this with my mom's friend. After that we went to the Charlotte Hall museum which was all about the history of Prescott and the Arizona territories. We missed the gift shop by about two minutes. After that we wandered around down town -where we had wandered before in the cold dark night- and looked at the galleries there.
Wednesday we drove back. We stopped off at these dinosaurs that are along route 10. When I first saw them, it was just the brontosaurus, the t-rex was being built. All around it was dirt. Dirt and more dirt. It was a dirt parking lot even. When we drove by today, there was a Burger King, a mini-theme park with robot dinosaurs, a gas station, another food place store thing coffee shop. The dinosaurs had also, sadly, been turned into a creationist museum. Sadly I didn't notice it until after I bought dinosaurs. I was a little bit focused on the Dinosaurs in the gift shop. Because they were dinosaurs and dinosaurs are neat and awesome and they had dinosaurs that I didn't have. So... yeah. Really cool dinosaurs. Sucky people running the place. Oh well. After that we had dinner with my dad's sister at Norms. Which was nice. She's always so glad to see him and vice versa. Finally! we got home.
I had a nice real shower. Got snubbed by the cat after I fed him. And went to bed in my bed. After discovering that I left my toiletries bag in my parent's van.
The biggest problem? Going up a really nasty twisty winding road and then having my mom throw up afterward. And the cold. 27 degrees Fahrenheit which is nasty for me because I've lived in LA my entire life and generally don't experience such things.
The first day we went and visited my mom's friend since she was in second grade. We had lunch at her country club restaurant and took a nice walk through the club's residential areas. When we got back there was fried chicken to eat. My mom loves that particular fried chicken. She was very upset when she thought that she wasn't going to be getting it. For a while it was going to be pot roast. But my mom made sure that it was going to be Fried Chicken. And it was good fried chicken.
Monday we went out to Sedona and Jerome. Lovely scenery, but not much else except strip malls in Sedona. Jerome was art galleries and antique shops. As well as a few nice museums. And of course a long winding road to get back down. Then my dad decided that it would be fun to go for a walk. At night. In the cold. He over-ruled everyone's objections to such activities with Come on, let's go. Nothing like frozen toes.
Tuesday we went to the wild life refuge in Prescott. It was fantastic. Though the cages were small, as in all zoos and things like that. The animals were all well taken care of and looked healthy. They were all rescues that couldn't be returned to the wild. There were little bobcat kittens, a badger, emus, wallabies, a black bear, tiger, pronghorn antelope, but no jackalope. A red tail hawk. I never got to see one so close before. It was just bigger than I thought it could be. And she was beautiful. Also a vulture and lemurs. We did this with my mom's friend. After that we went to the Charlotte Hall museum which was all about the history of Prescott and the Arizona territories. We missed the gift shop by about two minutes. After that we wandered around down town -where we had wandered before in the cold dark night- and looked at the galleries there.
Wednesday we drove back. We stopped off at these dinosaurs that are along route 10. When I first saw them, it was just the brontosaurus, the t-rex was being built. All around it was dirt. Dirt and more dirt. It was a dirt parking lot even. When we drove by today, there was a Burger King, a mini-theme park with robot dinosaurs, a gas station, another food place store thing coffee shop. The dinosaurs had also, sadly, been turned into a creationist museum. Sadly I didn't notice it until after I bought dinosaurs. I was a little bit focused on the Dinosaurs in the gift shop. Because they were dinosaurs and dinosaurs are neat and awesome and they had dinosaurs that I didn't have. So... yeah. Really cool dinosaurs. Sucky people running the place. Oh well. After that we had dinner with my dad's sister at Norms. Which was nice. She's always so glad to see him and vice versa. Finally! we got home.
I had a nice real shower. Got snubbed by the cat after I fed him. And went to bed in my bed. After discovering that I left my toiletries bag in my parent's van.
