Our first day in Arizona started early...thank you 2 hour time change :) We went out with Jess and her little girl to do a Mine Tour at the Queen mine. It is a horizontal mine so we could ride a train straight into the mountain on a little train. They use to mine silver, copper, and gold from this mine and they showed us some examples in one of the caves.
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| Ella ready for the train ride |
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| Going into the Mine |
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| 700 feet in |
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| How they use dynamite |
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| Toilet car |
After the trip into the mine Jess took Ella back home and we went to Bisbee to take their trolley tour of the city. It was really interesting to hear how the town was a mining town and when the mine closed at the end of the 70's the town because almost completely deserted. Then some Hippie's from Berkley came and moved in, you only have to live somewhere for a year to claim squatter rights.
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| Downtown |
This sign was less then 100 feet from a guy trying to hitch hike :) After our tour we drove to the grocery store to pick up some things for Jess before heading home. On our way to the store we saw a storm was coming in and by the time we left it had started to rain. This was strange because right now they shouldn't be getting rain...and then we realized it had started to hail!
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| Pea size hail |
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| View from the house |
It was crazy seeing the ground covered...it looked like snow! We hung out with Jess while Ella napped and then got dinner together while watching a baseball game. We had a great time hanging out at the house with Matt and Jess.
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