"Day-cation"

So the kids had a week off of school and Dave took a day off of work and we jumped in the car and started driving. We had planned a route, just some places we hadn't been before, and we started driving. We found this drink-hole for cattle in the hills outside of Globe. So we got out and explored. The kids loved it. They felt like they were real explorers.




Then we drove some more. We saw Christmas, AZ on the map and decided to stop. Here's what we saw:

It was a campground.

This bus was parked there...the only vehicle. It was called The Magic Bus and was pretty interesting.


We saw the Gila River there also. It was pretty fast.

Allison looks like she's fishing...she's just playing with a big stick.


We drove through some small mining towns. We both decided that we're really glad that we don't live in a small mining town.
This was a huge mine that we saw just outside of Kearny. Several entire mountains were just completely changed by the mining.