Slideshows

We have now uploaded a bunch of pictures and added slide shows for them. Feel free to watch the slide shows, or click on them to see the slide shows at a larger resolution.

The House

Here are some pictures of the house we are staying in. It is pretty old, and as I said, it was really dirty, but we have cleaned up the inside so it is pretty nice now. The outside of the house is pretty junky, but we will leave it that way.

First Night

The first night when we arrived in ---------------- we were in for a few surprises. The place was pretty dirty with dust and dead bugs everywhere. The most eventful surprise was what Tom saw crawling next to the couch that night. See for yourself:

This was of course after the centipede was long since dead. Elise wouldn't even look at it, and never saw the actual thing. She hasn't even seen this picture yet, but soon she will when she views this post. Needless to say we did some extensive cleaning, and finally after a full day of cleaning on Saturday the house is looking pretty good.

Trip to Arizona

Our trip down here to -------------- was pretty uneventful. Savannah and Olivia got a bit grumpy as was expected, but it wasn't too bad. On the way down we stopped at looked at Montezuma's Well and Montezuma's Castle. At Montezuma's Well we saw a stick bug. That was kind of neat since we hadn't seen one before.

We also saw a couple of Indian ruins at the well. Here are a couple of pictures of them, one on each side of the well, as well as a picture of the well.

After going to Montezuma's Well we went to Montezuma's Castle. Here is a mockup model of what the inside of the castle would have looked like back in its prime.

Here is Savannah in front of the castle and shows what it looks like now.

First Post

Well, we now have a blog. We'll see how often we post to it. We just got down to Arizona where we will probably be until just before Christmas. We are down here for Tom to do some work automating a haul truck in an open pit mine. He really enjoys the work.