Good Times in Tombstone

My friend Jessica and I decided to take a random roadtrip to somewhere in Arizona together. Since it was still snowy, and neither of us can really drive in the snow, we ended up driving south to Tombstone. Along the way, we stopped off at the ostrich ranch near Picacho Peak. There, you pay $5 and get feed for ostrich, deer, and lorikeets. You can feed the ostrich and deer by hand, but the ostrich were far too excited about the feed and were very aggresive and scary. The lorikeets were very beautiful birds, and they like to fly up and land on you and make new nests in your hair. I would highly suggest making this stop if you have to make the trip to Tucson.

Tombstone was neat, but it was more of a touristy showy place, and not historically enriching like I had hoped. I did sit down at a saloon for some lunch and a drink though, just like the cowboys must have done back in the day. After a quick stop in Tucson on the way home for dinner with Jay and to visit our friend Jon, it was home sweet home.

Family Night Fun

I've always wanted to be one of those cute families that get together and hang out and play games. When Mom mentioned that she'd enjoy a few games that we could all maybe play together, I, of course, jumped right on that and bought a few family friendly games as Christmas gifts for her. After going out to dinner to celebrate Dad's birthday, we brought out the Mexican Train domino game. After being more confused by the rules than not, and having several debates on how to interpret the rules...we gave up on that dream and moved on to an old classic, Monopoly.

It was good times all around, I think. Hopefully, we can all do it again sometime, and I hope by then I have figured out exactly how to play the Mexican train. We wrapped up the night by playing the 'stuff-on-my-cat' game. Scruffy was pretty good at it.