Carefree

 Someone was selling furniture with pieces of blue turquoise stone in them! They were really cool, and probably really expensive. 

 A Gila monster slide.

 Lauren on the Gila monster slide.

 A waterfall at the place - can you see the stepping stones across and sundial in the distance?

 Under the spouting waterfall thingy.

 The part of the sundial that I could get a picture of - it goes 62 feet into the air!

My dad in a wig that Hannah got from a garage sale and Lauren's sunglasses.

For breakfast this morning, my dad, my grandpa, Lauren and I went to this place called Carefree, and ate breakfast at the Black Mountain Coffee Shop, where we go every year. My mom, my grandma, Hannah, and our cousin Denise went to garage sales. (Denise is married to my dad's cousin - she has a son in high school.) Then we walk around a little bit, and they have a huge sundial and a cool waterfall. But we have always went earlier than we did this year, and this time, they were having a huge festival with chocolate and art and jewelry and even some furniture. Down the road, there was also a rodeo going on. Here are some pics, one that I managed to get.

Greasewood Flats

Tonight we went to a place called Greasewood Flats with the rest of our family that lives in Arizona. (8 others, not including us or my grandparents.) Greasewood Flats is basically a huge stretch of land covered in gravel with a bunch of rusty junk sitting around, and clumps of picnic tables by a stage, a dance floor, and there was a big kitchen-bar area behind it. There was one room with dollar bill covering the walls and ceilings, and the people who "donate" them write a message on them - along with everything else there, trees, bathroom stalls, walls, tables, etc. There were a ton of people who rode motorcycles there, and there was even a tattoo tent, which Hannah and Lauren got a kick out of. Their food was pretty good, and their burgers, I mean their buns, were huge. Hannah's opinion on the place - "I don't like it. There was smoking, tattoos, motorcycles, etc." (Hannah is addicted to putting etc. on the end of everything.) Leave it up to Hannah to state the truth! Lauren's opinion on a bunch of things - "Smoking is bad for you, motorcycles are dangerous, and tattoos are just wrong." That basically sums up the people and things about them there! My evening was quite interesting!

Baby Shower

 The regular-sized tortoise.

 The huge tortoise.

 Turtles have really sharp mouths!

 They kept the big turtle locked up because he would eat all of the flowers.

 The miniature horse, Micky. He ate that food the entire time.

 The regular-sized horse.

 A few of the roosters they had.

 A baby carriage made out of a watermelon. Don't you like the baby orange and it's pacifier?

 A fountain made out of 206 million year old petrified wood.

 A pretty waterfall.

A turtle they had in the bottom of the pool.

On the first day we got to Arizona, we had a baby shower for my mom's cousin. The house that they had it at had a pool, an awesome shelter thing, two horses-- a regular sized one and a miniature one, two turtles-African tortoises, I think--a regular sized one and a HUGE one, and like ten roosters, with four dogs on top of that. They had basically everything. After that, we went to my grandma's sister's house. They had an awesome pool area, with two VERY modest statues of famous ancient Greek or Roman legends that were the first things that you saw when you walked into the backyard. Hannah and Lauren enjoyed giving them clothes from their towels! Here are some pics!

Tombstone Pictures

 "Here lies Lester Moore four slugs from a 44 no less no more."

 "Here lies George Johnson hanged by mistake 1882 he was right we were wrong but we strung him up and now he's gone."

 "Tom McLaury killed Oct. 26 1881." "Billy Clanton Tom McLaury Frank McLaury Murdered on the streets of Tombstone 1881."

 "Frank McLaury killed Oct. 26, 1881."

 "Unknown 1882 found in abandoned mine."

 Billy Clanton killed Oct.26, 1881."

 "Eva Waters age 3 months." How sad!

 This is a fraction of the cemetery...there were a lot of people from China here, and about half of the people's tombstones say 'Unknown.'

"John Heath taken from Country Jail and LYNCHED by Bristee Mak in Tombstone Feb. 22, 1884."

 "Dutch Annie 1883." Dutch Annie was a famous outlaw, I think. I know that she was considered 'bad.'

 The people who worked at the newspaper office had to find each separate letter and space and then put them into the sheet, then they would rub ink all over it, and put it into a huge press and they would press the ink onto the paper. Thank goodness for computers!

 A hollow in the ceiling of the cave.

 This amazing rock is clear enough so light can travel through it and it kind of glows.

 A place in the mine where I have no intention of going anytime soon.

 A setting for the comedy gun show.

A picture out of the car window on the way home...isn't it pretty?

Pool

 Me in a pink tube think...Hannah later tipped me over.

 Hannah playing "water polo," she found a noodle with a horse head on the top of it and she took another noodle and was hitting the beach ball and riding on the horse noodle and riding around the pool and splashing EVERYONE...especially me, while I was just floating around minding my own business.

 Lauren in a basketball hoop.

Hannah and Lauren "washing their hair."

Tombstone

Today, we went to an old west town called Tombstone - "A town too tough to die!" It's a world-famous small town and it was built in the 1880's. It's most famous "moment" was the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (That's exactly what you want to name your corral, right?). Wyatt Earp and his two brothers, I think that one of them was named Morgan, (I forgot the other) and their friend Doc Holliday shot a few outlaws named Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and his brother Tom. My dad and Grandpa watched the reenactment of the shooting at the O.K. Corral, but we took a carriage ride around Tombstone, toured the mines, and watched a comedy gunfight. (It was hilarious, when one of the not-so-bright guys was asked to cover the street while the other guy was trying to rob the bank, he faced his gun towards the street and told it to stay put.) It did take 3 hours each way to get there, but it was definitely worth it. Hannah and Lauren like how the sidewalks were wooden  boards and how they were covered, and it was a surprisingly large town. It was also interesting how the mines stretched out under the entire city and went about 300 feet into the ground. (!) Pictures to follow tomorrow - I don't have much time until I go to bed and I need more time to figure out how to put the pictures from my iPod to the computer. Good night!

My New Blog

Hi! My name is Megan Anderson, but I think that the people who will (hopefully) read this already know that. I am 11 years old, but my golden birthday is in 15 days. I think that you already know that too. I have two younger sisters, Hannah and Lauren. I have two parents, Kirk and Cathy. My sisters are 10 and 8, and my parents are both 41. I also have a doggy named Augie! I am on Spring Break in Arizona, and I have wanted to have a blog for a long time now, ever since my best friends, Samantha and MaKaela Foerderer, showed me theirs. I figured that there's hardly a better time to have a blog then on vacation, so I asked my mom and she said go for it. Sorry, I know that my blog is pretty standard, but I haven't quite figured out all of the tricks yet. Good night!