Yuma Territorial Prison
Yesterday we didn't do anything too exciting, except for shopping and going to dinner. Today we planned to go to Mexico..everyone was comparing their terrible passport pictures, and when I went to show mine..my passport wasn't in my bag!! I must have taken it out at home for whatever reason and forgot to put it back in..I felt so dumb I hadn't checked before I left home! Everyone didn't want to go without me, but I told them to anyway (and get me a shirt), I didn't want my mistake to stop everyone else from going! (They only wanted to go for a couple hours anyway.) I hung out at the B&B and when they got back, mom said I wouldn't have liked it..everyone was in your face selling stuff (especially if you looked interested) and even followed mom begging her to buy stuff. Yikes, no thanks, that sounds so stressful! She got me a shirt, but had to keep haggling to get a reasonable price. I'm glad I didn't miss much lol (Jo had to stay overnight in Mexico because the border closes at 2, and the dentist would have been able to work on him longer without worrying about having to cross the border in time)
After that mom and I finally found a geocache (hard when you're busy and the only cachers in the group lol) and went to the Yuma Territorial Prison museum. It was interesting, though weird to think about who was in all those cells years ago (it opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909). The women imprisoned there were QUITE interesting lol, like the one who "stabbed her unfaithful lover, then cut open his chest, pulled out his heart, and threw the bloody mass at his face." OMG lol. There was the "Dark Cell," where prisoners were placed in a cage in solitary confinement, with no bathroom facilities or anything..it still smelled weird in there!! When Ryan turned his phone's flashlight on, we saw a few bats flying around and hanging from the ceiling! I thought it was cool they used to have a library with 2,000 books! The prison is supposed to be haunted too, but I didn't see any ghosts. :P After that we went to Barnes and Noble for a bit (why not :P)..amazingly, they had a copy of The Worst Journey in the World!! I already have that edition, but I was still very pleased (I've never seen a copy of it at the Fairbanks Barnes and Noble). I wrote a short note saying how much the book changed my life and stuff at put it in the book, maybe it'll inspire someone to read it! Then we went back to the B&B, had dinner, and played more Betrayal haha
We were originally going to stay another night at the B&B tomorrow, but our flight back to Alaska leaves at 7 something, and we'd have to get up at 3 something to make the flight. NONE of us wanted to do that, so we're going to drive back to Phoenix tomorrow after Jo gets done at the dentist. We'll still have to get up early, but we'll get a couple more hours' sleep at least. :P I'll miss the awesome four-poster bed lol, I must have one!! :P
One of the cell blocks..it was pretty warm today, and the iron doors were painful to touch!! I can't imagine being in there in the heat of the summer O_o
Let me out!! This was the cage people were kept in in the Dark Cell..the darkness would have been bad enough *shudders*
The desert landscape and the Colorado River. Cool bridge is cool!
13. Is there someone you pretend to like but you really don't like? Hmm..I suppose so..
14. Have you ever raked leaves, and then played in them? I've raked leaves, but I'm not sure if I've played in them..maybe as a kid lol
After that mom and I finally found a geocache (hard when you're busy and the only cachers in the group lol) and went to the Yuma Territorial Prison museum. It was interesting, though weird to think about who was in all those cells years ago (it opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909). The women imprisoned there were QUITE interesting lol, like the one who "stabbed her unfaithful lover, then cut open his chest, pulled out his heart, and threw the bloody mass at his face." OMG lol. There was the "Dark Cell," where prisoners were placed in a cage in solitary confinement, with no bathroom facilities or anything..it still smelled weird in there!! When Ryan turned his phone's flashlight on, we saw a few bats flying around and hanging from the ceiling! I thought it was cool they used to have a library with 2,000 books! The prison is supposed to be haunted too, but I didn't see any ghosts. :P After that we went to Barnes and Noble for a bit (why not :P)..amazingly, they had a copy of The Worst Journey in the World!! I already have that edition, but I was still very pleased (I've never seen a copy of it at the Fairbanks Barnes and Noble). I wrote a short note saying how much the book changed my life and stuff at put it in the book, maybe it'll inspire someone to read it! Then we went back to the B&B, had dinner, and played more Betrayal haha
We were originally going to stay another night at the B&B tomorrow, but our flight back to Alaska leaves at 7 something, and we'd have to get up at 3 something to make the flight. NONE of us wanted to do that, so we're going to drive back to Phoenix tomorrow after Jo gets done at the dentist. We'll still have to get up early, but we'll get a couple more hours' sleep at least. :P I'll miss the awesome four-poster bed lol, I must have one!! :P
One of the cell blocks..it was pretty warm today, and the iron doors were painful to touch!! I can't imagine being in there in the heat of the summer O_o
Let me out!! This was the cage people were kept in in the Dark Cell..the darkness would have been bad enough *shudders*
The desert landscape and the Colorado River. Cool bridge is cool!
13. Is there someone you pretend to like but you really don't like? Hmm..I suppose so..
14. Have you ever raked leaves, and then played in them? I've raked leaves, but I'm not sure if I've played in them..maybe as a kid lol