Karen's trip

My awesome sister came to visit this week. We did so much, I hardly know how to blog about it all. The first day, we mostly hung around in Tucson. We made a big dinner and played at home. The next day, we went to Mexico and walked around. We went to a casino (We lost big). We drove into the desert to Gunsight Pass looking for the ghost town, Helvetia. We never made it to the town, but we did have a lot of fun trying to get there. We drove through huge copper deposits that had chunks of turquoise and collected lots of beautiful pieces. We also think we might have seen a UFO. Well, actually, we definitely did. There was a white, shiny object in the sky. It was flying, and it was unidentified (at least by us). weird, huh? Then I made Karen come to school with me and we walked around my office. It's in the stadium, so we walked out onto the field just for fun. Today we went to a spring training game and watched the Colorado Rockies beat the Angels. The day started out very cloudy, but it was warm (hot) and sunny by the end of the game and now we're all very full of sunshine and very tired. I think tonight we'll have a bonfire, and then we have to say goodbye to Karen. So sad. Maybe we can sabotage her alarm clock so she misses her flight? Maybe she could just stay!
It's hard living so far away from my family, but I love when they come to visit. They remind me that Tucson's not so bad and that no one is really more than a plane ride away from each other.