Matt and I were trying to make plans for something to do on President's Day. After tossing around a few ideas, we decided to spend the day in Tucson, which is just about 2 hrs south of us. Matt made a quick call to find a hotel we could stay at Sunday night (Valentine's day, so romantic!) so we didn't have to get up crazy early or have driving time cut into our day.
We had heard good things about the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum and wanted to check it out. We practically spent the entire day there!!
There is a little walk-in hummingbird aviary with all different types of hummingbirds just speeding around, all over the place! Birds are such fascinating creatures!
We saw this guy, a roadrunner, making his way along the path
Everyone wanted to get in the turtle shell!
This beaver was a playful guy!
We ALL squeezed into a photo booth to take pictures!!
That was interesting but everyone's face is in the pictures!
Pretty cactus! Brooklyn even noticed this heart-shaped prickly pear!
Don't you think Blake & Gavin make pretty cute vultures??
(Mountain) Lions & Bears, oh my!
On our way home, we stopped by the Tucson temple site, which is under construction. The temple was announced by President Monson during General Conference in October 2012. Since Matt works in Tucson once a month or so, he has been taking pictures each time but it was fun for our whole family to see it. Such excitement when you witness another temple in progress! Makes me contemplate how much really goes into the selection of the site and the design of the temple. The Tucson temple will be unique with a dome-style structure to fit in with the architecture of the Sonoran desert in which it rests. At first glance, it looks like there is a cross on top of the temple, but that's actually the lightning rod fixture that the angel Moroni will sit atop. ;)
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