Happy New Year!

We rang in the new year with style- being Arizona tourists! We both had Dec 31 and Jan 1 off work, so took a mini-vacation to Southeastern Arizona. We ran a few errands before heading out to Fort Huachuca - Charles' current work location. We saw Charles' job site, then toured the Army Intelligence Museum on base and saw all sorts of contraptions for hiding secret information, decoding devices and interesting exhibits. My favorite item was a video camera made to look like a tree limb and hid in a forest.

The two of us at the Army Intelligence Museum


My grandpa served in the Counterintelligence Corps, so I thought this display was interesting


We also toured the Fort Huachuca Museum which had a lot of information about the Buffalo Soldiers. Unfortunately our pictures got deleted from our camera for that museum. New Year's Eve we ate a gigantic dinner at a local restaurant, watched a football bowl game and fell asleep. We set the alarm for 11:50 pm and woke up in time to watch the ball drop on t.v. in Times Square.

New Year's Day we drove another 25 miles to a small mining town called Bisbee. The homes and streets were so fun to look at.

Part of the town of Bisbee


Charles on the streets of Bisbee


We walked around the Copper Queen Hotel and took a fascinating tour of the Copper Queen Mine. It was a very fun New Year's trip!

In our miner's gear


Charles waiting for the tour to begin


Into the mine we go!


A bicycle on tracks used by the shift boss to quickly move through the mine


A demonstration on how the dynamite was put into the mine walls