Earth Day in Tucson

We planned a trip down to Tucson to stay at our timeshare for a night. Its a 90 min drive south so makes for a quick and easy stay-cation. We swam and watched movies Friday night and Saturday morning and then went out on a couple adventures. Our first was to BIOSPHERE 2. You probably don't know what this is, but google it. Basically, Biosphere 1 is the earth. Biosphere 2 is the earth-like environment scientists created to see if humans could ever live on Mars. It looks like a gigantic greenhouse but inside is a rain forest, a desert, an ocean with real coral, fish and waves (thanks to a wave machine). They have two "lungs" that adjust the oxygen and pressure because the whole building was intended to be closed and airtight for like two years while scientists lived inside. That's my summary of the place, anyway! It is interesting let's just say that. And we had a good time exploring, seeing the different environments, and feeling the temperatures of the different climates. What a way to spend earth day (not that it was planned)!

We then we continued our earth day celebration with a visit to the Pima Air and Space Museum. This was the stop Tyler was looking forward to. All the old planes get a guy every time. Plus the kids saw the Wright Brother's airplane replica which Ashley was excited about since they just learned about that in school, they had a chance to play in moon sand and even stand on the moon for a photo! ... at this point my feet began to ache.

So we got of exercise by walking all day, learned a lot about the earth and solar system, and Claire worked up quite a thirst. Cute girl.