Life in the White House...: The Biosphere and Sonoran Desert Museum

Hey Everyone! In the past few days we've to the Biosphere and to The Sonoran Desert Museum here in Tucson. The Biosphere was a little disappointing to me. The neatest part of it was the actual building. Architechurally it was impressive. The Biosphere was built about thirty years ago by a private investor. It was for research on how plant life and water worked together to help us survive. Very complicated stuff. Different schools still do research here and a lot of it ! There was all different climates within one building and they had the ability to change the climate at a moments notice. Each climate zone had its on eco system. So basically everyone there really liked the rain forest eco system. I really found this funny because it reminded me of our back yard! Lots of humidity and sweat! Lots of nice green plants everywhere....What was so cool about this? LOL

Now I will move on to our adventure at the Sonoran Desert Museum. This was cool. It was actually just a giant zoo with animals from this area. We went from 7 to 10 at Night! Great time to do anything in Arizona! Once the sun starts to go down the temps drop and the wind gently blows....it feels great! A lot of the animals we saw started long before we got to the zoo! On the winding road up the mountain to the Museum. As we were riding along we came across three wild hogs grazing on the side of the road. On that same road coming out we saw a Momma dear (as peighton calls them) lots of fat mice, and some sort of strange looking squirrel! Needless to say we drove slowly!

At the zoo there was mountain lions, black bears, scorpions, owls, bats, Mexican wolves....you name it and it was there! We all had a great time but Brinson really loved this! We will probably make another trip before we leave. The scenery was unbelievable here. We were basically at the top of a mountain and the sun was setting when we arrived. It was Gorgeous!