Exploring Tubac

Yesterday, we took a little day road trip south on I-19 to Tubac, Arizona. It is an art type community that we had always wanted to see. Our original plan was to go to the Biosphere but we discovered that they were only talking about finding and killing Buffalo grass. Not exactly something we wanted to pay $20/person to learn about. Tubac is about 20 minutes from Nogales and looks like a slightly higher class Nogales. Chad told me that in reading up on it he learned that from the time it was started it was a booming city, then a ghost town, then a booming city again, then a ghost town again and now a booming city. Tubac was the first english settlement in Arizona and published the first newspaper in Arizona. Now it is an expensive place to live but far away from anything and everything. There are several small streets of shops and art galleries containing everything from high end art and pottery and art work from Mexico to birdhouses made out of old boots and license plates. It was a nice day to walk the shops and explore the merchandise.

This is a picture of me and Cole. The weird thing behind me is part of a $5,000 statue on display at Galleria Tubac.

Of course, Chad had to have his picture taken with this giant skull made of cement and pottery pieces. He read about it on line and had to find it. Apparently, it is a notable part of the Tubac experience.

This is a Hornet. It is the same kind of car as Doc Hudson from the movie, Cars. Grant was quite excited about it when I pointed it out to him. Grant is on the verge of obsession with Cars right now. He presently owns two Lightning McQueens, Doc, Sheriff, Guido, Luigi, Mack, Chick Hicks, The King, Snot Rod and Boost. He earns them for doing jobs that he's not great at like staying in bed when put to bed, helping get dressed and going potty by himself. He has to earn a certain number of stickers for each job to get the cars. He just earned Boost yesterday for earning enough potty stickers and got Snot Rod this morning for finally earning 5 stay in bed stickers (it took about 2 weeks to accomplish this feat).

Below is Grant climbing around a fountain outside of Galleria Tubac. Grant had a great time finding and looking at all of the neat and creative fountains throughout Tubac. There were many. This particular fountain was surrounded by large river rocks and I told Grant several times not to climb up the rocks for fear he would fall into the fountain. The series of pictures below show just what a good listener our little boy truly is.