Sunday, April 7, 2013

yuma/Visit @ TJ's 4/7

Sunday 4/7
After Brunch, headed over to TJ's house for a nice visit.

andy, derick, marie

TJ's front yard

Barrel catcus

Yuma/Brunch 4/7

** sunday 4/7
After our trip to Graffiti hill we headed to the Garden Cafe in old town yuma.  Met friends there for a nice brunch.   After brunch, stopped and with visit Les (TJ) . Shopping at Wal-mart then to Bob/Derick place to watch a movie  "the Queen".







yuma/Graffiti hill 4/7

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Graffiti Hills East of Yuma, AZ on the California side of the Colorado River is a unique area of rock graffiti with thousands of rock messages. Dirt roads do not require 4 Wheel drive.
We drove out here about 9am before it got hot. Fun walking around.


marie

andy

me






we created our own graffiti rock




geocache

Picahco canal

Saturday, April 6, 2013

yuma/Quartermaster 4/6

saturday 4/7  afternoon
Downtown Yuma
Went to the Quartermaster Park.  Lots of history here.  Hard to believe that padle wheel boats used to stop here when the Col River was here.










geocache: dropping some of my travel bugs


yuma/ center-world 4/6

Saturday  4/6/13
friday 4/5
Left for yuma after work for the 5 1/2 hr drive.
saturday
After breakfast we, Marie, Andy & I headed to Museum of History in Granite also known as the Center of the World.  The location is off of hwy 8 about 10mi west of Yuma.
Met our tour guide. She gave us some info and watched a video.  Then a walked to the Hill of Prayer. Ate  our lunch there.  We got to meet the owner.  Fascinating man.  Down the road was geocache that we found before returning to yuma.
More info can be found at www.parafame.org



sun dial in yard



center of the earth

Marie

andy

Me

















Having lunch

the original stair case from the Eiffel tower France

geocache