We are just back from a 'winner, winner, chicken dinner' at the park and then a game of trivia. Company at dinner was wonderful, and we met new people to the park from Michigan. Dinner, not so great, but this is the first meal that has been sponsored by the park which was 'sub-par'. Company always makes up for it. Trivia was fun. We were split up into 4 person teams, and there were probably ten teams. Thirty questions later, and MY team won. What a bunch of questions. Did you know that Hallie Berry was the first black female to win an Academy award for best actress in the Monster Ball? I don't even recall that movie. It was fun, oh, and I made $5.00. Its fun.
This morning Russ moved another couples' fifth wheel from one site to another. They have decided to keep their camper here year round with the intention of purchasing a park model and making this their 'permanent' winter home. It was entertaining, as it brought out a huge crowd. We are very easily humored.
Yesterday, we went to Biosphere II. Not sure if you remember it or not, but 8 people lived in this scientific experiment, where the ocean, the desert, farm land, mangrove trees, etc, were contained under huge glass domes, for two years. This was in the early 80s, was proclaimed at that time to have failed. There is much more to it, but the plan was for groups to spend 2 years at a time there, but only one group stayed for 2 years. It was experiment that was hoped to prepare for life on other planets. I remember when it was going on, and was interested in going when we realized how close it was. By way of a 'flying crow', it wasn't very far from here, but there aren't many roads heading in that direction. The ride was well over and hour. The tour guide, a retired National Archive employee, was great. We thought he had been involved much longer than the five years he had been there. After the project 'failed', Columbia took over the site and then the University of Arizona. Fortunately for that, as if they had not taken charge of it, Disney would have. We found it amazing and glad we went. We have more research to do, as it was a very interesting project.
Also it worked out well, as we travelled in areas we would not have normally gone through.
Russ is going to download some pictures of the Biosphere II.
Sun is out each day and we are loving it. It does surprise me though, that as warm as it is during the day, the nights are really cool, and it is cold getting up in the morning. But it warms up quickly.
Thinking of you all as you shovel out the snow.........
Russ here,
if you are interested in learning more about the biosphere check out http://b2science.org .
the trip there was right thru the middle of the Sonoran dessert and so different from anything we have seen. Dad , I don't know if you have ever been there but you would want a privite tour as I know you would have tons of questions. they thought of everything!! they placed 5 inches of Stainless steel below the concrete floors so no contamination would leach thru and so that no oxygen would leach out. Such a great "starwars" plan and ideas. amazing!!! We wondered why it's called Biosphere 2 and found out that Biosphere 1 is our existing world. kind of neat.
