| On the way to the Desert Museum, we stopped at Gates Pass | Flynn, Guinness, and Pete walked up to the lookout hut | Where they looked out over the valley west of the pass (Old Tucson is hiding behind Flynn and Guinness) | The mountains are actually an old caldera | This is as far as Debra felt comfortable hiking up | Granny Dani standing by the truck |
| A viewpoint by the parking area, with Old Tucson in the background | In the Desert Museum itself, there was a nice aviary | Guinness walking along with his stamp booklet | There are nearly 40 different species of birds represented | Of course, the names of them all escape me at the moment | All over the place, they had these stamp centers where the kids could match the stamp to the appropriate page in their booklet |
| Guinness was in an especially skippy mood that day | The paths were, of course, bordered by all sorts of desert vegetation | The Bighorn Sheep at the Riparian Corridor display | A young ’un | A little older | Stopping to watch the river otter |
| Speak of the devil! | Stamping is fun! | On the move! | Guinness did eventually let everyone catch up :) | The fattest prairie dogs I’ve ever seen | Apparently, the first iteration of the display wasn’t secure below, and the prairie dogs got out |
| A mountain lion stretches after his nap | Then watches us carefully | Granny Dani, Peapod, Flynn, and Guinness | The kids also enjoyed the dinosaur dig…Flynn was very good at matching the bones to the pictures on the sign | Guinness and Peapod | Waiting patiently back at the entrance |
