Visitor

Ross's sister Lee, who also has a
place in Sun Life, is in town for a
couple of weeks. Great to have her
here!

Centipede

After attending one of Ranger B's brown bag lunch talks yesterday (the topic was desert tortoises) we spent a few minutes looking at some of the critters in the visitor center. Here's one of them, a centipede. This one is probably 6" - 8" long. Like most things that live in the desert it's poisonous. We're not sure which end is the head.

	The centipede at the Usery Park visitor center.
	A closer view of the centipede.

Desert Discovery

Check out our desert discovery.

Motorcycle

We've always wanted a motorcycle. Well, maybe Ross has. Now our dreams have come true! Check out our new motorcycle:




Pretty cool, huh? And it was free! Ross found it just sitting on the side of the road while we were out biking today.




Well, it's a motorcycle, isn't it???? :-)

Yikes!

Ross's backpack ate Jake!!
Luckily it threw him up later.

New Phone

Karen was in need of a new
"GoPhone" (a pay as you go phone)
so we shopped around and found this
Samsung phone on close out at Best
Buy. It was $30 but came with $50 of
time! Basically they paid us $20 to
take the phone.

Snake Video

Today we went to Usery Park for one of Ranger B's brown bag lunch talks. The talks are now being held in the park's new visitor center. After the talk (today's was "All About Our Sonoran Desert") we visited with some of the animals on display. Not only was this rattlesnake in a glass cage but the cage was locked in a room so there were 2 panes of glass between the snake and us. Here's a video of the rattlesnake.

NOTE: If you're squeamish about snakes you might want to skip this one!