The Adventures of Sock Monkey Episode 3: To Tucson and Beyond! Day 2

   Now, this is for July 28th so I'm not that behind. I think. On with the adventures of Sock Monkey! 

   We got up 8 AM and after eating some breakfast and packing our bags, drove off towards the Titan II Missile Museum. And if you want to know, there is only one really big missile and it is huge. And I mean huge. See below.

This is where the missile is stored...

...and this is the missile.

Yeah. We then took a tour down into the control room, after an introductory video, through multiple security measures (see below) and past a lot of gear (see below again) and finally to the main room in which I got the seat and became the Missile Combat Crew Commander for the tour. Which meant that I got to demonstrate a launch of the missile. Fun. See pictures below.

Fun fact: This "blast door" weighs 6000 lbs. And a ten year old kid could probably open this door.

Don't worry, we'll find you a moon suit that fits...

   

Reporting for duty, Missile Combat Crew Commander Sock Monkey.

Hmmm...I wonder what this red button does? *press* 

After the Missile Museum, we drive to Sabino Canyon. It's not with the NPS but it's in the National Forest and has a badge that you can earn but you have to mail the booklet back. Anyway... we took a "shuttle" all the way to the end of the road, then drive all the way back. It would have been much better in the winter so, please, go when it's cooler. It's still at least 95 degrees, even when it's cloudy.

Sabino Canyon. It's all I have to say.

I also have another picture that you should check out on "If 'owlicious' Was A Word" because it has an owl. Surprise. After picking up some souvenirs, we headed back to our hotel after a relatively relaxing day. I finally got slightly better at ping pong and here's the score. Mom:107  Me:14. Hey, I'm getting better! Afterwards, we left the recreation center and literally had just started walking back to our hotel when my mom and I saw something that we won't forget for a really long time. There was a pack of collared peccary, or javelinas, seven of them, standing outside the recreation center. If we had decided to play just a few more games of ping pong, we would of ran into them on our way out and javelinas aren't known as the friendly type. It was too dark to get any good pictures so there won't be any pictures of that. And that just about sums up this blog post! Any questions, comments, ideas, or suggestions, you know the drill! I guess I'm done now so thanks for reading!