The Extra Suprise week!

So we came home from the Grand Canyon on Monday, and I was supposed to head back on the Wednesday, but in a stunning change of plans, I would spend October 8-14 in Arizona and fly back to LA on the 15th.

So during the week we did some fun stuff, Tiffiny showed me around ASU, which is like its own miniature city (and it has multiple campuses!). It even has a bus specifically to drive around the area, which has shops that are a part of it (including I think every fast food chain that exists here)

I went to the Arizona Mills mall, which was also big and greeted you as you walked in the door with an electronic voice. I had a New York style hot dog (sausages in bread are better), and learnt that the Rainforest Cafe looks cool despite its cheesiness, but is way too expensive to eat at.

I went with Amanda to one of her jewellery making classes at her university, and walked around the area too... Which was also pretty fun.

On Friday we even went with Lauren to see Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which was a great movie despite the fact I haven't seen the first one.

But the main reason I was sticking around in Arizona for another week was what we did on Saturday: We went to Rawhide.

It was like a smaller, Cowboy version of Sovereign Hill without as many people in costume. During the day it was aimed more at younger kids, but after dark, they put up their Halloween theme and became "Doom Town"... It was pretty awesome.

The first show we saw was this thing on the Lone Ranger, where the guy basically retold the story of the Lone Ranger and Tonto, showed off some gun spinning tricks and fired a very loud gun to do things like pop balloons inside. He was a little annoying... But... yeah...
After that we walked around and looked at all the expensive shops, then waited an age in line to get ice cream, because some stupid volunteer Girl Scout person decided to make more orders while she was paying.
The next show was announced by a gun fight in the streets, and was the story of how Billy the Kid came to a town, shot some bad guys and... Left. Billy the Kid, we agreed though, was rather cute.
We had some greasy burgers for dinner... And then DOOMTOWN!

There was a haunted train which was fun because it was really for kiddies and their parents. But that was OK. There was another show on the same set as the Billy the Kid one, it was a little tongue in cheek, but still pretty funny and cool with its pyrotechnics. While we were waiting for it to start, we mucked around with the entertainers... Two of whom chased Tiffiny when she ran away from a guy dressed as an undertaker.

After that came the stuff that wasn't for kids under 10. There was a show where they disected 'dead' people and blood and guts fell out before the corpses started talking (though us three seemed to be the only ones in the audience who found the sense of humour that went with it funny, especially with the Monty Python jokes he threw in...), and of course, the main event... A Haunted House. It would have been scary if it weren't for the fact that we were put with three women who SCREAMED HYSTERICALLY the whole way through, and so instead of screaming, the three of us cracked up laughing the whole time.

Sunday was spent packing, and a bit of shopping. But I had a good time :)