We spent one morning in downtown Tucson visiting the January 8th memorial site and Tucson Visitor Center. The memorial is located in front of the historic Pima County Courthouse which had been closed for many years and just re-opened last November after multi-million-dollar improvements.
This permanent memorial was dedicated Jan. 8, 2018. It commemorates the sad event from 7 years earlier where 6 people were killed and U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords was seriously injured during her meet and greet event.
There is a beautiful garden, a memorial wall and reflecting pool. The wall is covered with all types of symbols, each having a special meaning to all six victims. Don's cousin John Eaton, Don, Jerry and Sandy took a few moments by the shallow pool.
Christina-Taylor Green was only 9 years old, making her the youngest victim.
Behind Jerry and Sandy is Allen Forbes, a cousin from Reno. He was also camping at Catalina with our group. Doris and Sandy still have their masks on since part of our time was spent at the Tucson Visitor Center located on the ground floor of the courthouse.
Our last side trip was to a miniature train museum located in the Flowing Wells area of Tucson where Don, Doris, Sandy and I grew up. It contained all the different sizes of toy trains, some of them dating back to the 1940's,
One thing that I have never seen before in a miniature train set up are mobile homes! Usually it's regular buildings and houses. Do you see them?
I think we all got a chuckle of the sign by the church. It read: Lost Souls Community Church. Cremation is your last chance for a smoking hot body!
The creator of this had a good imagination and a sense of humor. It was the Inter-galactic Party Bus. If you pushed the button in front of the display the yellow M & M guy went up and down. The flying saucer was also lit up. It doesn't take much to entertain us old folks.😏😉 LOL
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