Good goes to Great.

Last weekend Dustin and I went out drinking on Friday. We went to the bar we bounce at, Dillon's, then we went to the local strip bar, Dusk Till Dawn.

Saturday we went out to Bisbee, which was awesome. We had a tour scheduled at the Queen Mine. It's really involved. You have to put on a hard hat and rain coat and they give you a flashlight. then you get on a little train, and go into the mine. It's one of the world's most successful copper mines, producing over 8 billion pounds of copper until it closed in 1975. So in we go, and at 1400 feet inside, you go into the Southwest mine, and they show you how everything works, from drilling, to blasting to hauling. Interestingly, when they brought mules down to haul the stuff out, the mules stayed in underground stables, but they all died blind. Then they bring you into a large room where you can see all the ore deposits. Then you come back out. It's really an awesome tour, and we both really enjoyed it.

We left the tour and went to the Old Bisbee Brewing Company. They had some really good beers. A belgian whitbier, a good pale ale, and their signature Copper City Ale. They also sell a 64 ounce jug that you can fill with beer to go. Dustin got one, we drank it that night. While we were at the brewery, we met some locals who told us a little about the city, including a water fall that only flows during this time of year just outside of downtown. So, naturally, we went to check that out.

We got there, and it was beautiful. We decided to head up the "trail" to the top. Well, the trail lasts about 100 feet, then you are basically rock climbing. But we did it anyway. We got higher and higher until we reached a point where shoes were doing us no good. So we took them off. There was a point that was not as easy to climb. I lost my footing, and fell about 25 feet. But I caught myself, and kept going. We got to a point where we couldn't go much higher, and enjoyed the view until Dustin realized the sun has started going down, and it was going to be a bitch to get back down. So we found our shoes, and started back down. The rocks were loose in spots, I missed one, and feel into the rock and into the water. That one gave me a mean bruise on my knee. But I made it back down. Everything on both of us was wet. We were, um, not at all prepared to climb it, but we made the best of it. So went back into the city to find the people that told us about it, and were unsuccessful, but we did notice a neat little nightlife in Bisbee. And that's how a random trip to Bisbee for a mine tour turned into an awesome adventure.