Monday, January 10, 2011

U of A, Sushi, and the National Championship!

We began our day with another great continental breakfast at the La Quinta resort. Once our tummies were filled to the brim and we were fueled up for the day we embarked on our journey to the University of Arizona. Our first stop was the on campus museum which had 4 exhibits: Mexican artifacts, mammoth excavation, Pottery, and South Western Native Americans. I found the Mexican artifacts to be the most intriguing because of all of the muskets and rifles they had. The Native American exhibit opened my eyes to many of the hardships they went through due to european settlers. I especially thought the Yaqui tribe's story of a "talking tree" whom prophesied the coming of Christianity, baptism, wars, famine, and even drug use was incredible because all of those things happened and effected the Native Americans of this era. 

After the museum a few of us stayed on campus and went to Fuku Sushi, a sushi restaurant on the U of A "strip". this was my first time having sushi from a restaurant and I was pleasantly surprised. As Nick would say "I took a gamble and went with the Las Vegas Roll", it was amazing! After shopping around a bit on the strip, we went exploring on the campus.



We circled the Wildcat Stadium (which was huge) and then made our way to the Optics building. on the roof I took a great picture of the stadium which I have attached. we didn't get to see much of the optics building because many of the rooms were in use but Arion said we may be able to tour it later in the trip. We then got picked up by our amazing chauffeur Melissa and went to dinner at the mall. This brings us to my current situation, watching the National Championship.

Auburn is beating Oregon 19-11 (rare score for a football game). Lets go DUCKS!!

2 comments:

  1. I would have liked to see the Optics building. I'm glad we have a chance to return there to see it; hopefully it pans out.

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  2. The sushi was great everyone missed out. The optics building was the coolest building that we saw on the campus.

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