I love Tombstone! Maybe it is because of Val Kilmer or maybe it is because my Dad made me watch Clint Eastwood Westerns when I was kid but when this movie came out I fell in love with a place I have never been. It may sound kind of crazy but I would have loved to live during this time, I loved the way people dressed and I have such a thing for a man in a black cowboy hat. Put me in one of those crazy dresses and I would have been the life of the party! I love to drink, swearing comes easy for me sometimes and I am scared of no one...I think I could have faired well in the Old West...plus Gold and Silver are my investment of choice right now!
I always loved the name Morgan, so Cait was going to be a Morgan Cait until we watched Tombstone for the 1000th time and they kept calling Morgan Earp "Morg" for short which made made me think well how awful will that be if people start shortening my daughter's name to that...so after that showing it officially became her middle name. When i told Cait this story in Tombstone...her reply was priceless "I am sure glad that you didn't name me after a boy"
I have never been the average girl so I apologize for this blog as most people might think I have fallen back in time when you get done reading this :-) but I sort of did...
Soooo I got the chance to take my whole family to Tombstone while we were in Arizona. It was everything I hoped for and sort of dreamed of. We started out at the Boothill Graveyard where they buried everyone who passed away in Tombstone during a certain time. Dead people scare me literally...but I found myself taking pictures of graves hoping to finds orbs in my pictures and telling the stories along the way with the kids. Cam got such a kick out of the gravestones and what they read.
On to the town that has been preserved over time in the middle of the desert. We stopped along the most famous saloons, and took the kids to a reenactment of the OK Corral and the actor that played Doc Holliday definitely was intriguing...maybe it's not a Kilmer thing but a Doc Holliday thing...so yeah I like the rough guy that smokes, drinks and plays pharaoh...that looks like he is going to die at any moment :-) Cait and Cam thought that the gunfight at the OK Corral was real so I spent about 5 minutes after it showing them that the actors did get up...Cam thought that this was the highlight of his trip.
The kids loved the town and all of the history along the way and so did my Dad. I have so many awesome memories with my Dad but this one goes to the top of the list as something him and I shared when I was young and I got to share with my kids. I highly recommend it but only if the late 1800's intrigue you...
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