hello bloggineers we are at spring hill
suites by marriott and today we'll show
you the fun things you can do in
prescott arizona
our first stop is heritage park zoo
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we're at the birds of prey section
oh and there's a letter for the frog
we're doing the scavenger hunt so
there's gonna be frogs hidden throughout
the zoo and each one has a letter and
once we get all six letters we
unscramble it the first frog is an s
now we're entering the reptile
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i'm kind of scared but boas aren't that
thing
there's a leopard gecko here it's in its
cable
it's a gila monster
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this cow turkey duck because
uh it has spots like a cow it's a duck
and its face looks like a turkey i never
saw a black vulture
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we found another frog and the letters
are
next we're going to enter the tarantula
grotto
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over here we have a guest star using
cockroaches
i really like this exhibit there's so
many creepy creatures such as the
tarantula up there there's cockroaches
and here the spider has made a bunch of
webs what is that happening
and now the animal that brother's been
waiting for the javelina this one
escaped from the cage
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we found another letter but there's no
frog but i'm guessing still a letter
i pretty sure the frog just jumped off
whoa whoa
this is the scariest animal i've seen
even though it's behind bars it really
it really looks like it wants to kill us
and there's a sign that says please
stand behind barriers like it has super
sharp teeth and it's opening its mouth
somewhere here is the american black
bear there's going to be a feeding later
this afternoon but unfortunately we
won't be here i actually wish we could
spend longer here because some of the
animals are so cool now we're at the
kiwanis corner and this might be a
petting zoo area
we're not going in since i want them to
eat happy or can't move but it's cool
that they have a petting zoo the animals
look so cute
this is a pot belly pig which looks like
javelina
or maybe javelinas look like pigs no
javelina
maybe they use it for me
we got all six letters and we cheated
using a scrambler app and it was
actually a very common animal we just
weren't thinking we're not going to tell
you the answer but that was fun and that
is the heritage park zoo my favorite
part was the tarantula room and also the
javelinas i like the indoor exhibits as
well as seeing unique animals that you
might not find at other zoos such as the
javelinas or whatever that one that
wanted to eat me was there's so many
enclosures even a petting zoo so you
could spend a good few hours here on to
the next attraction
now we are at fitbit museum
right now we're in the gallery of george
fippen a artist who lived in prescott in
eighth grade he gratuated not graduated
school so that he could farm and then he
became a painter this is a replica of
his studio and that painting is based on
the song ghost writers in the sky this
is the devil's heard because i think
that's part of the lyrics
and here's a painting of another song
that i've never heard of called meal
train he wanted to sell it to someone
for 12.50 meaning 1250 but they thought
he meant 12.50
and they still didn't buy it because
they wanted it for under 10.
this is one of my favorite paintings so
far because it's kind of funny so the
guy was riding his horse and they were
roping this cap to brand it and then the
calf called for the mom cow and the cow
got mad and the cow got mad and chased
him up a tree and that's why it's called
treat
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we're in a different gallery and this is
a replica of ray swanson's studio he did
a lot of paintings about native
americans including the hopi and navajo
tribes when we're at art class we we use
odorless turpinwood i don't think it's
the same brand though
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this is a rotating gallery and the
current artist bonnie casey is 91 years
old she lives in prescott and this is
one of her paintings and in the
background of this one is thumb butte
which is like a tall mountain thing we
were going to hike there later today but
now we're almost certainly not going to
because we're worn out
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we're in bill nebaker's sculpture
exhibit and this is a work in process
this is the clay model of a sculpture
and after that they use it to create a
cast and eventually molten bronze is
poured into the cast to make the actual
sculpture
and that is the fifth in dcm my favorite
painting was the ghost riders in the sky
that was so cool i like how there were
different sections for each of the local
artists with a lot of cool paintings and
sculptures my favorite painting was
treed the one where the cow was wanting
to attack the guy who climbed up the
tree
overall this was a very good art gallery
and we even learned history of some
folks in the area now on to our next
stop
now we're gonna play puzzle ride which
is a part escape room part scavenger
hunt and all fun the theme today is
pirate adventure we're gonna go on an
adventure today you gotta help me find
who stole my treasure this is the puzzle
you have to solve to prove yourselves
worthy you have 75 minutes to do it if
you get stuck and you need a hint to
just hand over a card and i'll give you
a hint as you can see the treasure chest
is locked okay and inside there are more
locked items so your first job is to get
the box open once you get it open you
got to figure out where we're going
there is a map in here to help you on
your way for anyone who's not local
find your location on the map tell me to
take you there and i will i will take
you to the wrong location and i won't
tell you it's wrong till we get there so
once we get to your locations you got to
get a lock open solve what's inside go
to your next location
any questions so i'm going to set the
timer and i'm going to lock it in this
little jail you guys have to get to your
final location and get the lock off the
jail to stop the timer to win you guys
got to find the key to get the lock open
it is hidden somewhere on the golf cart
okay
oh wait is it this
is this
no that's it i think this is the black
box this is like geocaching
all right here's the key
all right
and this is the inside of the box
there's a map of prescott thank goodness
because we don't know the area the hall
and it says pirates are sneaky you can
say there are crooks to find your first
clue go to the place that has is it book
everywhere on this map is a possible
location
library
library wait hold on but first we should
see everything else inside so there's a
pencil
there's a lock with a bag
here's a purse
a box
they all have different types of locks
flashlights
okay they're pretty much all locked
so we just have to maybe we should just
maybe we should just do this first so
let's go to the place with books is the
library the only play stuff
i think the library is the only place
with books because books rhymes with
crooks so let's just go there
all right to the library we're headed to
the library because books runs with
crooks it might be right it might be
wrong if we get this right we're
probably not going to spoil any other
puzzle so you can do this
brother's going to tell a pirate joke
what the
pirate favorite exercise the plague
why
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this is the courthouse we walked by it
yesterday and we were just at a museum
that said there's local artists who like
have their sculptures there
we're approaching the library if this is
wrong we have to go back to the central
area
okay
so there's a book over here which means
a clue might have to do with that
no wait
no oh yes
all right and let's open it
this should have our clue for the next
place i think a pirate's life for me
oh this is a crossword so that's why
they gave us a pencil
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why are pirates so me because they
our are is just there
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we have 32 minutes for full puzzle so
we're going to use a hint
okay
wait
we saw the clue involving the high
school locker turning thing so now we're
going to the next place
what grade did the pirate get in school
pisces
what has eight arms eight legs and eight
eye patches
eight pirates stop playing
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we start the puzzle and we're going to
the final location to get the jl open
and stop the timer
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and
5 minutes of 31 seconds remaining and
that is the puzzle ride of prescott my
favorite part was riding the golf cart
to different places and solving the
puzzle i love the concept of this type
of escape room because we've done the
ones where you buy boxes from the store
and we've also done physical escape
rooms where you literally escape the
room but in this one you're on a golf
cart exploring a city it's so fun to
just ride around and at each location
there's a cool puzzle
and along the way you got to see the
cool landmarks of the city it's got it's
kind of like sightseeing while you're
solving puzzles there are other themes
you can play including science time
traveler and western on to our next
destination
now we're stopping at fight and sun's
mercantile for some ice cream
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the white stuff is a mix of sugar and
cinnamon
and now that they have everything in
there it just slowly roasts for five
minutes first we're gonna sample their
freshly roasted almonds which have a
cinnamon glaze on it
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yeah it's good look they have prickly
pear
their fudge selection is pretty unique
especially to arizona since there's
prickly pear
this is the prickly pear fudge
the red pieces and the fudge are actual
prickly pear pieces
the store is pretty big it's like two
adjacent buildings and this is the
woman's boutique
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bigfoot crust
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there's a lot of unique flavors here
such as prickly pear mango and
pomegranate pineapple and huckleberry
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this is huckleberry similar to blueberry
this is the butter pecan which won the
state award
we just got ice cream so i got a single
size scoop which you can split into two
different flavors i got the butter pecan
ice cream on top and the huckleberry on
the bottom i got the prickly pear mango
strawberry of all the ice cream places
we've been to this has the most unique
selection and they have so much other
stuff besides ice cream it's crazy this
ice cream is very unique because i don't
think i had
i think this the first time i ever had
prickly pear
fudge there and then the prickly pear
ice cream the butter pecan has actual
pecan bits in it
it's so good the huckleberry ice cream
kinda tastes like blueberry and the
taste is very natural i'm gonna try my
dad's ice cream which is burnt cherry
cheesecake
they have actual cheesecake like the
cake part this
i actually
i actually think this might be my
favorite
i think inside my ice cream has little
prickly pear bits actually
there's a lot of souvenirs in the store
as well we're gonna look for a postcard
and maybe an arizona shirt
it's time to explore the town
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this is a little indoor plaza but it
makes it seem like you're outdoors
there's a lot of interesting shops here
a lot of art pieces with javelinos in
this town
there's a guy who said like impress skit
the javelinas can go to your front yard
they're just roaming around everywhere
we are on whiskey row at one point there
were 40 or so bars here
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we're happies
there's even more
i found another happy
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one more happy
you