hello bloggineers we are at hotel mccoy
a place with vintage vibes and modern
perks and we're going to show you the
fun things you can do in tucson arizona
we're going to give you a quick tour of
the murals around the press
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this piece is cool because the frog
reminds me of the frog from frog and
toad stories and also this is like a
flash flood you can see the cactuses
at the desert there and the water's just
going this is another great mural
because my favorite animal is a bull no
the cow it's a bowl we found a hot dog
okay we just
this is the most helpful piece of art
here because the whole time we thought
tucson was spelled t-u-s-c-o-n
and now we realize that the c and s are
flip-flopped i think they misspelled
that
it spells tuck song instead of two songs
over here is a harry potter mural
without voldemort harry potter is a very
ordinary bull along this wall there are
portraits of people with animals on
their heads
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these are complimentary bikes that you
can borrow and i left on google maps
there's plenty of bike trails nearby
there's plenty of art in the lobby for
sale and they're commission free so 100
of the profits go to the artist
now we're gonna have breakfast they have
an oatmeal bar with a variety of
toppings
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our next stop is tucson botanical
gardens
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we're doing seeing the invisible and
it's an augmented reality experience
they have free ipads for you to borrow
or you could use your own phone so this
is the first of 13 artworks
now we're gonna check out the moonlight
garden and it's based on a korean
festival
ori
gersh from the uk forget me not rotate
to scan the ground
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scan successful it's like a thing that
blasted flower confetti
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whenever you get near an ar site then
the thing will pop up and then you can
press scan surroundings or whatever that
button is then
it'll scan your surroundings so you do a
circle
and then you can choose where to place
the artwork okay i'm going to walk
through it holding this
whoa
okay now that one is cool
and then you can go inside
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this looks like a lot of little snakes
and i don't know what happened do they
die or is or did i just grow sideways
this ar piece is by the chinese artist
ai weiwei and it's called gilded cage
and basically you can walk through a
bunch of turnstiles that form a loop
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this is a zen garden
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come on somebody went on
this is the coolest butterfly place i've
been to they also put out fruits to
attract the butterflies so you can get
close-up photos
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there's dinosaurs to write
and that is tucson botanical garden my
favorite garden here was the secular and
cactus garden and but my favorite
augmented reality was the one where you
spin around those the yellow birdcage i
don't really have a favorite part
because all the plants were so cool and
there's so much variety oh wait no my
favorite part is the butterfly garden
for sure this is one of the best
botanical gardens ever onto the next
stop it's time to check out mini time
machine museum of miniatures there's a
mini door there
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this is a violin maker shop inside of
violin
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the first section is enchanted rim
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i'm not sure what story this is from so
it might just be a miscellaneous fantasy
thing brother wanted to see a harry
potter one somewhere here so this
this looks like the dumb dumb guy that
might be puffed a magic dragon
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in this exhibit it's like we're looking
down from heaven and we see a winter
wonderland
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all the pieces here are super detailed
and one example is with the book title
like you can read each and every word
and this must have taken days for the
artist to complete and if you were to
just take a photo of this it looks very
realistic
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this whole time we've been looking at
miniatures but now we are the miniature
and we're shrunk
all right so in real life we have this
long wooden table right
and on the table there's the blue the
pencil the microphone glasses and the
certificate everything and now inside
this case is everything
shrunk
but then on this mini table there's
another set of things that happens
so it's like three sizes
now we're in the contemporary miniatures
gallery
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and lastly the history gallery
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once you complete the scavenger hunt
then you get these prizes one of the
bags is all harry potter related books
and at the gift shop there's miniature
versions of scramble bean master etched
skin and other stuff that actually work
and that is the mini time machine museum
of miniatures my favorite part was
surprises because they gave you a
mini harry potter book
i thought all the exhibits were cool
because they put so much detail on each
and every one i think the enchanted
realm part was my favorite since it was
related to fairy tales and fictional
stories and when you complete the
scavenger hunt you know a lot of other
places just give you generic prizes like
candy but they actually make their own
cool things best prize ever it would be
cool if we had a shrinking machine so we
could walk inside all the worlds onto
the next attraction
now we are at saguaro national park
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first we're going on the valley view
overlook trail
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along the valley u trail they have the
class with information about each other
so throughout this entire trip all we
see is saguaro after saguaro and it's
getting a little repetitive and for that
reason we were about to give up on this
trail but then the people we just passed
said that there's a really cool view at
the end and we're almost there so we're
going to keep going
we made it to the end and this is the
beauty okay
more cactuses
but if it's not bad you're going to see
the surrounding mountains
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the next and final hike is the signal
hill trail which just goes to the top of
that hill it's a quarter mile
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we reached the top of signal hill and
it's pretty much the same view as the
last one except this time we're not as
high up however
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some interesting petroglyphs here are
spirals uh there's like a goat and a sun
and i wonder what stories they're trying
to tell
and now it's time for our brother to say
the junior ranger pledge that carefully
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that translates to i promise to help
care and protect from america's national
parks
and that is
national park my favorite part was the
first hike because at the end there was
a big view
even though i'm a bit tired of cactuses
from the trip it was very beautiful and
i highly recommend that
at the start of the first hike i was
like more cactuses but after the view i
think i like this place a lot and it's
basically like a forest of cactuses on
to the next stop
after a fun day exploring tucson now
we're going to check into our room at
hotel mccoy we're gonna give you a tour
of our artsy hotel room first is either
a full or queen sized bed oh and they
put these treats on each bed and for the
adults these are drink tokens that you
can redeem at the bar next is my
favorite part the bunk bed the bunk bed
itself looks really nice and to get to
the top you don't have to climb a
dangerous ladder because there's stairs
the stairs are also yours
there's also a mini fridge
for the course this is sorry a pacman
painting and this is one of the largest
hotel flat screen tvs over here is the
bathroom
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