Day 4: Tucson to Flagstaff

Today we woke up early and packed up the house in Tucson to head up to Flagstaff. On our way, there was a large thunderstorm, that we drove through. After the heavy rains, clouds formed over the mountains in the distance that looked like fog rolling down the slopes. A rainbow was formed as well. As we drove to Phoenix, we stopped at NBC 12 Arizona. We met the station weatherman, Jimmy Q, and we watched him air a forecast live. He also talked to us about working for a news station. Afterwards, we got to go in front of the greenscreen and joked around. After this really nice experience, we continued our journey to the Salt River Canal System, where we met Nancy Selover, the state climatologist. There we learned about how the valley gets its water from the rivers up in the mountains. Finally we drove out of Phoenix to Flagstaff. Along the way it started to thunderstorm again, but as we headed farther north, the rain turned to heavy snow. The roads were very treacherous and slippery. Many cars had skidded out onto the side of the road. We managed to make it off the highway and slowly made our way to Flagstaff. Once we were in the side streets of our new neighborhood, two of our vans got stuck in the snow at different times. We had to run out of the vans and push them all up the hills. After this snowy experience, we finally arrived at our new house for the next week. There was already twelve inches of snow on the ground. Everybody was glad to be inside the warm and cozy house. During our investigation of the house, we spotted a pool table and began to play. We are all looking forward to a stir-fry dinner in a few minutes. That's all for today, we will be back.

- Tim and Winston (Timtim and Tonton)