Tucson Gem Show Day Four

Ahhhh rocks!!!

I will not mention the weather in this blog today. And photo's will come later, I am working on putting them all on a Picasa page to share.

We do get the best scenic drives in on this trip, due to how far north we are staying. Amazing views of the Catalina mountains, beautiful dessert and cactus. It's always a lovely meditation to start and end my day.

Today started at the Grant Inn show, where I found some lovely Chinese quartz self-healed/elestial points and a smoky quartz elestial, as well as small quartz points for grids. That show is mostly beads and jewelry, not too many stones.



Then we hit El Charro for lunch, a favorite Tucson visit since it is the oldest running Mexican restaraunt in the US in its original location, and is wonderful food. SO love yummy shrimp taco's! We did not sit in the great outdoor patio shown, but will again some year.









Anyhow, we finally got to the Ramada, which I knew had a few vendor's I'd purchase from. MORE lingams, this time BLACK lingams! He had a ton of large one's, but nothing like I saw last year or previous years, maybe because Twintreess have snatched up all the over 5 foot pieces. Also found some really nice Ruby with Fuschite and Kyanite wands and sphere's, Selenite hearts and palm's from a sweetheart of a Moroccan dealer (met him last year), and then a few Tangerose quartz points, amethyst points, and a small box of tiny Tangerine Lemurian's. Oooh are those all fun. They're from the Tangerose guy (also a co-mine owner with Twintreess), but all his other stuff is SO expensive even though it is BEAUtiful. He had a few nice Super Seven's, including polished cab's.

Oh and saw some great amethyst cathedral's, but not as big as they are at another show I'll hopefully see tomorrow (just for you, Val!).


It was a fun day, still more to find tomorrow when I finally get back to the La Quinta to see Maya Canyon, Treess, and the other 5 hotels on that strip. It'll be a long but happy day. On Thursday we are headed to the Tucson Botanical Garden (weather permitting) and/or the Saquaro National Park (maybe Friday too).








Hey just as an aside note, did anyone else in the Twin Cities area or the midwest see any UFO's today? Just wonderin' ......... ;)