Benture Day

We took a day off and drove to Winslow today to look up the graves of Frank and Quini Higginson.  We just learned last year that they had both passed away.

We left about 8 this morning on a "benture" trip. We went to Winslow to find the graves of Frank and Quini Higginson. We met then when we were digging at Brigham City in the early 90's. There were such an exceptional couple, they were in their 70's and raising 2 grandchildren. Quini said that she just wanted to live long enough to see those 2 kids grow up and then she would be happy for the lord to take her. I can't remember exactly the reasons they had the kids, John remembered that the parents were drug addicts and he thought maybe one or both had been in jail. Not sure, but they took the kids to raise. Quini was from Spain, I think. Frank was working there when he met her. His first wife left him when he was away, I think in the military, but not sure. He had at least one child with her, a boy that disappeared in Australia He was out sailing and went missing. So sad! We always told Frank he should write his history, he had such an interesting life. I think he was working in Spain for a contractor or something when he met Quini.
We also drove down Winslow main and stopped at THE corner and I had John take my photo there, then we visited La Posada, one of our favorites from the days when we spent lots of time in Winslow. They have opened up more rooms there, the part that was still railroad offices is now a part of the hotel. It was kind of dark and I didn’t care for how they've decorated it. There are lots of paintings done by the owners wife hanging and they are so weird! But it's still a cool place. We ate lunch at Sonic, I had a chicken wrap and sweet potato tots, pretty good! John had a burger and fries. We also stopped in at Brigham City, they have done a lot more work on restoration there, more walls up and they put log walls up for two rooms so people can see how they were. They're keeping the yard cleared of Camel Thorns, that's good. Unfortunately, the dining hall is in bad shape, the wall that John Hohmann worked on way back is coming apart again, guess he didn’t fix it very well. Stopped in at WalMart to pick up a few items, then headed for home. We stopped at the Jackrabbit Trading post, and got photos of us with the rabbit, got snacks and a few souvenirs and then stopped at Obed, it's a weed patch! From there, we went to Holbrook, where we stopped at the Wigwam Hotel so I could take pix. They have old cars parked outside the wigwams and one said Doc Hudson on the license and it looked like the car from the movie cars! Cool. Then we headed for home by way to Snowflake. They were working on the road by Petrified Forest on the way down, putting down oil, so we wanted to avoid that. We got home about 4. Whew, a long day! Julie and Eric called John while we were at Jackrabbit. Connie took Mabel to the ER, she thought she was dehydrated, and they wanted John to go help her out of the car. Eric was at our house when he called, so John told him to go help as we were at least 2 hours from home. Don't know why they can't get the ER people to help, but they won't ask. Just after we got home, Eric showed up again, Mabel is still at the ER, he said they are giving her IV's to get her levels of something up before they let her go home. We wonder if they won't keep her in the hospital. Julie wanted to know if John would go down and help them get Mabel in the car when they leave, he said if they call before we go to bed at 9. Baked cinnamon rolls when we got home, yumm!