You just don’t tell a guy that you are going shopping with your daughter, and “You’re on your own” without expecting the guy to spend some money. So Bonnie and Holly went to buy plants and I went to buy rocks.
Just another million tons of rocks
Imagine the giant orb spinning on water. I can only imagine the water pressure this took.
I drove down to the “strip” and went to a couple of shows.
One was at the La Quinta Inn and one next door at the Travelodge. I found very little of interest to me at each place, except some nice red and green Sunset Chrysocolla (some refer to this as Sonora Sunset). I acquired a two pound chunk to slice up at home.
Dino at the La Quinta show.
There was quite a fossil display in one of the tents with both fossil reproductions and real fossils. I’m not that interested in fossils, but I took a couple pictures for you guys. I went to the Gem Shops’ store down the street from the La Quinta and looked at his nice Mexican agates and rough. I also met the man that owned the old Ocean Jasper mine in Madagascar. This mine played out three years ago. All the material was removed starting in 1999, so the Ocean Jasper was totally collected in an eight year period. He sold me a bit of the remaining material.
Bonnie gave me a mission to go back out to the Gem Mall and buy some jade beads that she saw last time we were there, so being a top-notch husband I did my duty. While I was there I bought a couple of Montana Moss Agate cabs also.
The Gem Mall is a giant hard-sided tent.
I knocked off early today and enjoyed the 65 degree sunny weather.