This morning, Grandpa Glenn and Edna took all of us up to Tortilla Flats.  The route was steep and had plenty of sharp curves.  We stopped on the way to look out at Canyon Lake, which like Lake Mead is a canyon held back by a dam:

Torilla Butte overlooks Tortilla Flats:

It’s a tourist trap type of place:

The restaurant’s walls are covered in patron’s dollar bills:

Cute sign for sale in the gift shop:

Our son tested the bar stools, which are saddles:

On the way back, we were treated to some nice views of the Superstition Mountains:

We stopped a Goldfield, a recreated mining town where every storefront is a gift shop:

Horseshoe art:

Our last stop was the Superstition Mountain Museum:

We looked at a model of a gold mill.  A full size mill stands in the background:

This mill has twenty 900-pound stamps that are raised and dropped by the camshaft-like drive system.  The stamps crush the rock which allows the gold to be extracted:

Here’s a horse powered well driller:

Another warm and beautiful day in Arizona!