Does it get this cold in Phoenix?

Wednesday March 12, 2008 Baltimore St.

I took out the 8th grade class from Desert Shadows, AZ, which is in or near Phoenix, on a chilly evening. The winds died down and it was around 35 degrees at 8:30 when we got started. This was a decent group, not the best I've ever hard but nowhere near the worst. They seemed interested at times and lost at others. Maybe it was the cold sinking into their brains. Some of these kids only had a T-shirt and shorts on. This isn't the desert kids, welcome to the East Coast in March! We enjoyed ourselves and it was no where near cold enough to worry about frostbite!

I think part of the problem this group had was their itinerary. They flew into DC, got on a bus, drove to Gettysburg, ate at Pickett's, and then went on the Ghost Tour. They might have been better served to jog a few laps around the track at the Middle School to burn off some of their energy before the tour. These groups only have a short amount of time and they try to cram as much into the trip as possible. This works two ways. You get to see a lot of stuff on a trip like this, but really don't have enough time to take it in. On the other hand, you get a really broad overview and hopefully that will spark enough interest to make you want to come back and explore more in depth. Six of one, half dozen of the other I guess. At least they stayed overnight in Gettysburg.


Tours start running 7 days a week starting Friday March 14th.

Happy Hauntings...

"RS"