When I asked Paul and Grayson what their favorite part of the trip was they both answered ALCATRAZ.
Paul was thankful that he had ordered tickets online ahead of time, otherwise they may not have been able to see it.
They had a cold and blustery ride out to the island, but thankfully it was at least dry.
They took an audio tour of Alcatraz, and Paul said that the tour was very well done.
They got to check out several of the cells, and imagine what life would be like there. This is a cell in solitary. The prisoners would sit in the dark in the cells for 24 hours a day. Paul said one of the stories on the audio tour was a former prisoner talking about how when he was in there he would break a button off of his shirt and throw it up in the air, and then look for it. This gave him something to do to keep him from going crazy.
Here Grayson is behind the glass in the visiting section. No physical contact allowed.
Kind of hard to imagine what life was like out there on "the Rock", sounds like it was pretty rough.
1 comment:
What an awesome idea to take one kid on a huge adventure like this! We do a cone at McD's every once in a while and call it good! I loved Alcatraz when I went there years ago too. We are heading to SF this summer as a family but we will probably skip Alcatraz. I'm taking notes on the other places your guys visited though! What fun.
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