Casa Grande Ruins

We live about 1/2 an hour from the Casa Grande Ruins and the kids always ask if we can go. They have since we moved here so what 2 years......so yesterday I have some inspections in Coolidge and told the kids that if they wanted to come along and sit while I did the inspections..I would take them to lunch AND the ruins. Well they thought it sounded great - the girls popped in a movie and watched it with Clayton while Mason sat up front and became my navigator / boy friday and away we went. There were a few moans but overall they were great...AND they decided to get McD's for lunch...Mason objected but was overruled...what could he do...so we stopped at the Coolidge McD's - which has a playground - and had lunch. We bumped into Christian Hughes there and got the good news that Emily and the kids were coming to meet him for lunch...so bonus - there were going to be friends!! I think the people at McD's threw a party when we left - they could actually hear themselves think...Why is it that kids have 1 volume - and it is always set to loud?! So we left and went to the Ruins. The kids had fun - but there wasn't a lot to see...they spent more time in the little museum looking at the displays, playing on the interactive TV which was showing desert reptiles / animals. Oh well - we did it - I won't hear any more complaining about going there now.....I am just getting pressure on Slide Rock...we'll be going soon.........