Monday morning found us at the Prescott Chamber of Commerce meeting in a beautiful location opposite Downtown Plaza (not at the town square, it’s a rectangle! Thanks Don!)
It was great to meet Dave Maurer, the CEO of the Chamber. He gave us insight into the workings of their chamber and the challenges they face. We are seeing many similarities in the issues that tourism faces back at home. The chamber offices are above the visitor information centre.
It is interesting to see that their visitor centre has only one paid staff member and the rest is staffed by volunteers. Prescott is a town that seems to have a many successful volunteer organizations. From all accounts the town has a lot of retirees who devote their time to different (all worthy)causes.
*On a side note we have spoken to many Rotarians who do volunteer, and I am very inspired by this!!
After the Chamber we had a look through Hotel Vendome, which is a hotel walking distance to the town centre. The quirk to this property is that it is said to be haunted by ghost of Abbey & her cat. Years ago, Abbeys husband went out at night to get some medicine and never came back. Abbey starved herself and the cat to death. We checked out the haunted room, and many people have heard and read about the legend and have created a shrine to their memory. A little kitchy (sp?) for my taste.
Lunch was at the award winning Prescott Brewery. Yes Dad, we did do some “beer testing”!! Achocolypse was the most memorable beer for me, but we did also get to try a few beers, tour their brewery, and Kirsty & I tried Buffalo for the first time. Lunch was delicious, and John , the owner has a great passion for beer – due partly to time spent in Germany. (Hard life hey?)
The afternoon saw us tour the Log Cabin B&B and the Smoki museum (pronounced Smoke-eye). Smoki has a great history, I recommend y’all Googling it! I won’t waffle on any longer; this is becoming a mammoth entry. Dinner saw us at the Prescott Resort, a major accommodation and gambling venue on Native Indian land. It was a great chance to sit down, give our Jim a break from driving and paparazzi-ing and stare into the sun – in Sarah’s case!
We girls watched the movie Julie & Julia on the place on the way over. Briefly, this is a movie about Julie, who starts a blog about working her way through Julia Childs “Art of French Cooking” over a year. She ends up having thousands of readers hanging on her every word…
I wonder what our loyal following is? I know I have been sent an email asking what’s happening when we have missed a day or two. Thousands? Maybe not but we appreciate the comments on our blog and that you are “sharing our journey with us!”
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