9-23 A Perfect Sunday

Today started with home made crepes by Tony. Then off to church with the family. After we drove up to the Alamogordo Space Museum to see the outside display of rockets and jetengine.  The museum was up the mountainside a bit so we had a wonderful view of Alamogordo and White Sands which we planned to visit later in the day.

Before we headed home we decided to continue up the mountainside to Cloudcroft , a quaint little mountainside village to have lunch. We stopped by Big Daddy's for lunch.  We were up over 8,000 feet so the weather was cool and the sky clear blue.  Tony & I could definitely tell we're in high altitude. Any around of walking left us winded and we always seemed to be yawning!   Luke wasn't the only one with napping in his future today.  So back home we headed for a little quiet time before we head to White Sands.

Later that evening we all loaded into the RV and headed out explore White Sands, sand sled and watch the sunset. I'm not sure what I expected, but stepping out onto miles of pure white sand dunes in bare feet was one of the strangest things I've ever experienced. It looked like snow! The kids tried to sled but it wasn'tslippery enough. Tony decided the sleds needed to  be waxed.  Even though the sledding ended up a bust we still had a blast walking around, knocking around a soccer ball, and just sitting around on the firm, cool sand. What fun!

Soon after the sun set we were all back in the RV ready for the 20 mile ride back home.  It was a great finish to a wonderful day.  Tomorrow morning the girls head off to school, Tony reports in for his first official day as an instructor and we head out for Oklahoma,OK.  We're going to miss them all!  Thanks for the new memories!