See - I told you we slept in a junk yard. While the scenerie wasn't the best in this particular spot, we got to see so many marvels today! So, c'mon - let's go!
This Here is the natural cave entrance to Carlsbad caverns, see Sean - listenening to his tour guide in a box. He rushed me 2x to stop snapping pictures and get inside - he was very excited. At night, thousands of bats exit through this hole - wish we could have seen that!
Carlsbad caverns is like a whole other world - underground. It was sooo amazing - gorgeous stalagtites and stalagmites - some even touched from top to bottom! Where some parts could be small crevaces,
But it holds the record for the second largest cave chamber in the world, the Big Room, a natural limestone chamber which is almost 4,000 feet long, 625 feet wide, and 350 feet high at the highest point. That's 8.2 acres son!
The cell phone shots can't show the huge caverns, so here are some detailed images:
We have been to a ton of national parks and monuments on this trip, but this place takes the cake!
Next stop - Roswell!
We went to the international UFO museum. What an informative space.
It started out with "The Roswell Incident" which involved the recovery of materials near Roswell on July 8, 1947. Since the late 1970s has become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, and questioning. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon, but the UFO museum is out to debunk that theory:
Yup, that's a bonafide UFO if you ask me!
And they had professional paintings to prove their theory, and speculate the relationship between human and alien:
So poetic
The museum also put us in "the know" to all basic alien types:
I believe Sean is really a praying mantis under his human skin.
This men in black exhibit was a nice ending.
And we had to get an alien head antenna ball chochki for the car!
Okay, so on the way out of Roswell I finally decided to pick up a hitchiker, I know mom - but really he seemed like a safe bet.
He wouldn't let me take his photograph, and wasn't one for words, but I snuck a quick snapshot of him in the rearview while I pretended to shoot my vacation souvineers:
And we actually hit white sands just before sunset! What an incredible day!
We rolled around and filled our pockets full of sand. Sean talked me into log rolling down a dune again, this time I ate sand & didn't feel very good afterward
Driving out at night was like driving in an Ohio snowstorm without the cold! The roads are all white from sand, and had to be plowed.
we camped just ouside of the park. The stars were so clear & bright - the best night of stargazing yet.
-- Posted from April's phone
I love that picture of Sean making a sand angel. And I find it really ironic that the museum and other alien believers always depict them as being green, but there isn't a green one on their chart. Hmmm.
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