This is what Jacob said this morning as we were leaving Texas! First he got to see a cactus, then we saw a prairie dog town. We were on our way to see a meteor crater and when we stopped to get gas we found a stick bug in the car :) This was all Jake's idea of heaven.
The meteor crater is in Odessa Texas, not far from Midland which is the home of President Bush. We didn't get to go into the museum, we were there to early and it wasn't open. But we did get to walk around the crater hole which is huge. It isn't very deep because over the years dirt has been blown into it, but you can still very mush see the impact area.
After the crater we hopped back in the car and drove almost 4 hours to Carlsbad Caverns. OMG we LOVED the cavern!!! We have seen several caves, including Mamouth cave but this one is spectacular!!! It has the biggest open area of any cave in the US. We took pictures but they just don't show anywhere near how beautiful it was. And the mountains were the cavern is are awesome too! We had such a good time, the boys were all taking pictures.
We drove through Roswell but we didn't stop. It was fun to see the gift shop with alien merchandice. They had a UFO museum and a McDonalds playland that was shaped like a UFO. The street lamps had black slanted eyes to make them look like aliens.
We got into Albuquerque around 9:30 and all the boys are in bed. We have another really busy day tomorrow. We will see a few things here in New Mexico before we head to the Grand Canyon.
5 comments:
Sounds like another great day! It is so fun exploring this great country we live in.
I LOVED Carlsbad Caverns when I went on our cross country driving trip when I was a kid.
Keep up the great updates!! I am loving reading them. I anxiously check everyday to see if you have posted a new one.
How cool! I want to go to Roswell!!!! Thanks for sharing all this with us.
"All my dreams are coming true" -- It doesn't get any better than that! I'm in tears reading this!
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