White Sands, New Mexico

We just got back from Spring Break. We were so excited to go explore New Mexico. Our first was Roswell, to eat at the McDonald's that looks like a SPACE SHIP, the kids LOVED it. Roswell had ALIENS at ever business, painted or a statue, the kids got a kick out of seeing them everywhere. The street lights were even white heads with BIG ALIEN eyes.

We headed to Carlsbad RV park, to park the camper. It was fun little RV park with a park and a CLOSED down indoor pool, YES, the kids were ticked. The next morning we headed out to WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO. It is 20 minutes from the WHITE SANDS MISSILE range. There is a big sign as you drive into town that says, "White Sands will be closed when were are launching missiles." 

The drive was AMAZING. We had to drive through the mountains. We drove through the sweetest little towns. The first one was the city of HOPE, it was fun. Little old cabins and old stores. The next town was Mayhill, this was a cute little quaint town, this one actually had an elementary school. The last town was called Cloudcroft, this one was a little bigger, it actually had a small ski resort, in the middle of now where. The lift was right by the road. As you leave Cloudcroft, in the break of the mountain you could see a plain of WHITE...of course being from, Utah it looks like snow. BUT, it is sand. It was an amazing sight.

When you get closer you drive into the park and as you drive about 8 miles, the road ends and you are driving on the sand. It was so fun and breathe taking. 

We were told by someone to take some cardboard down and use that to slide down the hills..that soooooo does not work. So, I jumped in the car and went to the gift shop were you could buy/rent sleds. Those were AWESOME.  I also bought some wax to put on the bottom. Rylee loved that, she waxed hers every run and would fly down the sand. We realized it was just has fun to run down the hill, we had a blast doing that. 

It was a PERFECT day, the upper 70's. The BEST thing was the sun would get HOT, but the sand was cool, the further you stuck your feet in, the colder it got. We had a very fun filled FAMILY day!!!

 On the drive I taught the kids something that will take them far in life....the PRINGLE duck bill. They got a kick out of that..... The upper right picture is Luke's new signature move..you will see it in ALOT of pictures throughout the pictures.

Driving into the White Sand park...

This picture had to be posted by itself..Luke had the first CRASH of the day. I was so excited to get it the PERFECT picture of it :0) After he crashed he sat up and spit out the sand and wiped off his face, and said, "let's do it again".....He is a trooper. He walked up and down the hill, more than anyone. He was in HEAVEN!!!

This was a WORKING trip for Boomer, so sadly he was on his computer most the time, but he had fun too....

THE BEST PICTURE EVER..Boomer and I booking it down the hill. We started with our hands held, but I realized fast, if I didn't let go, it was going to be him PULLING  me down the hill. This might have to be our Christmas card :0)

The Lower left picture is of Rylee hitting the bottom of the HILL hard, she felt it in the morning, she was a little sore. She was laughing so hard, I don't think she realized how hard she actually hit.

So, things to remember next time. DO NOT WEAR anything with pockets, we had SAND EVERYWHERE. The sand came off our body with baby powder very easily. But, we all had a THICK paste on the bottom of our feet. It took us about 30 min to get it all off, baby powder didn't work and water made a hard paste. So, we had to scrape and dig that stuff off. It is actually not sand it's stuff called gypsum. If you want to learn more about it, click HERE.

Stay tuned for more pictures of SPRING BREAK 2012!!!