We flew to San Diego on Friday, and we stayed at Steve (my brother) and Julie's (my sister-in-law) for the weekend. Among other things, we hit a bowling alley and rolled a few games while Daniel participated in his league. We went to SeaWorld, and Robin, who works there, arranged "sweet hookups". There was a trip to Las Clementes to have lunch with Holly who brought cool JR, and we went to an entertaining place called the Shout House (The Home of Dueling Pianos) in downtown San Diego on our final night in town.
Then, over three days (Monday through Wednesday), we drove about a thousand miles through the desert to Los Alamos, NM. The early part of that trip was along the Mexican border. Lots of RV parks, border patrol vehicles, gusty winds and American cars. We stayed in hostels in surprisingly hip Tucson, AZ and quirky Truth or Consequences, NM along the way. On Tuesday morning, as we attempted to watch President Obama's inauguration, we got kicked out of a hotel lobby in Willcox, AZ by a quilting group insistent that their meeting was very important!
Wednesday we drove up through NM, had lunch in Albuquerque, and up until Saturday morning we were in Los Alamos with Sue's Aunt Catherine and Uncle Steve. We made a trip into Santa Fe on Thursday, and we saw some amazing museums and Tsankewi National Park on Friday.
We snapped a couple hundred pictures along the way. No album would do justice to the amount of new information we absorbed, but here're a few choice pics.
Beluga Whales. Note the people in the water. Eek.
A cold lizard in Steve and Julie's backyard.
The border fence is the black line in the distance.
A junk shop window display in Truth or Consequences.
Um...
PS
Thanks to all for their birthday wishes! And, it's now the year of the Earth Ox!
4 comments:
"Um" indeed. There is no way for me to look at that sign long enough to come up with any explanation except students got up there with letters and the words are a prank.
We had a blast. Plenty of sweet hookups await your future visits.
Sue & Rob, You must take quilting people seriously... After all they sew the world together. Looks like you had a very good trip... I
hope we can get back to seeing this wide country...Come back again... Bob & Gloria
Julie, that's exactly what I thought, but then I got the joke -- note their school mascot. Then again, having that as your mascot is probably worse than the sign. (Yuma is known for its old prison.)
Thank, B&G. Looking forward to the next time! In the meantime, take good care.
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I get it now! I had to enlarge the picture to see what the mascot is - so now it all makes sense. Except for being the "Criminals", of course. Wonder what the post-graduate crime rate is?
Hilarious!
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