October 20, 2008

Road trip! Wed., October 8


Today we road-tripped across Texas to Albuquerque, NM! My dad, Steve, and his wife Cynthia (now known as Boppa and Grammy) have been there for a year and we hadn't been able to visit. We timed our trip to coincide with the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta - more about that later.

It took us 14 hours - 12 on the road - to get there, and Katie was pretty good about it. Luckily she loves to "read" books in the car. We are a little tired of her Kindermusik CDs, though... It helps that the speed limit in Texas is so high. And there was interesting scenery, actually. Acres and acres of wind turbines, which we all thought was really cool.
We also saw lots of working windmills (a big hit with Katie), and lots of working oil pumps. It was West Texas, after all.
We stopped for dinner in Roswell, NM. We missed the aliens, but not all the alien kitsch. It was pretty funny.

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