Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

Jared

So shortly after my return from New Hampshire, we headed up to Utah for Jared's mother's family reunion that takes place on the first Saturday of August in Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah every year.  This time, however, we decided to make a few pit stops along the way.  We left the 29th of July after work with everything ready to go.  We drove until close to midnight and stopped at a rest stop.  After a short slumber in the car, we made our way over to southern New Mexico to visit Carlsbad Caverns.  We pulled up as they were about to open at 8 a.m..  The guided tour was sold out in minutes so by the time we made it inside the visitor's center the tickets were sold out.  We decided to just buy an admission in and do the walk ourselves.  It was quite the trip inside and quite a sight to see - a lot of stalagmites and stalactites and other formations of sorts. 

A very tired Kristen

Pit stop #2 was stopping outside of Phoenix, Arizona for a couple of days to stay and visit with Jared's sister and her family.   We got to see their new place and to visit a place that served Thrifty ice cream.   That Monday night we had fhe with them with a lesson on David and Goliath.  Jared brought along his sling and some materials to make one for everyone.  For a demo, we bought some marshmallows to be our 'rocks' and a battle of marshmallow slinging one another eventually ensued and ended with everyone laughing and exploded marshmallows all over the room.