Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving Break

This is the year that Stephen and I determined that we should spend most of our vacations on the road to visit our children. It is great seeing the kids, but all that time in the car is tiring.

We left right after I got home from school on Friday, November 19th, and headed to New Mexico. After a few short hours in a roadside rest, we managed to arrive in Las Cruces by about 12:30 Saturday afternoon. It was really good to be able to spend 2 1/2 days visiting with Curtis. He didn't want to show us off to the members of his university ward, but other than that he let us move around the city unhindered.

We of course saw the city through geocaching as we visited many sites that Curtis would never have thought to taken us to otherwise. We even had the opportunity to sit in the theater with Curtis and watch the latest episode of Harry Potter.



We took the scenic route to Utah, stopping to visit Mesa Verde National Park near Moab. It was somewhere that I've wanted to visit for many years and we finally made it. I can't imagine how the Native Americans could survive the winters living on those cliffs -- it was freezing cold while we were there. The structures were amazing though.

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