High winds in Amarillo almost spoiled the fireworks set to go off at Southwest park last night! Chuck and I, along with Kevin and Kaitlin,sat at the park in lawnchairs for about 3 hours last night, waiting on the fireworks....
The winds made it pretty chilly, but eventually the fireworks did get set off and it was a pretty good show! There were several other fireworks that went off in the surrounding neighborhood as well, so we watched those until the real show started!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Ruidoso, NM
It was a long drive to Ruidoso, but we made it, only to be greeted by rain! 4 days of rain, off and on. But the rain did not slow down our fun...
Wednesday we checked into our cabin then looked in a few shops in town. Little did we know that we'd hit the best ones that first day! We did end up finding a few other neat ones, as well as one owned by a couple from Andrews, TX!
Chinese food for dinner - huge portions and lots of leftovers we didn't end up eating, oops! Then, the highlight of the day - Mini golf! I ended up winning by 15 points!!
Thursday - breakfast at Pena's place - YUM!!! They have amazing food! Blueberry pancakes are great! (we ate there every morning...I couldn't get enough!) We spent the rest of the morning in Lincoln, NM, at the museum there, where they kept Billy the Kid before he killed the prison guards holding him and escaped! Pretty interesting exhibit there.
Off to the racetrack Thursday afternoon, where I placed my first bet on a horse...and won! Uncle Woody was a good pick! Then I lost the next 2 I bet on and decided that was a day. My parents lost the races they bet on also. Dinner at Santinos Italian - yummy food there too! Then Fireworks at the Inn of the Mountain Gods....LOTS of fireworks over the lake! And about 10,000 people on their lawn!
Friday - Jeeping in the morning - we drove to Nogal and took some of the less maintained dirt county roads back to Bonito lake and back to Ruidoso from there. Mom and dad got bumped around a bit, although I tried to find the smoothest route. Dinner was at the Flying J Ranch where they do a chuckwagon supper and a 'gunfight' then a show after. Amazing food, cute shops and entertainment for kiddos (pony rides, panning for gold, and pistol shooting), then a fake gunfight in the center of 'town'. Followed by an amazing chuckwagon supper on tin plates and mugs and a singing show afterwards! Lots of fun!
Saturday - after breakfast at Pena's Place, it was off to Roswell to see the International UFO museum - kind of interesting to look at, but I don't see the big deal of it. Then the trek home!
Overall it was a fun trip - although we got rained out a few times...we still had fun filled days and lots of entertainment!
Wednesday we checked into our cabin then looked in a few shops in town. Little did we know that we'd hit the best ones that first day! We did end up finding a few other neat ones, as well as one owned by a couple from Andrews, TX!
Chinese food for dinner - huge portions and lots of leftovers we didn't end up eating, oops! Then, the highlight of the day - Mini golf! I ended up winning by 15 points!!
Thursday - breakfast at Pena's place - YUM!!! They have amazing food! Blueberry pancakes are great! (we ate there every morning...I couldn't get enough!) We spent the rest of the morning in Lincoln, NM, at the museum there, where they kept Billy the Kid before he killed the prison guards holding him and escaped! Pretty interesting exhibit there.
Off to the racetrack Thursday afternoon, where I placed my first bet on a horse...and won! Uncle Woody was a good pick! Then I lost the next 2 I bet on and decided that was a day. My parents lost the races they bet on also. Dinner at Santinos Italian - yummy food there too! Then Fireworks at the Inn of the Mountain Gods....LOTS of fireworks over the lake! And about 10,000 people on their lawn!
Friday - Jeeping in the morning - we drove to Nogal and took some of the less maintained dirt county roads back to Bonito lake and back to Ruidoso from there. Mom and dad got bumped around a bit, although I tried to find the smoothest route. Dinner was at the Flying J Ranch where they do a chuckwagon supper and a 'gunfight' then a show after. Amazing food, cute shops and entertainment for kiddos (pony rides, panning for gold, and pistol shooting), then a fake gunfight in the center of 'town'. Followed by an amazing chuckwagon supper on tin plates and mugs and a singing show afterwards! Lots of fun!
Saturday - after breakfast at Pena's Place, it was off to Roswell to see the International UFO museum - kind of interesting to look at, but I don't see the big deal of it. Then the trek home!
Overall it was a fun trip - although we got rained out a few times...we still had fun filled days and lots of entertainment!
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