OUR SPRING BREAK TRIP 2009

During Allan's Spring Break this year, he wanted to take Aidan and I on a road trip up to New Mexico. At first I was a little skeptical about doing a road trip and not doing my all time favorite kind of trip....to the beach to relax and get some sun. He wanted to take us to Carlsbad Caverns and skiing at Ski Apache and where ever else our car would take us. :) And we had a GREAT time!!

Our trip started off with some fantastic news....Allan passed the US Patent Bar exam on that Friday evening and we were all just so THRILLED! We then packed up or things and hit the road on Saturday late afternoon and headed to Kerrville, TX to visit Allan's Grandpa AKA Pawpaw. We had a nice visit with him. We got up the next morning and had breakfast with Pawpaw and then took off for Carlsbad, NM. We took Aidan to the Caverns, which he LOVED, then headed to Roswell, NM...wanted to take Aidan to a UFO/Alien Museum, but he got sick when we got there, so we continued on to Ruidoso, NM....it's a ski town in the mountains. We stayed there for a few days and had a grand time! Aidan and Allan did some skiing, we got to eat and shop at all the cute "mom and pop" stores in town. I really enjoyed Ruidoso....it's a cute little town and can't wait to go back. We've been there once with Andy and Allyson back in 2005. After Ruidoso, we headed to Alamogordo....there we stopped at a Pistachio Ranch and had lots of samples and then bought some yummy things, then we headed over to a place to have a famous "Green Chile Burger", then we took Aidan to the Space Museum and then went to see a IMAX about the Moon.

We had lots of family fun and Aidan loved all the different things we did! He keeps talking about it and wants to go back. Enjoy some of our pictures.