Today was a glorious day! After sleeping on an extremely comfortable bed in the other bedroom we woke up rested and refreshed.
As we ate our breakfast out on the porch we were greeted by our hummingbird friends, a family of elks, three horses including a foal, a flock of wild turkeys, and a chipmunk. We spent quite a bit of time drinking coffee and enjoying our animal menagerie.
We hit the road and traveled to Alamogordo to visit McGinn’s Pistachioland , the home of the world’s largest pistachio. The highlight of our visit was the pistachio orchard tour, and the yummy pistachio ice cream we ate afterwards. We enjoyed talking with some other couples who were visiting as well. I learned so much about pistachios and how they are grown that I was in pistachio heaven when we left. I’ll never approach a pistachio in the same way again.
After leaving we continued down the road to White Sands National Monument. We viewed a fascinating video about how the sands were formed by gypsum broken into tiny white particles by the high winds. We drove through the park to see the sand dunes, and even had an opportunity to get out and walk onto the dunes. It was quite an impressive landmark.
We made it home in time for dinner at Casa Blanca where we enjoyed a delicious Mexican meal followed up by some wiggly, jiggly flan.
We’ve got another fun day planned for tomorrow, and I can’t wait.
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