Ruidoso-Day 5

 

After another enjoyable morning eating breakfast on the deck we headed out to Roswell about an hour away to check out the aliens. 

Roswell is a fun place to visit, but not a place you really want to spend to much time at. Prior to our visit Chuck was very open to the idea of aliens unlike me who have never truly believed believed. 

The night before we had checked out an episode of The Why Files on You Tube about Roswell. Much that was included in the International UFO Museum centered around what we had watched the night before. 

After visiting the museum Chuck left pretty much a non-believer. I think “hokey” might have been the agreed upon term for this out of this world experience. 

The museum, to be honest was a little underwhelming. We checked out the gift shop, and was disappointed that we could not find a Roswell thimble.

We left and checked out a few other souvenir shops still on a thimble quest, but came up empty handed. We returned to the museum gift shop, and picked up alien pencils for the boys, and a Roswell poker chip for my printer’s tray. 

For lunch we knew we wanted to check out the space saucer shaped McDonalds. We enjoyed our lunch surrounded by the alien paraphernalia. We had taken the opportunity to get plenty of alien photo shoots, and made sure to get a selfie in front of the Welcome to Roswell sign on the outskirts of town. 

We headed back to Ruidoso listening to our audio book. We had seen a pottery shop on the way to Roswell, and had made a note to stop by on our way back. We picked up a beautiful piece of pottery for the house. (when we arrived home we discovered that the pottery was missing its lid. After contacting the owner he dropped it in the mail.)

When we got home it had just started to rain, and it rained for a couple of hours. We were trying to finish up Season Eight of Suits, but kept having to pause the tv because we couldn’t hear over the rain hitting the metal roof. While we were watching tv two male elks made their way past our porch area. I was able to get several close up photos. 

We ate dinner at the house, hung out in the hot tub, and watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. We had made the decision earlier to return home on Sunday, so Chuck could have another day off before heading to Dallas on Tuesday for work. 

We will have another leisurely breakfast on our beloved deck, and try to get in the road by 11:00 so we can have daylight for most of our travel. Overall, we have had a wonderful time, and didn’t realize how much we really needed to get away. The cooler weather, beautiful landscape, and relaxing atmosphere has been picture perfect.