Day Two----IMAX and Space Museum, plus Hot Tub

We went 'downtown' to thriving Alamogordo where there is an IMAX theater and the Space Museum. We rushed thru the 4 floors of the museum because we had reserved two hours of for scheduled shows at the IMAX and wanted to be on time .
Here are some snaps of the museum.












The IMAX was really good with the first hour explaining our position and status in the universe, then the second hour was a terrific account of the troubles encountered with the Hubble telescope after it was launched in 1990 and the arduous task of making repairs using large lenses not unlike contact lenses to repair the faulty mirror.

Big Day in Cloudcroft

The Martins are here, well, two of them are.

We picked up Colin and Anna in El Paso yesterday and after eating lunch drove back to Cloudcroft.
The kids love it here and having a good time so far. Lots of activities are planned for the next two weeks so I will have blog fodder for a while.
Here we are meeting them at the airport...


And then we went to lunch at Nana's brand new restaurant...

More Peter Piper fun....

Arriving at the cabin in Cloudcroft,


Anna pops the bag.

Here it is

I promised I'd post the pit........here is the sign.

More Deer

Still have not revisited the 'Slash Pit' yet but, I will. When we move from this cabin at the end of the month we'll be closer to the pit..
The next cabin is in the village and I hope the bed is a better one than the one here :-(

Here are some more deer vids If I sound like I'm out of breath, I am. At 9600 ft walking up the 16 steps to the road to film the deer is an effort.

As you see I like having deer around.

We've been eating very well the past few days since our California care package arrived. We had fresh peaches, plums and corn and two very nice salame sausages. Oh, it is good stuff. Thanks Walkers.
Cards from each of the kids were appreciated too.

Big dinner tonight; we will have tenderloin, fresh corn and some Cabernet. Yeah!

Oh, I'm so at odds....

Today and I saw a sign that said ' Slash Pit'
I was riding the bike and didn't have my camera so maybe I'll post it tomorrow.

The reason for my oddness however is that yesterday in El Paso I bought 12 bottles of wine.....all of them Cameron Hughes and 3 different varietals.......well, 2 of them had the same livery of silver cap and label.....One was lot 149 a Napa Cab $20 and the other was a Lot 140 a Sonoma Cab $12...they looked almost identical.

After we got home to Cloudcroft I saw that the Sam's guy had charged all of the wine at $12......He thought they were all Lot 140 !

I was so miffed.

What would you do? I will not be in El Paso again until August but my wife will be there next week. Should I send them $30?

In other news.......the bird that I let recoup last week made an appearance today. It's either the same one or one just like it......
I noticed that it stayed far away from the windows so it might be the same one.........I like catch and release, don't you?

Talk about Eclectic......Humpff

This little cabin is very nice. We have a great view; we are 6 miles out in the countryside and we'll be sorry to leave it at the end of the month for the next one in the village proper.

While it has a lot of off-beat decorations and furnishings it is quite comfortable and is very well equipped with pans, dishes, cutlery, utensils and wine openers. We brought our own Laguiole but there is already one here! We brought our own hi-falutin' glasses and there were some elegant ones here too. As my mother said, "best be safe than sorry"

Here are a few pics of the joint......

Good Morning, Deer

We have seen deer around the cabin a couple of times. They seem to be relatively accustomed to humans; they are not too skittish.
This morning we saw these as they passed by the back porch.....


I would like to have been able to video yesterday's visit by two bucks and two does but I wasn't toting.
But,
Here are two vids of today's action......