White Sands

We took Emma and the kids to White Sands the last weekend of Spring Break.  It was pretty crowded, and the only spot we could find to eat was this handicapped area.  I sometimes think we should qualify for handicapped, so I didn't feel too bad that we were there.  Arthur roasted us some hot dogs and we had a dandy time.  

This is the only picture we got of Sydney smiling.  I thought she would be curious about the sand and want to crawl around in it, but after tasting it when we first put her down, she didn't want anything to do with it, and wasn't very happy the rest of the time we spent there.

Emma!  That white sand is BLINDING!

Here we are looking for a good place to slide down.

Climbing up the dunes is exhausting!

can't. go. another. step.

Last time we went, it was so windy, we didn't stay long because the wind kept getting in everyone's eyes, and just made us all really uncomfortable.  So this time, we kept our eyes on the weather before we left, and Friday was supposed to be pretty mellow.  Well, there was NO wind at all, and it turns out that you can get pretty hot without any wind out there.  So we found that if you dug a few inches down, you could cool yourself down with the cool sand beneath the surface.  That's what Sean was doing here in this picture.

A cool shot that Arthur took

I love the uniqueness of White Sands--I've never seen anything like it. 

Hayden had a blast-he was just covered in sand, and would go down and hike up and go down and hike up, over and over!  He totally wore himself out and fell asleep on the short drive back to the hotel when we were done at the dunes.

Sydney finding solace in her bottle.   

She does not like sand.

The girls.

Our family

(except Sydney who was drinking her bottle and it would have been tragic to interrupt her.)

And she is completely done with White Sands.

Heading back to the car.

We stayed in Alamogordo that night at the same hotel as our friends the McEntires!  So when the McEntire's got in we had a swim party in the pool.  Our kids thought it was so fun to see them there!  We were doing the same vacation in opposite order, and crossed in the middle.  Fun times.