Trip Time Ends

Finally, we've arrived
HOME
We are so relieved to be home again.  The girls were so excited to see their beds and their room again.  The next morning we looked outside to discover
A Jungle!
Niki spotted it from her high chair during breakfast and couldn't hold still.  She wanted to get out there.  So out we went and she just laughed delighted for half an hour.  Crazy.


Road Trip - Day 2
Carlsbad Caverns
were awesome.  Well worth the hour and a half we dragged the girls through the cave.  The pictures just don't do it justice.
That night we camped at
Guadalupe National Forest
We got some tent poles so that we could stay in the tent.  Niki's first tent experience went pretty well.  It was a little colder than we were used to so the girls kept waking up, but were easily calmed back to sleep.  We were, however, quite crammed in there.  Tyler and I agree it's time for a bigger, family-sized tent.  Especially if we need to put anything besides our sleeping bags into it with us.


Road Trip - Night 1 we stayed in
El Paso
What a nice hotel.  Too bad we weren't sticking around the next day.  The girls loved the mirrors and laughed for a good hour together on the bed.  On our way out the next morning, we stoped to overlook the urban sprawl that spans the border.  See the HUGE flag in the distance, that's Mexico all right.


Farewell Sierra Vista
And the mountains.  We miss living by the mountains.


We finally made it to the border.  We drove up to the lookout of the Coronado National Monument and hiked to the tip of the hill where we could see...
MEXICO!
Not much different from Sierra Vista, but Lily though it was exciting.