Trip to Ruidoso

Ruidoso, New Mexico Mountains !!! Just Beautiful !!!

Thursday July 3rd Granny, PaPa, Mom, LaShae, D'Nae, Rhaeden, Maegen and myself headed to Ruidoso, New Mexico for the weekend. Mike and Dad were going to join us on Friday after they got off of work. For you who do not know...I LOVE RUIDOSO !!! We rented a three bedroom three bath house with a pool table and it was just very relaxing. Forget hotels...rent a house !!! The trip was NOT without complications from the very beginning. Mom, Rhaeden, Granny and PaPa stopped in Brownfield to pick up LaShae (they were in PaPa's pick-up). Guess what happened next....It started POURING down rain !!! So between Brownfield and Plains Mom and LaShae had to get out and put a tarp over their luggage. I wasn't but about 15 minutes behind them so at Plains we stopped, yet again, to put their luggage in my suburban, still in the rain...The rain finally subsided and we eventually made it to Ruidoso !!! Yeah !!!

On Friday morning after breakfast PaPa unfortunately started getting sick. So he and Granny stayed at the house while the rest of us went and played Put-Put golf, rode the go carts and of course the bumper boats. FYI...the bumper boats spray water !!! So be sure and empty your pockets BEFORE you get on them !!! Somehow I think Mom came up on the short end of the stick this round. D'Nae came out the driest (her hair was barely wet) apparently her boat had the best gun on it !!! Oh yeah...I had to miss the bumper boats and hold the drinks, purses and camera while everyone else had all the fun !!

Soaking wet after the bumper boats !!!

After we went to the house and everyone took another shower and cleaned up. LaShae took PaPa riding around while the rest of us went shopping. We met back at the house and cooked steaks and hamburgers on the grill and about halfway thru getting it prepared Mike and Dad showed up. Just in time to eat...imagine that huh?

Saturday morning PaPa was still feeling sick so Dad and Granny stayed with him while the rest of us went to the horse races. It was just a beautiful day to go to the races. Their was a slight cool breeze and it wasn't too hot. By mid afternoon PaPa was feeling better so they took off on another trip just touring Ruidoso and finding some amazingly beautiful homes. This time Granny was the one wanting to get her feet on flat ground. Dad took them to the top of a mountain on a very steep winding road.

On Sunday it was time to pack and head home. On the way out of town we stopped at the museum first. The next stop would be a fruit stand to get some cherry cider !!! My favorite !!!

I have made a slide show of some of the things that we did. There was just too many pictures to put them on here one at a time. There are a few pictures of some deer that came up right up to the house. It was just amazing to stand on the porch or look out a window and see 8 to 10 deer just a few feet from you.

Sorry...but I don't know how to put a slide show into the blog itself so you will have to scroll down to the bottom of the page. I apologize for the inconvenience !!!!