~Snow and White Sands~

So the day after we visited the Caverns we had an interesting driving day over to Alamogordo.   Cloudcroft is a ski area that we drove through.

The scenery was amazing and we stopped several times to look at the view. This was a beautiful way to travel from the east BUT don't try this with an RV from the west.  We know we wouldn't have made it up.  From the east it is ALL downhill!!!   And yes......we definitely did smell our brakes!!!!!

This is the cute town of Cloudcroft.

And here is the SNOW!

WHEW!!!

So.....yesterday we had the most INCREDIBLE day!!!  The kids were SO excited about visiting White Sands.

We began our day at the Adobe style Visitor Center where we got the boys their Jnr Ranger Books and watched a movie on the park.  We did an 8 mile loop through the park just taking in the beauty of the sands!

It really does look like snow - this is the road that we drove on!

Then......we found a spot where we parked our van and began our FUN!!!

The owner of our campground in Alamogordo was SO sweet to us and let us borrow 2 saucers so we didn`t need to rent them.  We ALL had such a blast sledding down the hill.   Not so much fun climbing back up tho!!!

The weather was just perfect and we just could not get enough of the beautiful, white, sugar like sand.

Lunch break!!!   After all that sledding we needed some nourishment!!  Look at these cute picnic spots!

Back to the sand for some more fun!

These Soaptree Yucca plants are everywhere and are so adaptable in the winds and sand.

We enjoyed a nice walk along the boardwalk.......

enjoyed making ``sand angels``......

and then we went on a hike through the sands - it was SO cool!!   Just as well there were markers showing us where to go as we really would have lost our way.

the ``sand angel``.

This ranger was very strict and checked every page of the book!!   BUT.....another badge for the boys, so they were pumped!

If you have not been to White Sands - you just MUST go there - you have to see it to believe it!!