Gil's had this eclipse on his calendar for years and wanted to be in the band for the best viewing. We have a dear friend in Albuquerque that Wesley has been asking to visit so off we went.
We left the house early Friday morning, around 4am, and stopped and had breakfast at Petrified Forest National Park. The kids loved pretending to dig for fossils at the south entrance visitor center.
Not a lot of hiking trails in this park, but we ventured out on one of the few to see some petrified wood.
We made it to ABQ and found Auntie's house (what my kids call her). The next morning we walked down the block to a wonderful neighborhood park to watch the eclipse. What a cool experience.
If you're visiting Auntie, you know there's going to be cookie dough and cookie cutters. We also carved a pumpkin with her.
We drove up to the Sandia Crest to enjoy the view. We dropped in elevation a bit and did a quick hike. What a beautiful part of the country.
There was a radio tower farm at the top and Wesley was in heaven. He's interested in radio towers and thought that was the reason we were there, not the views and the mountains. There was even a bench he decided had been placed for people to sit and view the radio towers.
A huge thanks to Auntie who rearranged her house, allowed Lauren to tend to her poor terrified cat, and was run a bit ragged with our constantly on the go kids.
On the way home, we stopped by the Large Solar Array. What an interesting place. I didn't know celestial bodies gave off radiation that can be collected, analyzed, and understood. Pretty cool.
Hooray for seeing new things and visiting friends.
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