TUESDAY - DAY 2

After a long sweaty night, we got ready for the water slide and pool, which opened at 10. Well, sort of. It was still warm in the room, and we decided we’d call, cause the water park wasn’t open yet like it was supposed to be. The phone didn’t work, so I went to the front office. They informed us that only the pool opens at 10, the waterslide opens at 1pm, and the man who checked us in should have told us. I told him the phones didn’t work. He said yes, he knew. He’d only gotten one at the front desk yesterday. (DUH???) I asked why there wasn’t hot water, and he said because they were working on it. I asked why we weren’t told at check in, and he said he didn’t know, but we should have been told. I said, “In other words, we paid $95 for a bed, no hot water, a pool, no air conditioning, and no water slide?” And he said yes. He would knock $20 off of our bill. I said I’d get back with him.

Long story short, Angie went and raised hell, and we ended up getting all but $40 back. What was a clincher for her, he was the one that checked us in and told her all the crap about the water slide, etc. She’d paid with a debit card or we would have had more pull. Oh well, live and learn. We headed back to Carlsbad Caverns so we could do the "natural entrance" into the cave, and Morgan needed to finish her badge work for her National Junior Park Ranger program.

After that, we decided we'd had enough of CarlsBAD (the city), and we headed for a place that would make more sense to us...... ROSWELL. Morgan was excited, cause she always wanted to meet an Alien. (She marches to a different drummer) We had a ball. We went shopping, and went to a winery (yes, there will be a wine tasting party), and we went to a store called “the Alien Zone”. There were all kinds of neat things there. They had an “Area 51” that allowed you to enter their special area. For $10 for the four of us to enter, so in we went. Here are just a couple of pictures of what happened. There will be no further explanation or description of what happened, cause we cannot tell for fear of our lives.

We decided after that hilarious experience that it was time to get to more normal activities. We headed for Ruidoso.

Long story short, Angie used Pricefinder.com or whatever it’s called, and we got a room. Due to a mix up in locations and info, we ended up in Ruidoso Downs at the DAYS Inn. We’d paid for what we thought was a double room, but it ended up being a king size, and no changes allowed. I want to say right now, that Angie has never had trouble like this before, so we were again surprised at the problem. At least it had air conditioning and hot water. I called Gerry W., we played phone tag, and ended up not seeing each other . We ate dinner at K-Bob’s steak house, ok, but reminded me of Bonanza Steak House…. But for 1 chicken fried steak with fries and salad, one sirloin with salad, and one baked potato, and four teas, it was $45. That was ridiculous. Whatever, off we go for some much needed sleep.
These are pix we took on our way to Ruidoso. It was so pretty on the way.