There are aliens among us...

So, Brandon's game last Saturday was at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico, home of the famous 1947 Roswell UFO incident/crash. So, we went on an alien adventure and although we didn't see any 'real' aliens or even any live 'alien impersonators' (hmmm....not sure that word really works in that sense) we had a great time. It was a very long drive, they lost, and an even longer drive home (although we did decide to stop on the way and sleep.

I would like to give a special thanks to all who helped us out so we could make this trip...Beaudoins, Mom & Paul, Whitfields, Ericksons and L'Heureux's!!!!!!!

It was rather interesting to see the entire town with its 'alien theme'. Most all of the storefronts were painted with some type of 'alien' scene. We stopped at the local Wal-Mart only to find this on the front of the building...


...and Heather and her friend Marlee found this inside...
"UFO H2O" who would have thought?

We drove by the local McDonald's, which is designed like a space ship (pretty cool)


We tried to visit the UFO Museum Research Center but they were closed when we got there. We did take a few fun pictures nearby. Unfortunately most of these displays were inside the front windows of the little shops nearby and there was a bad glare from the sun but it's the best we could get since we couldn't get in to the museum.

Here's the museum sign with a view of one of the street lights that line this main downtown area.


Brandon and cousin, Carl



The Coke machine we walked by on the street corner


One of the storefronts


Heather and Marlee in one of the shops we visited, pictured with the alien displaying the local newspaper from the 1947 incident.


The gang...


I got some great photos of Brandon playing this week and we made a few other stops on the way home. All-in-all it was a nice relaxing, fun weekend. We had Heather and Marlee on the way there and added Brandon and Carl on the way home. We spent the night in a hotel Friday and Saturday evenings and even got to spend a little time with our friend Brent, who was able to make the short drive up from his new/temporary home to attend the game and join us for dinner. It was great to see him. Here are some other random photos from our weekend trip.