Day 2: Oklahoma City to Albuquerque

Day 2's wake up came at the late hour of 6am.  We were able to get everyone readied, fed and out the door pretty early and still in pretty good moods.

We had hoped to stop at Blessed Mary's in Groom, Texas for lunch.  From what I have read it is a little diner type spot with no prices or cash register.  You just pay what you can and any profits go to charity.  We found it, but it was closed.  So we kind of went to the opposite.



There were animal heads all over the walls, waitresses dressed as cowgirls, a shooting range and a candy counter.

It was perfect, ridiculous, but perfect. {those are $3 suckers they are holding, but we all know the real suckers are not pictured}



We stopped at the Blue Hole in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.  It is a natural spring with crystal clear blue water that goes down for 80 feet.  There were a lot of people just jumping off the diving platform and hoping right back out, because although it was hot outside the water stays at about 60F so it is rather "refreshing".

We just looked, made sure nobody fell in and opted for a Dairy Queen in town to cool us down.

We made it to Albuquerque with enough time to go into old town for dinner and to walk around.  What a neat little area, and best of all it was't hot!

They even had some local kids performing some Native American dances.  This little boy is 6, so it was neat for the boys to see him doing something like this, being that Walker and he are the same age.

The leader kept making a point for everyone to applaud because it had taken him a long time to learn the minute long dance. :)



We returned to the hotel, tucked ourselves in the ridiculously comfortable beds and everyone fell asleep quickly.