Basketball Jones

We started off our day with the Portland Trailblazers and Phoenix Suns (Devin Booker, Tyler Ulis, Marquese Chriss, and Dragan Bender). Like Friday's Laker game, there was an abundance of Phoenix fans in the Cox Pavilion.

Ball Is Life

This summer, J's first foray into high school basketball has been playing up with the F/S team as one of their starting guards. And M has been rehabbing his surgically-repaired Achilles' tendon - he's disappointed that playing with the summer JV team was off the table, but hopes to be back on the court for the regular season in November. At our house, ball takes up a lot of our life, indeed!

As soon as we realized that there were no F/S games on the calendar during the first weekend of the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, we bought our tickets and booked a hotel room right away. We even convinced some friends to join us for the quick trip...

Got Opinions?

It has taken me a little while to get this recap written up, but I can backdate the blog so it doesn't appear to be quite as late - haha! Here are the family's thoughts on our most recent Saiki-delic road trip...

What are some of your favorite things that we saw or did on this trip (top 3)?

M / R: Sledding at White Sands, going to Carlsbad Caverns, and the Pima Air & Space Museum

J: White Sands, Carlsbad Caverns, and the Cubs game

Me: Carlsbad Caverns, getting passport stamps from a new region, and seeing parts of the country we've never been to before

Physics Is Fun

Hurry up and wait. That's what we did this chilly (below-freezing!) morning to get in line for the Trinity Site Open House. I had been told that the queue to get through the Stallion Gate Entrance of the White Sands Missile Range could get quite long, so we arrived around 7:15AM for the 8:00AM opening.

 

Guesstimating there were ~25-30 cars ahead of us

On a Mission

When I was mapping out our itinerary for this trip, the schedule for today was flexible. We could either:

• Visit the remnants of two frontier-era Army outposts, Fort Selden and Fort Craig, as well as a site along the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, the Royal Road of the Interior Lands, which stretched from Santa Fe, NM down to Mexico City. 

Or...

• Visit one more NPS unit, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

Because my family humors me (and they have my completist tendencies, too!), we chose the latter.

Flying Saucers

Carlsbad, NM is only about an hour or so away from Roswell. Being a nerdy geek (is that redundant?!), of course I had to visit! So, our very first stop this morning was the International UFO Museum and Research Center.