Sand Sledding

On our way through New Mexico we stopped at White Sands National Monument, it turned out to be one of our favorite stops.
This is pretty much what it looked like, sand dunes with a bit of vegetation with pretty blue mountains in the background. Not what I expected from NM!
We stopped to take a hike, pulled off our shoes (or at least I did) and buried our toes in the sand.

It looked like snow and we even saw some snow on the ground. There is a make shift path that we followed --sort of-- and we saw lots of different animal tracks. Sometimes we saw what looked like rock walls (like this one) except they would crumble if you tried to climb them. Unfortunately it's hard to get a family shot when there's no one around, so we have lots of kid-pictures! After having a good look around and exploring, we headed back to the RV to drive further on, into the hills better for sledding. We bought/rented (they have some deal...?) a sled before hand and also blew up another blow up sled we brought along. We were ready to go.

It was lots of fun and you went pretty fast.

I ended up taking a tumble and doing a backwards somersault down the hill, getting sand in my hair and down my back, but we had a great time anyway!

Kik kept trying to get his blow up sled to work, but it didn't slide. It is harder climbing up sand hills then snow hills, because it doesn't stick together, it just slides down.

The BFG and I tried racing down the hill by rolling. He won, but it was lots of fun and you go really fast. Plus you don't have to carry a sled back up!

We snapped the shot below at the top of the hill, which turned out really well.

Altogether we had a great time at White Sands, but who knows if we'll get back to New Mexico, it's not high on our list!

XO~Toley