A beautiful morning in Roswell greeted us yesterday. 
Joe was able to go for a 4 mile run while the boys slept in a bit. Seamus managed to crack his head on the side of the bed the night before and had a nice big lump!
After breakfast we rolled into downtown Roswell and checked out the UFO Museum. Very interesting place to see! And it was packed! We need to watch the 1994 movie Roswell that depicts what happened in 1947. The boys have been taking pics too. I’ll upload their memories when we get home!
After picking up some alien gear we headed to Carlsbad to check out the Caverns. Max was able to get us all in with his 4th Grade National Parks pass. They do a really neat thing with that and the rangers mostly interact with the kids making them feel like they’re taking us on an amazing trip! Lots of oil wells and pecan trees as we drove south!
It was 100 degrees on the surface when we arrived at the Park.
We did the self-guided tour with some audio assistance and headed down into the caverns. The temperatures immediately dropped to about 50-60 degrees and it was very dark and wet. The smell of bat gano permeated the air; the bats leave the cave every night and fly about. We didn’t have time to see that but wish we could have! It was beautiful but very steep and slippery to walk. Only one of us fell; yep, me. I slipped and went down on my knee. No big deal! We saw the Bottomless Pit, the Fairy Gardens, and many more amazing stalagmites and stalactites decorating this immense cavern that was discovered by a 16 year old in 1926.
The entire hike took us about 2 1/2 hours and was so worth it! We left much later than anticipated but headed back to Roswell for dinner before driving a very long 3 hours through storms to Albuquerque where we stopped for the night. On the way we saw a white fox and an owl fly over us too! Tomorrow we head into Arizona and toward the Grand Canyon 😍. Here are a few pictures of the McDonalds in Roswell!!
Kennedy Family Travels 