What have we been doing?

Our latest adventure has definitely been a learning experience. As many followers know, both our kids are taking German as thier foreign language. The German teacher, Frau Bell, takes a group of her students to Germany to allow them to experience the culture and the language. In cooperation with contacts she has made there, every other year a group of German students come here. This is the first year that our family has had opportunity to be involved in the welcoming of the Germans here in our home town. Unfortunately we were unable to actually host a student because of our "almost done" remodeling, but, through offering help driving, feeding, and collecting things for the German students we were able to participate in many of thier activities.
Among some of the things done were Carlsbad Caverns and the Living Desert in Carlsbad. We also went to Lincoln (historic place tied to Billy The Kid) and Valley of Fires (similar to Craters of the Moon in Idaho). We introduced them to White Sands National Park. Of course it wouldn't be a trip to Roswell without a visit to the UFO museum and a walk down main street. And, apparently the Germans don't celebrate Thanksgiving so through donations of food there was a traditional turkey dinner given to them. If I were to go into detail about every activity, this post would be a small novella so over the next week(ish) I will try and get information on each avtivity on the blog. Stay tuned---