1. The VAN....um.....what was purple is now white.
You see.....our van ran into some kind of debree for those of you who don't remember. We found out on Wednesday that our fan had a cracked gas tank. Should I say that our van is really not worth that much.....through a lot of prayer, research, and thought we are now the proud owners of a used Chevy uplander. We will have pictures of our new van that has much style we think....at a later date. But we wanted you all to know that the purple van is gone and we have stepped into the world of electronic buttons and DVD players in an automobile....it has pretty much everything we wanted in a van. For those of you who aren't van lovers I would like to let you know I love my van!!!! Through interesting circumstances we are here in Carlsbad, NM until Monday afternoon. The details will follow.
2. School....didn't classes start on Monday.
Yeah....I know that is what you guys were thinking....but didn't I say in my last blog that it always turns out into something better. Well this is defiantly one of those times. At the institute they have group classes and private classes....and you can take private classes but for a considerable amount more. So because the car got wrecked, and we couldn't make it down there in time....I am going to have a private teacher for the first three weeks of class and then I will join the group class at the end of the three weeks for the next 8 weeks of classes. For the same price as what I would have paid for the group rate....that is right....I am so excited. I get to learn one on one for the first three weeks.....I am so excited, the school is being so great to us, and we are so grateful to God for all of this.
3. Now for what are we doing in Carlsbad, NM....this is going to take time and an extra outline
a. If you ever breakdown in Carlsbad, NM and you have to find a hotel to stay in we would not like to recommend the MOTEL 6.....take that down and store that in your long term memory. However we are on our third Hotel sense we got here, and we like the Days Inn, but we are really impressed with the Continental Inn, large spacious rooms, and cheap I might add with donuts. So if you are ever going to stay in Carlsbad....you might want to check it out.
b. I would like to paint you a picture of the town we are stranded in until Monday afternoon. The blog is called a day in the life of the McAdam's....this portion is going to include.....in Carlsbad , NM. Ok so all of you who feel like you are deprived of trends and things that take so long to get where you are at....please visit here. This is town of 30,000 people and we made the mistake at staying in a hotel that doesn't serve a continental breakfast.....we drove the entire length of town find a place to eat breakfast, and there was only one that we could find. Yes, Denny's is the only place we could find to eat breakfast this morning.....as we drove through the L shaped parking lot there was not a parking space to be found. We had to park across the street in another parking lot just to eat at the Denny's. When we walked into the Denny's we were asked our names, and told to wait till they called our names......that is right people....you heard it. There was a WAIT at Denny's. We could barely contain ourselves....however we must say it was the best service we have ever had at Denny's. Our assumption was that it must have been new, just opened, we were wrong it's been there forever. What do you think of that? What would you do if Denny's was the best breakfast in town? We left Denny's went to a laundry mat did some laundry and then drove around town to see what we could do. We found the local theater....which was playing three movies....that's right three movies. There is only one theater in town and you get to pick from three movies. That is next....what was fun in Carlsbad.
4. What we did that was fun in Carlsbad so far.
a. We ate at a scary restaurant called Happy's and if you drove by you would have thought it was closed, except it was the only restaurant in walking distance from our hotel and we had no car at the time. We chalked it up as a fun adventure.
b. We were on the waiting list at Denny's
c. We went to the Carlsbad Cavern's which actually was really amazing. We walked 800 ft. underground in a cave, and the kids loved it until they were so tired from walking. We told Judah that it was kinda like where Batman lives. He was really excited. It was about an one mile and a quarter walk which took us 2 hours with the kids. Fun and great......pictures....as you can see. Our first really cool out and about family experience.
d. Next we did see a movie at the local theater....however we have discovered that there is no liquor stores....nor bars in town that we could find. Which I think is amazing and great!!! A local told us there were three....and that was all. Needless to say the local movie theater is all there is to do on the weekend. We haven't even seen a put put, or a bowling alley....nothing like that. Crazy. I say all this to let you know why there were so many people at the theater. They scheduled all three movies at the same time, and what else is there to do in town but watch a movie. It is a choice between that and renting....there was a drive in, but no kids movies were playing. So we stood in line for about 15 min to get our tickets, and headed in. Once you entered the theater it was amazingly hilarious....it is everything you have seen in a theater about 10 years ago, and they also have adapted the unmade bed theory....why clean it if it's just going to get messy again. We were walking over tubs of half eaten popcorn, and wrappers cups.....interestingly hilarious.We really liked the movie, and the kids did too. It was very imaginative.
Well that's it for now. Thanks for reading I hope all is going well for all of you we will keep posting blogs as we go. I hope to hear from you all very soon.
The McAdams
This is quite possibly the funniest thing ever!!!!
Mother Nature??????
Nicole & Alyx
Cave Formations
Sounds like you guys are having an intresting adventure with this whole trip!
May you guys be blessed!
Love all of you!
~Kelli
Sounds like you guys are having an intresting adventure with this whole trip!
May you guys be blessed!
Love all of you!
~Kelli