Bald Eagle

If you click on the pic to make it bigger, you can see an eagle on top of the post.

Our 11 hour (normally 9 hour) drive to Colorado from Oklahoma was quite an adventure (in a good way). 

We've had bad adventures before which involved witnessing a semi truck clip a farm truck in front of us, causing it to flip off the road, killing the driver, and then staying to report to the police and seeing the widow come and see her husband's body dead.  This past experience on a drive from Oklahoma to Colorado a few years ago is burned into at least 4 of our memories (I don't think Benaiah and Evelyn would remember it).  Anyway, that memory was also in a drive right before Christmas.  This time we did not experience anything so horrific. 

This time there were road closures we had to go around because of storms, which caused us to go the scenic route.  And this truly was a scenic route.  We spent more time in New Mexico than we ever had before on a drive to CO from OK.  We ended up going west into New Mexico instead of North through the Texas panhandle, through NM for only an hour, then into Colorado.  That route, which we normally travel, was closed and many were stuck in Clayton, NM or other places in Texas and NM, not able to get to their destination. 

Since we didn't really feel like sleeping in our truck that night nor dealing with the snow storm that was coming the next day (the previous one left 15-20 foot snow drifts, which caused the closures), we planned a different route early on.  Benefits to having a pilot for a husband are that he thinks about these things way ahead of time and was also able to call the weather shop on base to find out when the next storm was moving in. 

We ended up driving through beautiful NM prairie and then suddenly a mesa (butte?) was in front of us and we got to drive up and on top of it, where there was a beautiful little town called Masquero and a humble village (which is what they called themselves) called Roy.  The kids were great, already seasoned travelers, plus we found JB and Benaiah's missing Leappad before we left on this trip (thank you God!) and we got to see a bald eagle (in the picture above).  Thank you, Lord, for your many blessings!!