I'm finally getting around to blogging about our vacation. :) First we went to Albuquerque, NM so that we could visit the Bandera Volcano and Ice Cave. After we arrived at our hotel room, the boys swam and had the complimentary dinner that was offered at the hotel. Then, we got them settled down with a good movie and Jimmy and I left and went to a restaurant to have dinner that we had seen on the Foodnetwork's show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. It was in a sketchy part of downtown, located behind a bowling alley, but the food was AMAZING! We started with an appetizer of shrimp cocktail (this was unlike any shrimp cocktail we had ever eaten) and then Jimmy had a salmon dish and I had duck enchiladas. I just can't fully describe just how amazing the food was!
The next morning, we checked out of our hotel and went to see the Bandera Volcano and the Ice Cave. We had to hike up a mountain (not too bad, and the trail was actually a dirt road) to see the mouth of the volcano. It was breathtaking and quite amazing. Then, we hiked down and took another short hike the other direction to see the Ice Cave. It was quite something to start down the stairs to the Ice Cave and have it sweltering hot at the entrance, but start to feel the cool air as we descended. The hand rail got cooler and cooler as we descended and the cool air felt so good on our sweaty bodies. By the time we reached the bottom and stood on the deck and looked out at the ice, we were actually getting cold since the temperature at the bottom never gets above 31 degrees even in the summer. Very, very cool experience!
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