Slide still doesn't work!

Well, they had the Magic Bus all day and the slide still doesn't work. The part the first mobile guy broke seems to be the trouble and so, tomorrow, the repair guys will take another stab at it. The insurance has already said they won't pay for that part as it was broken by a repair guy! Somebody broke it! SO stupid!! So now, we will be contacting the insurance ourselves, since THEY sent out this guy!!! Also, we are gonna call that guy (who was so very, very sorry and now we know why!) and tell him it's on him! And he can collect from Easy Care, if he can. Meanwhile, another $200 out the door! AND, they are not optimistic about replacing the carpet.....MAYBE they can repair the rips (but I doubt it)

To occupy our time, we went to White Sands National Monument and the Space History Museum in Alamogordo, NM. But first, we drove thru our first sand storm!(first two pics) It was windy, windy and blowing sand.....we were brave, tho (and a little scared) White Sands was pretty amazing. The sand dunes lie in the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand that has engulfed 275 miles of desert. They are brilliant white and ever changing. We tried to look at them without sunglasses, but couldn't.....it actually hurt our eyes! They had horseback riding trails and backcountry camping....NOT for us!! There was already a sand storm happening and I could just see a total white out and being out there....NOPE!! The dunes also sit in the White Sands Missile Range and they close the park now and again to blast away at stuff.
After that, we took off for the Space Museum a few miles out of Alomogordo. Pretty interesting with lots of models showing capsules and such, plus video of astronauts experiencing weightlessness. Man! I'd love to do that!! It just looked like a blast!! There was an IMAX theater, but it was too pricy and we had to scoot back because they were gonna close and we wanted our Magic Bus for the night. Pleeeaaase don't make us stay in a hotel with Miss Lisa!!! :o)