Before I forget, there is a video and picture from Trevor’s last day of swim school for this cycle. It was Wednesday. He might get to continue in January! He has made a lot of improvement in these eight weeks. (I am behind glass, so there is really poor sound in the video)

He graduated the beginner lessons and now is called a “glider”. They are working on letting go more and working on his independence in the water.

We got home today from our trip. Saturday was not as awesome of a day as Friday. We went to see the Very Large Array (radio telescopes). We goofed our planning though, and the dishes were in their most separated configuration. They spread out over 20 miles! So I missed out on the cool pictures I was hoping for. They change every four months, so if we go at this time next year, they will all be in close.
This part of New Mexico is one of the darkest parts of the whole country. I was hoping for good star-gazing. The sky was like a gray wool blanket of thick clouds, sustained 15MPH winds, and it was only 45 degrees. BRRRR! In the middle of the night, it cleared up, but it was below freezing and still so windy. No night pictures.
I also had some kind of nausea, either car sick or elevation sick which I have never had in my life, or maybe virus. I had fever chills for the better part of the evening. Everyone else is OK and I am better today.
All that said, it was still a cool experience and we will go back.

There is one dish on the walking tour that you can see up close.

There are more. They spread them out on railroad tracks with these giant special moving rail cars.

Details

We were there just in time to see them all rotate in unison, they turned almost 180 degrees. It was awfully quiet for such a huge thing.

Facing the trail now

It was so cold to have the wind on our faces but the boys handled it well

We stopped in Pietown, NM that night and got the very last piece of pie for the whole year. They close down for the winter! It was good pie. We stayed at a little RV park there. As we were pulling in, I noticed this truck. I did a double take. Did that say Stool Bus?

Yes, it is a waste vacuum pump truck.

When you are in the poop business, I guess you need a good sense of humor.

Even the license plate. 😀

We stopped in our favorite forest on the Mogollon Rim on the drive home to see some light snow actually falling from the sky. The boys played for a while to stretch their legs. We got home just in time to beat the storms. It is pouring rain now in Chandler but there is a massive snow storm starting up north.