with sam and katie in front of our homestead

with sam and katie in front of our homestead
Originally uploaded by josefina la pelirroja.

mole friends

mole friends
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shelby, rosie, me, elsa, ana elsa, douglas, and sam (photo taken by kelsey-- another mole friend)

ana elsa and sam

ana elsa and sam
Originally uploaded by josefina la pelirroja.

...at the mole festival last weekend. isn't she beautiful!!

i was really excited about 5 different types of mole.... until i realized that it was all served with chicken.

carlsbad

carlsbad
Originally uploaded by josefina la pelirroja.

we made it to carlsbad cavern!! 750 feet below the surface-- and the "big room" has as much floor space as 14 football (americano) fields! it was a cool 55 degrees below and we spent a couple hours down there. then, at dusk, we sat at the cave entrance and watched as a colony of 250,000 mexican free-tail bats flew out for their night of insect-eating. they fly out in a counter-clockwise spiral because they're not strong enough to fly straight up-- so it looks like a bat tornado.

hiking with laura

hiking with laura
Originally uploaded by josefina la pelirroja.

laura (a friend from work), rich (her boyfriend), and i went on a camping trip to the guadalupe mountins-- about 2 hours east of el paso. the mountains are what's left of a 250 million year old coral reef and they jut out of the desert like a huge wall. guadalupe peak is the highest point in texas. very impressive.