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So, I'm back. New Mexico was awesome!!!!!! I didn't end up stepping into Mexico so I can still only say I've been to 2 countries. But I saw Mexico across the street when we were in El Paso. Anyway.
Some things I tried for the first time were Mexican food, and driving a stick-shift. One of our friends has a number of vehicles, one of them being an old manual truck, and he taught me to drive it in the middle of the desert. It was fun. And the Mexican food was better than I expected. My only prior experience was how icky New England "Mexican" food looks and smells (ewww) so I was glad when authentic Mexican food turned out to be better. Luckily I didn't have to try some of the ickier looking stuff because of being a vegetarian. Things that were very good: sour cream enchilada, fajita, sopopillas, vegetarian biscotchitos. Our friends were nice and got vegetarian taco "meat" to put in tacos that they made and they were good. The salsa was hot. My friend would always be like, "No, no, this one is mild," because she's used to it and I would try it and go O_O.
The desert was awesome. When we were flying over Texas I was astounded at how much uninhabited space there was and how flat it was. It's FLAT. It looked like a deserty gameboard from up high. And then we got there and it was so cool. There were always mountains in the distance. And everything was, yeah, flat. And the houses were so unfamiliar because they were made of adobe and stuff. We went over the mountains several times and it was really great and interesting because up high in the mountains it looks like upstate New York because it's all heavily forested with pine and not deserty at all and cold. We saw White Sands national park(?) which was awesome. All you can see is endless white sand dunes, pure and dazzlingly white. We went at night once and slid down the huge dunes on a sled.
New Mexico is a really random place for some of the things I got, too. We went to this one café lunch place and they had shelves and shelves of Korean imports with cute little characters all over them. So I bought a bunch of journals and stationery and things from there. Also I got Turkish Delight!!!!!!!!!! Ever since I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe I wanted to try it. I saw it in the International Delight Café. It's good. It's interesting. I think it might be better flavored. There were some flavored boxes but I wanted to get the original. Very weird but yum.
But it's not so random for some of the other things I got like a lot of turquoise (preeettttyyyyy) and some Mexicanlike things and southwest pattern things.
Then North Carolina was good too. It was laid back because we only stayed for two nights and one day. With my cousin and her husband. They're twenty-seven or twenty-eight and a lot a lot of fun. They introduced my mom and I to the most addictive game in the world, called World of Warcraft. I also played Dance Dance Revolution. Fun. :)
It was a great trip. I literally took *checks* 792 pictures.
Some things I tried for the first time were Mexican food, and driving a stick-shift. One of our friends has a number of vehicles, one of them being an old manual truck, and he taught me to drive it in the middle of the desert. It was fun. And the Mexican food was better than I expected. My only prior experience was how icky New England "Mexican" food looks and smells (ewww) so I was glad when authentic Mexican food turned out to be better. Luckily I didn't have to try some of the ickier looking stuff because of being a vegetarian. Things that were very good: sour cream enchilada, fajita, sopopillas, vegetarian biscotchitos. Our friends were nice and got vegetarian taco "meat" to put in tacos that they made and they were good. The salsa was hot. My friend would always be like, "No, no, this one is mild," because she's used to it and I would try it and go O_O.
The desert was awesome. When we were flying over Texas I was astounded at how much uninhabited space there was and how flat it was. It's FLAT. It looked like a deserty gameboard from up high. And then we got there and it was so cool. There were always mountains in the distance. And everything was, yeah, flat. And the houses were so unfamiliar because they were made of adobe and stuff. We went over the mountains several times and it was really great and interesting because up high in the mountains it looks like upstate New York because it's all heavily forested with pine and not deserty at all and cold. We saw White Sands national park(?) which was awesome. All you can see is endless white sand dunes, pure and dazzlingly white. We went at night once and slid down the huge dunes on a sled.
New Mexico is a really random place for some of the things I got, too. We went to this one café lunch place and they had shelves and shelves of Korean imports with cute little characters all over them. So I bought a bunch of journals and stationery and things from there. Also I got Turkish Delight!!!!!!!!!! Ever since I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe I wanted to try it. I saw it in the International Delight Café. It's good. It's interesting. I think it might be better flavored. There were some flavored boxes but I wanted to get the original. Very weird but yum.
But it's not so random for some of the other things I got like a lot of turquoise (preeettttyyyyy) and some Mexicanlike things and southwest pattern things.
Then North Carolina was good too. It was laid back because we only stayed for two nights and one day. With my cousin and her husband. They're twenty-seven or twenty-eight and a lot a lot of fun. They introduced my mom and I to the most addictive game in the world, called World of Warcraft. I also played Dance Dance Revolution. Fun. :)
It was a great trip. I literally took *checks* 792 pictures.
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