Larry and the Skylab toilet at the Space museum in Alamogordo

 Walking around the space park

 Afternoon at white Sands National Monument

 On the boardwalk looking at the sand duens

We started our morning at the Space Mueum in Alamogordo.  They have 4 floors of exhibits.  Larry was excited to see the Nike Ajax out in the space park.  He worked in Niagara Falls one summer on the facility to change over to the Hercules.  He enjoyed the display on the Skylab also.  We bought tickets for the Imax show, Everest, in their dome Imax Theater.  Very different but it worked well for this Imax movie.  After lunch in a park that had a small train and was next to the Alamogordo Zoo, we drove on to White Sands National Monument.  There were lots of people at the end of the road in the heart of the dunes picniking and sledding down the dunes.  It looked like lots of fun.   It was a very busy place for a Sunday.  We drove the Bataan March Memorial Highway to Las Cruses.  We met  a young soldier in the Hampton Inn who had come from Parker Colorado to march with some others to remember the Bataan March.  It is a 26 mile marathon walk and starts at the White Sands Missile Range.  They raise money for the memorial to the soldiers who died on this march during WW2.