By way of special requests for more pictures…

I had Friday off of work, so Liz and I decided to take the kids over to Petroglyph National Monument to show them the ancient graffiti all over the volcanic rocks on the west side of the Rio Grand in Albuquerque.  The kids had a blast playing mountain goat on the large rocks.

I also got talked into going with the scouts on an overnight backpacking trip as Isaac’s hiking buddy this weekend.  The plan was to hike in two miles, eat and sleep, them hike to the top of the canyon to the wreckage of a TWA airline that crashed into the mountain in the 1950s before heading back to the trailhead.  Unlike almost every other scout trip I’ve gone on, this one went mostly to plan.