The vacation was great and it was awesome as ever. It’s always nice to be home however. Now I’m sifting through the photos and great memories. We haven’t been writing anything down, but we’ll try to put some thoughts together on the blog, so memories don’t fade away.

Everything started with Alena setting an alarm for 3:30am. The plan was to get up, get dressed, maybe eat some breakfast and pretty much get ready for the cab that will be picking us up at 4:30am to go to LaGuardia airport. I woke up at 4:29am from the call from my dad asking if we were ready.

The alarm didn’t go off. Alena changed her work day alarm to 3:30. The only problem was that it only works on weekdays. We ran out like crazy and were at the airport well ahead of the flight. We got an extra hour of sleep though.

Our first day was dedicated to exploring El Paso. We went to Chamizal National Memorial — the place where U.S. border with Mexico used to pass until Rio Grande changed its path. We also were about 100 meters from the actual Mexico border.

Everyone in the town obviously speaks Spanish. We also tried to visit a famous military base, Fort Bliss. But they called military police on us for taking pictures of the gates which was really uncalled for. So we decided we don’t need that and just left.

The town center has a bunch of museums, but it was dead quite on the weekend. Nothing really special and I don’t think this is the place I’d like to live at. The day passed quickly and we turned in early since we were very tired.

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Alena says:
December 1, 2008 @ 22:21

I am still amazed that we overslept so badly, but were able to get to the airport in time. Good thing that we packed all our bags the night before.

As for El Paso, as Danya said — the city itself is not very interesting. I, however, was excited by the fact that we were to walking on the Texas land for the first time.

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Alex says:
December 2, 2008 @ 11:34

That’s Mexican Texas, that doesn’t count!:) Next time visit the Redneck Texas, where people say “geet awf mah pruppertyi!”;)

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