Blog 1 by Eli G

My summer in 2016 was probably the best summer of my life. Before summer officially started, I signed up to play summer ball with the baseball team. That's how my summer started out. I played for about 2 weeks before going on vacation. This is when the most fun besides baseball happened. We traveled all the way to New Mexico to stay for about a week. The trip to there took about 2 days. We stopped to sleep one night in Brownfield, Texas which is outside of Lubbock, Texas. After we made it to Alamogordo, we just kind of checked things out around the house and around the town. It is beautiful out west in southern New Mexico where we stayed. There are many places you can visit out there. We spent a couple days at White Sands at the White Sands National Monument. You climb huge sand dunes and you can watch and listen to the thrilling sound of jets flying over every few minutes from the Holloman Air force Base. We even drove to Las Cruces which is a little bit west of where we were staying. We got to see the Organ Mountains and then go back to the house. On our way back to Arkansas, we stopped in Waco, Texas to visit the Magnolia gift shop from the show Fixer Upper.