Hunting Aliens in Roswell

     On our vacation out west to Santa Fe New Mexico we made a side trip to Roswell per John's request.  Aliens have always fascinated John, so we honored his request and drove to Roswell. John always said he plans on living to an age of 120 so maybe he is an extra terrestrial. He may have been looking for ancestral connections.  I have to admit I also found the Roswell Alien story interesting so I really didn't mind, Mimi and Cindy were more skeptical but they played along.

     
     We arrived in Roswell expecting to find elaborate decorations and signs about ET's and there were some but it was more subdued than we expected. There was only a block or two downtown that played up the alien incident.  I guess there were some people in town that preferred to leave that as part of history not wanting to promote it as the main reason for visiting but in reality that is the only reason we were there.

     There was a museum that documented the incident, which had some official letters that reported the incident then some others denying that this was an alien discovery.  There was a mocked up surgery room with an alien on the operating table to support the believers plus statues of aliens all around the museum, small almost cartoonish looking just as you are imagining.  There was a cafe where you could sit and have lunch with an alien.  We were hoping to get an alien burger but there were none to be found. That sounds like a missed opportunity.  I think an alien burger with extra-terrestrial sauce would be a big seller. 

     It would have been fun to visit the ranch outside Roswell where the Alien spaceship was reported to have crashed but that was not an option.  Roswell was a fun side trip but one day was enough to see everything we wanted to see.