Very Deceptive.....

The desert can be very deceptive.  You drive along a deserted concrete road and decide to turn around on the sand that looks like it has tons and tons of tire tracks on it...only to discover, hmm...probably those tracks belong to atvs and dune buggies...since we are sinking like a ship!

 As we looked at eachother and got out of the car to survey how badly we were stuck....we were in the desert!  Nowhere near AAA!  Chris tried shoving bushes, some rocks, anything to give us some traction with no avail!  Then suddenly, from across the horizon comes this red angel burning over the top of the dunes:

 1st attempt.

 Kids are so resilliant, aren't they?  Their thoughts: 'sweet! more time to play in the sand!'

 Dune Buggyy drivers brother showed up in his motor home to give a hand.

 Then the border patrol showed up to join the fun {Chris thought he was going to get in trouble for ripping out the local shrubs that he shoved under the tires for traction....umm...}

 And...they're off!!

 Success!

Everyone was terribly sweet....we felt terribly dumb.  Had a nice chat with the guard, after some friendly banter about how the sand looks harder than it was and there were all those tire tracks so why wouldn't we think we could turn around?  He looks at me and smiles and this is how the rest of the conversation goes:

Border Patrol (BP): 'So, where are you from?'

Me: 'Oh, we are from Canada'.

BP: 'Stick to the pavement'

...and then he walks away, gets on his quad and takes off.

One final show of how dumb I felt with the BP, as we were chatting {before he took off}, i am looking around and i say out loud 'you know, i was around here and took off my shoes, and i don't see them anymore'  He looks around and points to my kids crocs and says ' that them?'  {umm...those are like half my size...} "no, those belong to my kids".......

So, now we have buried our car AND somehow lost my shoes....ALL in front of the BP guy....der.

By chance, i look over at isaac and say 'hey, you by chance bury my shoes??'

Little imp looks up and says yes, proceeds to walk over to 2 lumps in the sand that i can't help but think look like 2 breasts as he squeezes the two mounds and says 'yup...right here'

 BP looks at me and gets his helmet on, no doubt thinking 'dumb tourists'.......

BUT WHAT AN ADVENTURE!!!