Amazing things keep happening

I'm writing this from the Best Western Carlsbad, where the Blue Cactus Lounge is hopping on a Friday night (there's a bouncer and girls in the parking lot who are not staying here dressed to go Out with a capital "O"). Regardless, it ain't the Lodge at Cloudcroft, that's for sure, but it'll do for the night.

Today, we went to Carlsbad Caverns. We missed much of the caverns because we had to stop at a brewpub in Artesia to sample every beer they had. Kris says this is what we'll look like in Hell:



Nevertheless, we got the chance to see 300,000 bats fly out of a cave for the nightly feeding. With the exception of the overly chatty softball team behind us, we could hear nothing but bats' wings and crickets.