Monday, March 13, 2006
Roswell is Out of This World!
Okay, the truth is Roswell is incredibly cheesy, but it's a good kind of cheesy.
The town seems pretty divided into camps of folks who love the whole alien theme (and of these there are the pro and anti aliens), and the folks who seem to be fed completely up with all the ET bruhaha and refuse to even discuss it. I was surprised to find that the town's sign proclaimed it to be the dairy capital of the world and made no mention at all of UFOs or aliens. (Note the sign to the left of the city sign...seems to be advocating that we should BEGIN speeding?!)
We spent a day walking up and down the main street in Roswell and visiting some of the stores and the UFO Museum. I think things are a lot more lively here during the time of the Alien Festivals...things really had the feel of being "off season" while we were there. I did, however, run into this one alien on the street, and we were able to exchange the universal sign for Peace! Other than that, we had very little success at communicating!
We also visited The Nut House Pecan Company, where they were nice enough to show us how pecans are shelled....we'd wondered how that happened. It was noisy with the all the machinery that cracked and strained the nuts. Then the shelled pecans were sent by conveyor belt to these ladies whose job it was to hand-pick all the small pieces of shells out of the pecans! The ladies there were so nice, but I sure wouldn't want to have their jobs. Next time you wonder why shelled pecans cost so much, just think about all the labor that goes into processing them.
The town seems pretty divided into camps of folks who love the whole alien theme (and of these there are the pro and anti aliens), and the folks who seem to be fed completely up with all the ET bruhaha and refuse to even discuss it. I was surprised to find that the town's sign proclaimed it to be the dairy capital of the world and made no mention at all of UFOs or aliens. (Note the sign to the left of the city sign...seems to be advocating that we should BEGIN speeding?!)
We spent a day walking up and down the main street in Roswell and visiting some of the stores and the UFO Museum. I think things are a lot more lively here during the time of the Alien Festivals...things really had the feel of being "off season" while we were there. I did, however, run into this one alien on the street, and we were able to exchange the universal sign for Peace! Other than that, we had very little success at communicating!
We also visited The Nut House Pecan Company, where they were nice enough to show us how pecans are shelled....we'd wondered how that happened. It was noisy with the all the machinery that cracked and strained the nuts. Then the shelled pecans were sent by conveyor belt to these ladies whose job it was to hand-pick all the small pieces of shells out of the pecans! The ladies there were so nice, but I sure wouldn't want to have their jobs. Next time you wonder why shelled pecans cost so much, just think about all the labor that goes into processing them.
