Carsbad Caverns, our third cave visit of the trip, was absolutely a landslide victory as far as caves go.  This cave was enormous.  The "big room" was literally miles long and at some points, over 100 feet high.  The thousands upon thousands of stalagmites and stalactites, soda straws, draperies, columns, and more truly deserved to be located in rooms such as the "Kings Palace".  Our tour guide was a great story teller.  At one point, she turned off the lights and asked the group to be silent.  We all sat, waiting for our eyes to adjust, in eerie silence.  But, it gave us a sense of the fear experienced by the first explorer who went through when he dropped his lantern.  Only, he was by himself.

After our guided tour, we took close to an hour long walk around the "big room".  We then took the elevator back to ground level and headed towards Roswell, New Mexico in search of alien life.  We found many aliens, not of which were real of course.  The whole town is adorned with alien puppets, dolls, murals, and even the lampposts are alien shaped.  We ate in a hilarious restaurant which was themed around alien sightings and weather balloon conspiracies.  After dinner, we drove to Lubbock, Texas where we would stay in a KOA campground.