Christmas Vacation 2003 - Our Trip to El Paso

	The Arizona Moores

Christmas Vacation 2003 - Our Trip to El Paso (Click on a picture to view a larger image and to view in gallery mode.)
Katie, Colin, & Nancy at Fr. Ed's sink, helping with some pre-dinner preparations shortly after our arrival. (45 KB)	Fr. Ed's dining room. He had everything ready for our arrival. (41 KB)	A view of Fr. Ed's living room, from the dining room. (45 KB)	Katie, Colin, Nancy, and Fr. Ed are busy with dinner preparations. (42 KB)	Downtown El Paso Christmas light display. (72 KB)
Colin, Katie, Nancy, and Fr. Ed standing in front of one of the Christmas light displays in the park in downtown El Paso. (62 KB)	Colin, Katie, Nancy, and Fr. Ed standing in front of another of the Christmas light displays in the park in downtown El Paso. (66 KB)	One of the Christmas trees in the park in downtown El Paso. (87 KB)	A nativity display in Fr. Ed's mission church. Fr. Ed said the display was put together by the kids. It was certainly big, and had running water! (40 KB)	A view of Fr. Ed's church from the altar looking out. (39 KB)
Fr. Ed on the altar prior to mass. (40 KB)	A view of Juarez Mexico from the front of Fr. Ed's mission church. (57 KB)	Fr. Ed's mission church. The sign says mass is at 11:00 am, but it really starts about 11:15. (39 KB)	Fr. Ed giving the homily during Sunday mass at his mission church in Juarez Mexico. (48 KB)	Fr. Ed celebrating Mass at his mission church in Juarez Mexico. (44 KB)
Fr. Ed's room in his house in Juarez Mexico. (33 KB)	One of the Fr. Paul's, hanging laundy in the courtyard of their Juarez Mexico residence. (48 KB)	Fr. Ed and Fr. Paul in the kitchen at their Juarez Mexico house. (46 KB)	Fr. Ed and Fr. Paul in the kitchen at their Juarez Mexico house. (38 KB)	A view of the living room in Fr. Ed's Juarez Mexico house. (35 KB)
The two Fr. Paul's in the courtyard of the house in Juarez Mexico. (33 KB)	Fr. Ed outside of his room, in the courtyard of his Juarez Mexico house. (34 KB)	Katie and Colin goofing around in the living room of Fr. Ed's El Paso, Texas house. (55 KB)	The Thing. Ok, it's really just Katie. At Fr. Ed's house in El Paso, Texas. (50 KB)	Joe, by a Patriot Missle launcher at the White Sands Missle Range, New Mexico. (47 KB)
A view of a missle display at the White Sands Missle Base, New Mexico. (35 KB)	The Big Dune, at the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (61 KB)	Katie, Colin, and Nancy, getting ready to climb into the dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (53 KB)	Kate and Colin playing in the snow -- er, sand -- in the dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (47 KB)	Nancy and Colin walking along one of the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. It looks like snow, doesn't it? (40 KB)
A view of the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (44 KB)	Joe, ankle deep in a sand dune at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (36 KB)	A little closer shot of Joe standing in the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. I couldn't believe how much it looked like snow. (43 KB)	Another view of the sand dunes and surrounding desert at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (30 KB)	Nancy and Colin in the dunes at White Sands National Monument. Nancy makes it look colder than it really was. And, no, that's not snow. (34 KB)
Joe, Katie, and Colin in the dunes at White Sands National Mounument, New Mexico. (32 KB)	Joe and Katie among the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (27 KB)	Joe and Colin in the dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Colin really doesn't want his picture taken. (32 KB)	Joe and Colin in the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (33 KB)	A view of the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (25 KB)
More of the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (20 KB)	Colin standing at the bottom of one of the sand dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (21 KB)	If you look closely, you'll see Colin standing atop part of a sand dune. This is what is left after wind and erosion work on the dune for a while. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (46 KB)	A view of the sand dunes from our car as we drove through the dunes. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (21 KB)	Nancy, Katie, and Colin looking out over more dunes. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (39 KB)
Katie and Colin take a little break at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (38 KB)	Nancy, Katie, and Colin at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Even the sand on the road looks like snow. (38 KB)	Colin on his way up one of the sand dunes. You can see Katie and Joe's shadow. Joe is the one waving. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (41 KB)	Colin walking along the top of one of the sand dunes. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (31 KB)	View from the top of one of the sand dunes. That little speck in the corner of the picture is Colin walking around the long way to get up the dune. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (34 KB)
Another view from the top of one of the dunes. You can see Joe's shadow waving. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (39 KB)	Colin and Katie on the side of one of the Sand Dunes in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (23 KB)	Katie, Fr. Ed, and Colin, in the living room of Fr. Ed's El Paso house. (45 KB)