Made it back to Kansas in one piece or should i say 12 whole pieces. No Mike, did not try the steak this year, but did devour 12 of the steak for two specials with very little trouble, along with a couple of the boys eating the whole fresh jalepenos along the way.
We also hit a local authentic mexican food place in Ruidoso Downs, Disco taco, whose special tacos were made of "colita de pavo" and beef lips,basically turkey butt tacos and cow lips,,great stuff, don't sniff too hard, just eat it. The Quarters bar was straight out of Wild Hogs, cheap good food and bikers abounded. Our fourth was in Capitan at the Smokey bear rodeo where we had the only black kids and white people for miles around in our group! We also invaded a trout farm where the fish literally jumped on the hook.
We lucked out and stayed in beautiful Ruidoso (much by accident), with 50 degree temps in the night and gorgeous mountain settings, highly recommend it to anyone. Tried to drum up some wrestling workouts for the boys but the high school coach there thought i was possessed with a troop of 12 kids and 7 month pregnant wife in tow.
I have what i consider to be photographic confirmation of Waunita. My boys spotted her at the Roswell convention center milling through the various vendor booths. After purchasing our home space alien test kit (a bargain at 20 bucks) we pursued our elusive prey weaving through aura readings, new mexico lottery promotions (i won pretty good with the space invaders scratch offs)and other vendor booths. My daughter Scout helped distract the Sasquatch like female as i snapped a quick picture.
I asked world reknown UFO expert and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman to review the pic, he stated that she was definitely an alien, possibly an illegal one at that! Good enough for me!
I am willing to share the picture with anyone who would like to see it, i am in the process of copyrighting the photo, but drop me a PM if you would like to see.