The Activity Center of NMSU arranged a White Sands Overnight trip last weekend. Me and 6 other exchange students decided to go there, sleep in a tent and enjoy the view. White Sands is a a huge area of white sand dunes, people can go there camping or just visiting. The dunes reach as far as your eyes can see... There's also some NASA missile test place around. Here's a link for more information if someone wants to check it out: http://www.nps.gov/whsa.
In total we were something like 19 people, most of the Americans.
Although the trip was quite short and we were basically just walking to the camp site and enjoying the night sky, something "historical" still happened :P Ansgar (the German guy) told us a story about his Polish friends who showed him pictures about them traveling. It seemed that the Polish guys were quite stiff in all the photos... So we decided to try also making some pictures like that :D So until now on we created the so called Polish pictures and our goal is to travel and take "Polish" pictures where ever we go :P (no offense of course to anyone from Poland, I'm sure it was only these guys who pose like this ;)) Important is also not to show any emotions in the pictures.. We found it quite hard not to laugh :D
Otherwise camping there was really great! We could see so many stars and the moonlight was extremely bright! So even though it was night, we could see everything because of the bright moonlight. Also all around White Sands we could see thunder storms :P We were a bit worried that the storms would reach the White Sands but it seemed that they were just circling the area where we were staying and it appeared like we would be in the eye of the storm.. We were eating some marsmellows and just enjoying the night! It was reeally great! The night was a bit cold but nothing compared to Norway for example! :D
Here are some photos!
Our camp
Walking back to the car in the morning
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