Some ruins and space stuff

We got up this morning and headed south from Albuquerque, since it a bit of a drive to Alamogordo where we are staying tonight, we decided to stop at the Abo and Gran Quivira ruins, which were on the way to Alamogordo, where we were staying that night. Abo ruins are very small, there are ruins of both the ancient Native village and the mission built on the site in the 1600s. Gran Quivira was basically a bigger version of Abo. Both of these were nice stops on the way to break up the drive, but don't know if I would drive out of my way to see them. In Alamogordo, we stopped at the world's biggest pistachio (mainly to use the bathroom and wash the sunscreen out of my eye). After checking into our hotel we went to the New Mexico History of Space museum, which was kind of interesting. I got to land the space shuttle (flawlessly of course). They have a lot on display there, some of it was very interesting. We had dinner at Y'all's steakhouse, which was meh. I was hoping for a steakhouse experience, but instead it was more like the Denny's of steakhouses. Not terrible, but not great either. To make me feel better we then got hot fudge sundaes at Sonic before calling it a night. Tomorrow, White Sands National Monument.