Sneezing at Roswell

Serious question....This last summer I took 2 of my daughters (13 and 16) on a "road trip of epic proportion". Our first stop was Roswell, NM. We visited the museum and bought shirts. It was lots of fun. BTW, it is really educational but is more like a science project exhibit, newspaper clippings, recordings of radio broadcasts, drawings, replicas, etc... The girls were excited though. Strange though was my physical reaction during the tour. I could not stop sneezing during the duration. I also started noticing a guy that stayed with us throughout the museum. It is a place where you just walk around on your own so as a Mom with my girls out on a road trip my radar was always on overdrive so I thought I was being overly paranoid but then I noticed he was taking pictures of exhibits from behind us, always with us in the pic. He never walked up and read anything up close, always kept us between him and the object of his camera. At the end is a recreation of an autopsy, we are all looking at it and I felt really sickened by it and said, you know, it just seems morbid, a recreation of an autopsy, of any species is just wrong. I then turned and noticed both my girls have tears in their eyes. We exited into the gift shop, bought shirts and I noticed camera guy is now in the exit area. Its like you leave the gift shop and walk along the building face along a glassed in area to the other exit door. So he is in there talking, we finish and we have to walk past him in this narrow area to get outside. He is still talking and as we are going past him he turns and watches us, nods and says "Welcome back ladies, enjoy your trip." Welcome back???

OK, I know I am being paranoid but you have to admit that was weird, we kind of laughed it off, made jokes and all as we drove over to our next stop, White Sands missile range. We checked into the hotel and the clerk guy says, "Hey nice to see you, been waiting for you, I saved back 2 sleds for you to take to the dunes." I am thinking my husband called them even though I made these reservations and only listed one adult on the reservation. So we change, go out to the dunes and spent the entire afternoon sledding and sitting out there watching the sun set. As we are leaving we actually got to see some military helicopters fly past. Later I talk to my husband and he never called the hotel...

We then drove past the giant array telescopes just in time to see someone dressed up in a blue body suit near one of the telescope get picked up by a jeep and taken somewhere. We of course pulled over and took pictures. During the petrified forest tour we had a park ranger follow us through the entire park, stopping where we stopped and giving us pretty much a guided tour. Then after lots of other cool stops, we get to San Francisco and check into our hotel only to find out our room for 4 nights has been upgraded free of charge to the presidential suite, complete with balcony facing the ocean...

When I get home I am telling my dad (who is retired high up military) about Roswell and the sneezing and his reaction is, "wow, I bet that got their attention". I was like, why would my sneezing get anyone's attention? He said no reason and changed the subject.


So after all of that I really just want to know if anyone has ever had anything strange happen while vacationing, especially at sites such as Roswell, and also, has anyone else ever experienced or heard of anyone having sneezing fits at those places...and why the heck sneezing could/would get someone's attention?