What's Up

Since getting back from Albuquerque I have not been feeling very well, so not much has been done, but now I'm starting to feel better so BACK TO WORK :-)

Happy Anniversary

Well Stephanie and I have made to our first big milestone, 10 years together.

So we treated ourselves to a road trip to see "MAMMA MIA" on stage at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.

We flew down and the first thing the rental car company wanted to do was stick us in a PT Cruiser (which I find very uncomfortable) so we upgraded and got a Toyota Hi-Lander instead.(Much Nicer).

Then after letting the Garmin figure out where we were we headed to our hotel, an Econolodge, that we had booked online, when we got there it kind of looked deserted, and after waiting a few minutes for the clerk we had our room and headed for it. It was a disaster, the heater was unplugged because the knobs did not work, the access panel for the plumbing of the unit above us was broken so it was hanging from the ceiling, there were stains in the bathtub and the door handle was loose and hanging at a 45 degree angle. So I had picked up some flyers in the lobby and we called the Route 66 Hotel Casino and their rates were not as bad as the other Casinos that we had check out earlier in the area.

So we checked out and headed for our new room, the hotel is only a couple of years old and was not in the garmin so I entered the address that they had on their flyer and off we went, well the Garmin told us to take exit 140 off the freeway and the turn onto a frontage rood and as soon as we had we saw a billboard saying take exit 149, well what's 9 miles on a frontage road? After we had traveled about 4 miles the Garmin said that we had reached our destination, and we were out in the middle of nowhere but we were still beside the freeway so we kept going, well after another mile the pavement ended and the Garmin did not show any road going on so we doubled back to the freeway and sure enough at exit 149 there was our hotel.

So this became our base of operations for the next few days. 

The weather was still being nice to us there was sun but it was cool and the wind was blowing. Tuesday we headed up to Santa Fe and saw how the other half live, we were not impressed! We did have an excellent meal at a restaurant that had been recommended to us, then on the way back to our hotel we did a little sight seeing.

Wednesday we headed up to Sandia Peak and rode the Tram up the 2 1/2 miles to the top, a rise of 4000 feet, quite impressive. When we got to the top the temperature was 20 F and the winds were blowing 20-30 MPH. We were able to have another person take a photo of us at the top.

on the way back down I was able to get a good spot and snap a few pics.

Wednesday night we went to the show and it was GREAT..

Thursday we just rested at the hotel and got ready to go home. That night the news said that a winter storm was headed our way, so we didn't sleep very well and when we got up they were saying on the local news that they had 4 inches of snow on top of Sandia Peak and the interstate highways to the east and to the north had been closed due to hazardous conditions. Luckily for us the roads between our hotel and the airport were clear and so we made it out of there at the right time, we are now back home and I caught a cold from someone, probably on the plane, and Stephanie is opening her Studio/Gallery 5 days a week and getting a lot of positive response and great write-ups in the local papers.