ROAD TRIP!

Hello all!

I know, I know, long time no see, but I notice, I am not the only absentee of late.  It's summer, everyone is busy or too hot to think, much less write.

We went on a road trip a couple of weeks ago.  Where, to where everyone in NM goes, Albuquerque.  I know someone out there is wondering why that isn't Santa Fe.  That is for two reasons, many natives think Santa Fe is where all the "real" aliens are and secondly because Albuquerque is the center of the universe, I mean state.  That is a bit of a joke, I used to hate how all the people I knew who lived in the big Q thought they were so much better than those of us who lived out in the sticks.

All kidding aside it was a great time, the hubby's mom wanted to watch the kids so we drove to Las Cruces and met her and picked up another friend and then headed up to Albuquerque, this effectively double the time our trip took, but it meant we had a great excuse to stop at one of our favorite road trip haunts, THE OWL in San Antonio, NM.  San Antonio is a one traffic sign town but they have great green chile burgers.  It was around that time I realized that this was our first road trip without children in the almost five years since Z joined us. While they have stayed over at grandma's house a few times, we hadn't left town.  Explains a lot, I know.

The guys had a big weekend planned of picking their fantasy football teams. The old college gang (from NMSU) was back together.  We were laughing because everyone is from Las Cruces, but most of the group lives in Albuquerque now, well except us down in that town between Roswell and Carlsbad. 

Since it was the big day, my friend and I slipped out to Borders to buy Harry Potter at midnight, although I was just tagging along, since I hadn't read book 6 yet.  So I bought that, the clerks thought I was a bit crazy.  However with a full day ahead of me to read, I was ready for book seven by the end of the day and bought it anyway.  I finished it before we got back to Las Cruces.  It is possible I called kept calling the guys stupid gits all weekend, pretending I was Hermonie. 

Before we headed back we stopped and had breakfast at the Frontier, an Albuquerque landmark. After a plate of huevos rancheros and a cinamon roll, I thought I would be sick from eating too much, but it was delicioso. Bonus, I didn't need to eat the rest of the day.

So to sum it up, I got to stay up until the wee hours of the morning cruising a bookstore, without children, sleep in, read, hang out with old friends and have a good gnosh. 

Somewhere in th last couple of weeks, has been vacation bible school, and the launch of my ebay store.  This week is the fair and more clean up to the "property"  Maybe I'll finally post pictures of the job ahead of us and you can  tell me how crazy we are.