We’ve really
enjoyed our time here in Albuquerque. We will be leaving tomorrow heading to
Amarillo for an overnight stay. We plan
on taking advantage of the free breakfast provided by the RV Park before we leave. We ate their breakfast on Thursday and were
surprised that more than just bagels, juice and coffee were provided. They offered yogurt, hard boiled eggs, cereal
and waffles in addition to what we expected.
I forgot to
mention in my post about the zoo that the combo ticket for seniors is just
$10.00. That gets you into the zoo, the
aquarium, the botanical garden and includes unlimited train rides.
We had such
fun square dancing with the clubs here.
Everyone was so welcoming. One of
the callers, Jerry Gilbreath, really knows how to mix things up so that even
experienced dancers sometimes have to stop and think. We found that the square dancers here are
more vocal and enthusiastic than most we have danced with – sometimes it was
hard to hear the caller over the dancers.
Friday
during the day we spent catching up on laundry and cooking. We cooked a whole chicken in the crockpot,
part of it went into Cranberry and Almond Chicken Salad the rest will go in the
freezer for something later. A pot of
beef stew made with Mrs. Dash Beef Stew seasoning, an Italian pasta salad and
Oatmeal cookies are going to taste good as we travel this next week.
This
morning, Saturday, we went grocery shopping at Smith’s which is part of the
Kroger family. The produce section is
always our main target and the one here definitely differs from the Midwest
ones we are most used to. We could find
cactus, many different kinds of dry beans sold in bulk, huge bags of dried
chilis, corn husks for tamales, probably 20 kinds of tortillas and hundreds of piñatas
of all different shapes and sizes.
However, if you wanted potatoes a ten pound bag of russets was your only
option. I still don’t know what we are
going to do with ten pounds of potatoes, we’ll be eating those all the way back
to Indiana. I wonder if they always have
the piñatas hanging everywhere or if they are just anticipating Cinco de Mayo
sales.
They didn’t
carry the brand of bread we are used to buying which fits into our low sodium
diet so I had to look at the nutrition information. I picked up one and showed it to Greg. He said, “I can’t read it I don’t have my
glasses.” I said, “You couldn’t read it
anyway, it is in Spanish.” I have found
though that as I’ve seen signs and advertisements in Spanish here they do
mostly make sense to me. Maybe if I was
here for a longer stay I would find that four years of high school Spanish
might come back to me.
This
afternoon I’ve spent catching up on the blog.
I can’t let it get too far behind or I forget what I want to write about
what we have seen.
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