It's me again...
I'm just kidding, but I finally distracted Niki long enough so that I could do some blogging. Hahaha, I am so funny in my own mind...
Anyway, we left Amarillo, TX early this morning on our way to New Mexico. We left a little late but luckily the time change made up for that (at least it did in my mind). The change from Texas to NM was simply amazing. Texas was boring New Mex was amazing, end of story. No but seriously, Texas was totally flat but as soon as we crossed the NM state line things started popping up... like tumble weed on the windshield and other cool things like mountains.
Our first stop was about 2 1/2 hours west of Amarillo in Santa Rosa, NM. We were looking for a place called "Blue Hole"... Long story short, we found it.
It was a lot of fun for a hole in the ground. (Check out Niki jumping)
It wasn't all fun and games at the blue hole, however, there was also tragedy...
I left my freakin' sun glasses and new Hat on the car trailer as we pulled away. Only to remember 30 miles later down the road. It was quite sad and unfortunately Niki gave them both to me as birthday gifts. But you can't drive across the country without sunglasses, so, without further ado... the replacements:
Niki says they make me look ridiculous- she's still a little shook up about it all so if you're going to mention my new sunglasses to her make sure you call them "the replacements"-Thanks, The Management.
After leaving Blue Hole we headed north to Santa Fe and stopped for lunch just north of there. It was absolutely amazing "old Mexican" food (place called Gabrielle's), which is exactly like the Mexican you're used to but when in New Mexico that stuff's old Mexican. Any way we sat out side and the view was spectacular (so were the margaritas).
We then headed strait off for Bandalier National Monument near Los Alamos. I know that I've finally grown up because today I really enjoyed a national park. It was quite cool-check it out for yourself:
(Niki would not take a picture of me strait-on with my new 'ridiculous' glasses)
(These are all holes where people used to live...crazy)
(Getting friendly with the locals) (By the by, just before we spotted this fine deer and his/her friends-which numbered 3 in all-we saw the fattest squirrel in the world, and, just before that I mentioned to Niki how surprised I was at the lack of wild life in Bandalier... go figure)
After spending some time at Bandalier we headed further west for Jemez National Monument which happened to be closed, so we continued on to Albuquerque. We were feeling pretty tired so this was not such a bad idea.
We ended up going to a really sketch restaurant for dinner. But it was recommended and in the Old Town (only about a mile from our hotel). The guy built the place himself and it was adobe style unfortunately we have no pictures of this so use your imagination. However, he was the only one working in the entire establishment as he paid almost no attention to us the whole meal. But then he would not let us leave... yeah, creepy. He kept wanting to show us around his place. After we finally escaped we made it back to the hotel and we're ready to get a good night's sleep.
Adios,
Graham and Niki
I left my freakin' sun glasses and new Hat on the car trailer as we pulled away. Only to remember 30 miles later down the road. It was quite sad and unfortunately Niki gave them both to me as birthday gifts. But you can't drive across the country without sunglasses, so, without further ado... the replacements:
Niki says they make me look ridiculous- she's still a little shook up about it all so if you're going to mention my new sunglasses to her make sure you call them "the replacements"-Thanks, The Management.
After leaving Blue Hole we headed north to Santa Fe and stopped for lunch just north of there. It was absolutely amazing "old Mexican" food (place called Gabrielle's), which is exactly like the Mexican you're used to but when in New Mexico that stuff's old Mexican. Any way we sat out side and the view was spectacular (so were the margaritas).
We then headed strait off for Bandalier National Monument near Los Alamos. I know that I've finally grown up because today I really enjoyed a national park. It was quite cool-check it out for yourself:
(Niki would not take a picture of me strait-on with my new 'ridiculous' glasses)
(These are all holes where people used to live...crazy)
(Getting friendly with the locals) (By the by, just before we spotted this fine deer and his/her friends-which numbered 3 in all-we saw the fattest squirrel in the world, and, just before that I mentioned to Niki how surprised I was at the lack of wild life in Bandalier... go figure)After spending some time at Bandalier we headed further west for Jemez National Monument which happened to be closed, so we continued on to Albuquerque. We were feeling pretty tired so this was not such a bad idea.
We ended up going to a really sketch restaurant for dinner. But it was recommended and in the Old Town (only about a mile from our hotel). The guy built the place himself and it was adobe style unfortunately we have no pictures of this so use your imagination. However, he was the only one working in the entire establishment as he paid almost no attention to us the whole meal. But then he would not let us leave... yeah, creepy. He kept wanting to show us around his place. After we finally escaped we made it back to the hotel and we're ready to get a good night's sleep.
Adios,
Graham and Niki
1 comment:
Hey guys. I am sooooo jealous! New Mexico looked like a lot of fun. Nice jump off the rocks Niki...you daredevil!! Graham, your replacements are a little deputyesque but I like them. It makes me sad and glad to hear from you. Keep blogging and take care of each other. Like Brad said...we can't wait to join you someday!! Love ya Sarah
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