ABQ, I love you!

Sarah
January 19, 2010 1:14 PM
We had a girls' trip this weekend, and it was so fun!  Participants:  Heather Glenn, Kristi Mayer, me, and Kristi Burgess.


We all met up in Albuquerque, where Heather moved a few months ago.  What a fantastic trip!  We all flew in on Friday and went to the Albuquerque temple.  Then we had a delicious Chinese dinner.

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This picture represents all the delicious food we had while we were there -- who knew Albuquerque was such a gourmet spot?  We had a very authentic Italian lunch, and we had dinner at the Church Street Cafe -- the oldest house in Albuquerque.  They serve New Mexican food, which it turns out involves lots of really good green sauce.

On Saturday, we went to Santa Fe and had lunch and walked around the main square.  It was really chilly, so we went to a movie.

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We went to see Leap Year -- if you're at all wondering if you should see it, don't waste your time!  We all decided Kristi M. owes us $7 each for even suggesting it.  We should have seen Invictus, but at least we got a good laugh at how dumb it was.

We all grew up together and have known each other since 7th grade, so it felt like a family reunion.  We laughed all weekend -- and what a great break to get to enjoy being together without worrying about the kids.  It made coming home really great -- thank you, Peter!

On the trip, I have to admit I listened to "Twilight" on my iPhone (which is so great!).  I'm in the .1% of our female population who haven't read the books.  While they are extremely cheesy and overly dramatic, now I'm hooked and have to read "New Moon."  So today, the kids and I checked out our local library.  Why have we not been there sooner???

It is great -- we checked out a few educational videos for the kids, some good books...  And they have little computers with games for John's age, and story time on Fridays.  All this means, we have a fun winter activity!

Here are the kids enjoying the LeapFrog Word Factory video.

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