Albuquerque Adventures--Continued!

Hello, again! What an exciting day we had today! After our nice breakfast which is provided by the hotel each morning, we got ourselves ready to greet the public! Ellen goes down each morning and brings breakfast back up to the room. (Truthfully, I thought I would be the one to go down and get breakfast, but since you would never know that she had surgery in May, she continues to spoil me by bringing breakfast.)

Our morning adventure took us to the huge JP Penney Home Store here in Albuquerque. Of course, you know that there are great bargains at this time of the year; therefore, we are happy to be able to come here to shop. (Believe me, we contribute plenty to the economy of this area each year.) We are already afraid that we are going to have to get a trailer to help get the things we have purchased back to El Paso. This is going to be a real test of Ellen's skill of packing things into every nook and cranny. The Town Car has a sub-trunk. You won't believe the things that she is able to pack below the real trunk.

Anyway, we were happy to find numerous picture frames for things. Then, the best part is that we found a great match for the comforter in the other upstairs guest room. She has been wanting to put draperies there that matched. We also found some beautiful tie-backs for both guest rooms (aka Nichole and Michael's old room and Joe's old room). In addition, she ordered beautiful custom cellular shades for both windows.

By then, it was time to come back to the hotel and have lunch. We just cleaned up our left-overs from previous dinners.

This afternoon, we ventured over to the Coronado Mall. It was a very busy place since the schools here begin in two weeks. We found some shoes at Macy's and then we were off to Kirklands. We found the perfect lamp for one of the new tables, but they only had the display one and it was broken. That was sort of sad; however, Ellen was able to get one small lamp for her bedroom. After a quick stop at Bath and Body Works, we managed to get to the car just before a torrential downpour began. By the time we made it back to the hotel, we had to sit in the car and wait for it to slow down.

This picture was made through our window. The arroyo outside was dry as toast this morning, but as you can see, it filled up quite quickly. We were glad to be back here safe and sound.
We are now ready to go down for the evening's social hour. On the menu is a baked potato bar. We are going to go check it out.

Tomorrow, our plans call for another trip to Santa Fe. This time we will go into the city to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum, then have lunch at the Georgia O'Keefe Cafe. Our reservations are for 12:30, so we will get up and go early in the morning. Until next time . . . . . .