Hello, Everybody!

Today we went to Santa Fe. We went to The Outlet Mall in Santa Fe. Many of the stores just vanished from there. How sad, huh? We know that it is a sign of the economic times, but it is still sad! We worked (shopped) until around two o'clock in the afternoon. Then, we went to Applebee's down the road. We knew that they would have the playoff football game on. Sure enough, we got a great table so we could have lunch and watch the Cardinals WIN their game. After that we went back to the mall and finished making our rounds.

On the way home, it was getting close to sunset. You can see our beautiful views if you watch the slide show. A few years ago, we were coming home from there and the sun was so bright at that time of day, that people were pulling off the road. It was very scary because we couldn't see anything in front of us except God's light. Thankfully, He gave us a few clouds today! Thanks, God!

The only bad thing today was when we got back to the hotel, our keys wouldn't work AGAIN! Poor Ellen had to go all the way back down to have the cards re-keyed.

We return to El Paso tomorrow. We say that sadly; however, we do have a birthday celebration coming up on the 27th. Sister Carol will come to town on
Thursday, the 22nd. We look forward to that, and then Nichole and Michael will come on Saturday. Ellen's oldest nephew, Russ, will also be here on that Saturday. Joe is taking vacation days from work. We will have a wonderful celebration. By the way, it is Ellen's 60th! (Just in case, we hadn't told you before.)

Until next time. . . . . . . . ...