Yesterday Leonore, Nancy and I toodled up to the Sandia Peak Tramway for the view. All I can say is WOW!! Pictures yes, when I get home and reduce them. While you couldn't quite see the usual 100+ mile view from the 10,400 foot top of the mountain, you could see over 75 miles away , it was spectacular. It is the longest tramway of it's kind in the world and well worth the $17.50 to ride it up. Someday I'll come back and do some hiking about the top but not in hot weather, snakes and black bears would make it not the best choice plus I like cool weather better. We got some great photos and also saw a completely crazy couple of young men riding on TOP of the other tramcar. How do you get to do that we asked? You have to work here said the tramcar chick. Leonore and I agreed that with a safety harness hell yeah we would do it. Weather would have to be a might warmer though as it was around 35-39 at the top of the mountain but no wind so not bad. Where the two tramcars pass each other coming up and going down they are around 1000 feet above the ground or 7 seconds above the ground depending on how you look at it.
Then we headed to the Albq. zoo and just had a great time taking photos and admiring the animals. They have some magnificent specimens there most noteworthy the white rhinos, cougars, lions, and polar bears, the most arrogant wicked trio of bald eagles too. They also have the very rare Mexican wolf, some snow leopards (including a BABY one that was way too cute) and a lot of really interesting birds. We got to watch a kookaboora eating his dinner ( a mouse) and go through a freeflight cage with a huge flock of budgies to get to the koalas. We didn't make it to the aquarium so entranced were we at the zoo but that was OK, I really loved it. A rather weird thing kept occuring at the zoo though ( and I suspect it was because Leonore and I must be innudated in the smell of large predatory canines). The really big predators all took distinct notice of us within moments of our arrival at their exhibit especially the lions and polar bears. The golden tamarind primate thingies all got agitated and ran over and postured and chattered at us, and the poor red river hog ran to its barn door and "squealed like a pig " with ear splitting decibels looking over its shoulder ever so often at us. It must have realized how much I love pork tenderloin and bacon. We even had a large ornamental crane go complete beserk posturing, flinging its wings and running back and forth in its enclosure. Note to self, wear clothes fresh out of a dryer and just step right out of a shower before you go to another zoo.
Today was Thanksgiving and what a feast, fire rubbed turkey breast, brown sugar coated baked ham, roasted medley potatoes (red,yellow,blue) a casserole made of corn, grits, green chilies and lots of cheese, a salad and for desert Leonore's son Anthony made neat little individual chocolate volcano cakes. I took a taste of everything, it was yummy, managed to exercise self control and not eat enough to regret it though. Leonore's sister and her husband came over and after dinner they played several rounds of rousing, competitive dominoes ( I know nothing about the game), and our friend Susan Van De Water was also here from TX for Thanksgiving so it was really very very fun for me, I greatly enjoyed spending time with all of them.
Now we are praying that the weather front doesn't dump any significant water in Roswell tomorrow or Saturday or those of use with two wheel drive (even frontwheel) will not be able to get our vehicles on the back dirt roads to the coursing event. I am just not willing to sink my Caravan up to its axle for this when I could just drive elsewhere and free course on BLM land. The forecast has improved though and the chance for rain has dropped from 30% to 10% with great temperatures only in the upper 50s. Great for the dogs. The entry is huge for a Thanksgiving one day breed event (12) so I sure hope that rain holds off. We are heading out earlyish tomorrow morning to maybe drive down and see the VLA and the Bosque del Apache NWR.
Oh yeah it snowed like mad here for about two hours, just enough for me to get cute pictures of Vger in the snow. Tried for cute CJ photos but he would not cooperate.
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