This first photo is looking West from the tramway, well looking West about 75 miles toward Arizona. the view may not quite translate to a photo reduced this much, so if you are in Albequerque area GO TO THE TRAMWAY it's worth the trip and the $$. The tower that we have just passed in the photo on the left is over 270 feet high and we are still looking West toward Arizona here. The tramway is the longest one of its kind in the world and was built by a Swiss company. The engineering 
specs on it are amazing. This next tower is the 2nd one and isn't nearly as high as the first. Look carefully at the third photo, yes there are PEOPLE ON TOP OF THAT TRAM. We were of course curious as to how one could rate that special seating arrangement and asked. You have to work there we were told. Okey doke.
Now here is the view from the top of the mountain to the East looking across the ski lift. Yes that is another guy standing on top of that ski lift working on it as best we could tell. After coming back down we then drove to the Albeq. zoo, the first critter here below is a capybara, yes that's right the world's largest rodent, 
a giant ratlike thing that only another rodent could possibly ever love. Blech. Lots of animals and I have pictures of most but won't overload the blog. We really enjoyed the polar bears too so thought I'd bring you one here.
Of course zoo photos would not be complete without photos of lions so 
here are my obligatory lions. The male was just an enormous black maned fellow who was very interested in those of us who smelled like big dogs. Probably wanted to show us what a real predator looked like. The 
North American version of a lion was terribly interested in us too, the zoo has 3 pretty spectacular cougars or maybe it was 4 or 5. Then there was this handsome and inquisitive zebra stallion at the zebra enclosure. Now there were also some really interesting birds to be seen there, these big white ones were African vultures. Kind of pretty actually for buzzards as we would call them around here. Then there was this really agitated and angry looking African stork that hopped and skipped around and beat on the other one in his cage. After we left the zoo we were pooped and went by the grocery store I believe so we could pick up last minute Thanksgiving stuff. Can you IMAGINE how crowded that store was?
a giant ratlike thing that only another rodent could possibly ever love. Blech. Lots of animals and I have pictures of most but won't overload the blog. We really enjoyed the polar bears too so thought I'd bring you one here.
Of course zoo photos would not be complete without photos of lions so 
here are my obligatory lions. The male was just an enormous black maned fellow who was very interested in those of us who smelled like big dogs. Probably wanted to show us what a real predator looked like. The 
North American version of a lion was terribly interested in us too, the zoo has 3 pretty spectacular cougars or maybe it was 4 or 5. Then there was this handsome and inquisitive zebra stallion at the zebra enclosure. Now there were also some really interesting birds to be seen there, these big white ones were African vultures. Kind of pretty actually for buzzards as we would call them around here. Then there was this really agitated and angry looking African stork that hopped and skipped around and beat on the other one in his cage. After we left the zoo we were pooped and went by the grocery store I believe so we could pick up last minute Thanksgiving stuff. Can you IMAGINE how crowded that store was?
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