I really really really love to be on vacation. I do like to go back home......but I don't want to have to stay there long before we're off on another trip!
Aaron left really early once again and we were a little slower getting out of bed this morning. We spent our time packing things up and we started packing a little faster when Paul suggested we hit the casino before we meet Aaron for lunch.
The plan was to have lunch with him and then we were going to head to Albuquerque to catch our flight at 5pm.
We headed out to the casino in the middle of a flurry snowstorm. It was really kind of neat and the scenery was beautiful. We spent close to 2 hours in the Camel Rock casino and then met Aaron at the pizza place (yes the same one we just ate at a couple of days ago).
Paul wanted to try their homemade gluten free crust and fresh mozzarella and of course Aaron wanted another Pepperoni/Green Chile. Since we had brought Olive with us.....we took a publicity shot of her with our delicious pizza.
We weren't much impressed by their gluten free crust (ours is better), so while we were eating we decided that because of the bad weather we were experiencing in Santa Fe......we better check our flight later in the day. * we have also learned a lesson by not checking ahead of time and had to RUSH to make a rescheduled earlier flight *
Glad we checked! Sure enough......our flight out of Albuquerque was cancelled due to weather. As we sat eating our pizza, Paul was trying to get through to the airline to find out what our options were and to try and get us scheduled on another flight.
We decided (after Paul got hung up on 3 times while waiting FOREVER on the phone) that we might have better luck using a real phone instead of a cell phone. After buying a pizza for Aaron's employees, we headed to his work to use the phone.
After unsuccessful attempts at trying to call United, we logged into our United account online and found out that they had already rescheduled us on a flight that left Albuquerque at 8pm and had a layover in Denver. We would land in Houston about 1:30am.
Well hey.......since we had more time than previously planned......we went ahead and went to the gun range. It had been on our agenda, but we didn't have the time before.
Of course, here's the master expert that had to teach us everything we didn't know.
This guy did pretty well.
And I surprised myself. I have to admit I was really scared handling the gun and hated the noise, but was impressed at some of my shots. I hope if I ever had to shoot a gun for real that I had all the time in the world to line up my shot.
Look at all these expert shots we made. Not bad for a couple of rookies and an expert!
After shooting, we had to say our good-byes and head on down the road to Albuquerque.
The scenery in the car was awesome:
And the scenery outside the car was amazing!
Thank you Isleta casino for taking a little bit more of our money, but giving us a little more fun!
We were a little bummed that we weren't getting the nonstop flight home that we thought we were originally going to be on.....but the flight to Denver left on time and we only got held up in Denver about 30 minutes longer than previously anticipated.
I really felt sorry for all the long lines of people trying to get flights home and all the people that we saw sleeping in the Houston airport. We landed about 2am and after getting luggage and our car we pulled in the driveway about 3am.
I really do like visiting New Mexico.......can't wait to visit again!
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