A very pleasant 1/1
Jan. 1st, 2008 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerAfter lazing around during the morning (watched the Tournament of Roses Parade), figured it was time to start the Black-Eyed Peas and Ham in the Crock Pot tradition. Lots of tasty ingredients...but I only had one lackluster can of black-eyed peas for the pot. A trip to the grocer fixed that.
Danny and I took off for a day trip a bit before 2. The intention was to see if we could catch the Rail Runner train and maybe ride it between Bernalillo and Belen (50 miles), but of course it's a holiday and nothing is running.
Getting there was part of the fun though...we took the old Pam Am Highway/Original Route 66 up through town to the 2nd Street station, then further up to Bernalillo...I'd never been that route. We started to go to Coronado State Monument, but that's ALSO closed major holidays and Tuesdays. Took the road past the Santa Ana Casino toward the Jemez Dam, with a minor side trip to see the expensive Hyatt Tamaya resort on the reservation. We hooted when we saw that they spray paint their border grass GREEN, out in the midst of a desert environment...even the golf course was whitish from the freezes, but the GREEN spray painted grass was over the top.
Beautiful drive up to the dam, but...the road was also closed there, too, for no apparent reason.
So back we went through Rio Rancho to head home again.
Whipped up some cornbread, and we had our new year's beans and cornbreak repast before retiring downstairs to watch Shrek the Third...and that's our day!
Danny and I took off for a day trip a bit before 2. The intention was to see if we could catch the Rail Runner train and maybe ride it between Bernalillo and Belen (50 miles), but of course it's a holiday and nothing is running.
Getting there was part of the fun though...we took the old Pam Am Highway/Original Route 66 up through town to the 2nd Street station, then further up to Bernalillo...I'd never been that route. We started to go to Coronado State Monument, but that's ALSO closed major holidays and Tuesdays. Took the road past the Santa Ana Casino toward the Jemez Dam, with a minor side trip to see the expensive Hyatt Tamaya resort on the reservation. We hooted when we saw that they spray paint their border grass GREEN, out in the midst of a desert environment...even the golf course was whitish from the freezes, but the GREEN spray painted grass was over the top.
Beautiful drive up to the dam, but...the road was also closed there, too, for no apparent reason.
So back we went through Rio Rancho to head home again.
Whipped up some cornbread, and we had our new year's beans and cornbreak repast before retiring downstairs to watch Shrek the Third...and that's our day!
