Something is wrong with my webserver…\u00a0 It was locked up when I got home from vacation & then this morning it threw some mysterious database error.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 I shall ignore it for the time being.<\/p>\n
So, odd computer behavior aside, we had quite the long weekend.\u00a0 We flew out to Albuquerque on Thursday morning for our friend Grant’s wedding.\u00a0 The wedding wasn’t until Saturday, but we like hanging out with the Ausherman family so we decided to get there early and put some fun time in.\u00a0 Not that the wedding itself wasn’t fun<\/em>, you know, but other kinds of fun.\u00a0 So, anyway, we got into town on Thursday, picked up a rental car, and headed out to Chen’s for some lunch.\u00a0 Why ever on earth you would go to a Chinese restaurant when you are in NM I cannot even begin to explain.\u00a0 Something to do with the last time Donette was there with the girls they went and it was really good and blah blah blah.\u00a0 Whatever;\u00a0 I just drove there with nary a complaint and enjoyed my pork chow mein.\u00a0 (It wasn’t too bad either, in all fairness.)\u00a0 After lunch we headed to the Hyatt downtown and got all checked in.\u00a0 Thanks to my highly gregarious nature, I struck up a friendly conversation with the guy at the front desk and found out that he also was from KC, and was familiar with several of our favorite haunts.\u00a0 This somewhat extended conversation wouldn’t really bear mention except for the fact that he comp’d our parking for the entire weekend and hooked us up with a room that had an awesome view of the nearby mountains.\u00a0 This, while nice, wouldn’t really be worth mentioning either<\/em>, other than I got no end of entertainment when I found out that David & Jill, (parents of the groom,) who spent money untold at the hotel for rooms, the reception hall, etc, got dinged $12 a night for parking and had a less-than-favorable view of the hotel’s HVAC equipment out their window.\u00a0 SWEET.\u00a0 After reveling in this score for a while, we all headed out to Sadie’s<\/a> for a little dinner.\u00a0 I had the carne adovada enchiladas myself;\u00a0 Oh my goodness.\u00a0 After dinner all the “kids” went out to take care of business, in the form of their respective bachelor\/bachelorette parties.\u00a0 Not being quite up for that action, Donette & I joined David & Jill for a bit “tamer” entertainment before heading back to the hotel to turn in for a relatively early evening.<\/p>\n Friday morning we got up late and sorta hung out at the hotel for a while.\u00a0 Jill had gone off to do “wedding stuff” (booooo) and David had to run up to the airport to pick up his friend Steve.\u00a0 Later in the afternoon Donette joined Jill for still more “wedding stuff” (boooo) and David wanted me to meet up with him & his friend to pass some time.\u00a0 I was a bit apprehensive about this turn of events, not being particularly fond of either meeting strangers or passing an entire afternoon with them.\u00a0 However, when his friend pulled out a hand-written list of local breweries & brewpubs that he had researched and wanted to visit, I knew everything was gonna be OK.\u00a0 So while the girls wasted their time on whatever silliness they were up to, we dove into some research of the local brew scene at Kelly’s<\/a>.\u00a0 We didn’t stay too long, and then headed back to the hotel pool to discuss what we had learned from our experience.\u00a0 Our little meeting didn’t last long though before the girls started calling, bothering us with some nonsense about a so-called “rehearsal” and this and that, so we had to cut our pool time short.\u00a0 We made it through the rehearsal, and then travelled to the mecca of New Mexican Cooking, El Pinto, for the rehearsal dinner.\u00a0 (Neither Steve or Donette & I were actually in<\/em> the wedding party, but were quite honored to get invited to the rehearsal & dinner.)\u00a0 Anyway, El Pinto just may be my favorite restaurant ever.\u00a0 Bold statement, but quite possibly true.\u00a0 Man I love that stuff.\u00a0 They had a buffet set up, and it was as if they had somehow picked all my personal favorite items off the menu for it.\u00a0 I really don’t remember most of the evening, I think I may have blacked out for a while.\u00a0 I sort of remember being introduced to a bunch of people and mumbling some kind of gutteral response with my mouth full, and I’m afraid I may have yelled at some lady who I felt was taking too long at the rib tray.\u00a0 Ohhhh, the red-chile ribs, oh my.\u00a0 I think I may have been personally responsible for the demise of at least 2 slabs.\u00a0 Unfortunately I was quite unable to go out with everyone after dinner, as I had to get back to the hotel and suffer through a bad case of the meat sweats, which kept me up most of the night.<\/p>\n Saturday I got up quite early and drove David & Steve to a nearby golf course.\u00a0 Our obligation for the afternoon was to meet up with several other guys to discuss & finalize the details of the upcoming ceremony over a few holes of golf.\u00a0 There were twelve of us in all, which would have made for a nice round three foursomes, but I elected not to actually swing any clubs myself.\u00a0 This was, believe it or not, the first time I had set foot on a golf course in my 43 years, and it was far too much pressure to actually participate.\u00a0 So, I just drove the cart around with David, Steve, & Grant, fetched errant shots, watched the game, and tried to learn a few things.\u00a0 (By the second hole I was wishing I had rented some clubs;\u00a0 It looked fun.\u00a0 Oh well, live & learn.)\u00a0 We were on the course for the full 18 holes, then rushed back to the hotel just in time to get dressed and head to the wedding.\u00a0 The ceremony was at a nearby winery, outside in the scorching Albuquerque sun.\u00a0 Wow, was it hot, and the dark suit was not helping.\u00a0 The good news is the actual ceremony only lasted ten minutes;\u00a0 The bad news was it started forty minutes late.\u00a0 (You can ask Donette about that part of the story, she likes telling it.)\u00a0 It was brutally<\/em> hot.\u00a0 We survived though, and I probably needed to sweat off a few pounds of those ribs anyway.\u00a0 After that we headed back to the hotel for the reception;\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 Nice dinner, few hours of dancing;\u00a0 General wedding reception activities.\u00a0 (No, I personally did not engage in any dancing, thank you very much.)<\/p>\n Sunday we slept in, then met up with David, Jill & Steve at the pool to wind down and rehash the good, bad & ugly of the day before.\u00a0 Very relaxing actually.\u00a0 We got a late checkout from the hotel and just loitered down there all day.\u00a0 We finally took off around 5 o’clock to head to the airport, stopping by Frontiers<\/a> on the way for one last green chile fix.\u00a0 This was a good thing in that it was truly delicious;\u00a0 A bad thing in that we were so miserably full I was afraid we were gonna blow on the flight home.\u00a0 We made it though, albeit very late in the evening & still very full.\u00a0 We picked up Gabe from Aunt Ronda’s house, struggled home, and went straight to bed.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 Good weekend.\u00a0 I’ll get back to the gym and take care of the overeating tomorrow.\u00a0 Or Wednesday.\u00a0 Thursday at the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Something is wrong with my webserver…\u00a0 It was locked up when I got home from vacation & then this morning it threw some mysterious database error.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 I shall ignore it for the time being. 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