Day two of our New Mexico girls’ trip began with breakfast in the hotel. Meh.

After breakfast we walked across the street to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center where we toured the museum and watched Comanche Indian Dancers.

I learned that baseball has been a big part of the 19 Pueblo communities as far back as 1885! Team members aged 15 – 55 would play together, and this is where a lot of mentoring would happen within the community.

Today there is a Northern Pueblo League and Southern Pueblo League.

Next we headed to Old Town for some shopping, and had lunch at El Sol de Mexico – Araceli.

There is a beautiful church in Old Town, known as the oldest church in Albuquerque, serving the community since 1706.

Exhausted from shopping, we headed back to the hotel to rest up a bit, then back to 12th Street Tavern for dinner (no margaritas this time) and time to firm up plans for day three.

My girlfriend trip to New Mexico started today! We’ll spend two nights in Albuquerque, two nights in Taos, two nights in Santa Fe, then one more night in Albuquerque, before our flights home. There are four of us: one from Nashville, two from St Louis, and one from Mesa, AZ.

I had an early start, coming from Nashville and connecting thru Atlanta. My Nashville flight boarded at 7:30 am, so got myself to bed at 9:30 pm and set my alarm for 4:30 am.

Unfortunately, my body decided 2:00 am would be a good time to wake up, so after tossing and turning for another hour or so I got up and got myself out the door.

I was a couple hours early for my flight so decided to treat myself to breakfast at Titans Press Box. Two eggs, a biscuit, tater tots (enough for a table of four imo), a side of sausage and a coffee set me back $40 with tip! Holy Canoli, Batman!

Two hour layover in ATL, which wasn’t bad. On the ABQ leg I enjoyed an inflight movie, “IF”, which was cute, then watch a couple episodes of the new Frasier, which I expected was not going to be as good as the original, but I found it quite funny!

Here’s some art from the ABQ airport:

Upon arrival at ABQ, I was picked up by two of the ladies on the trip who had arrived earlier, and we went to lunch while we waited for our fourth’s plane to arrive.

Lunch was at Pollito con Papas, where I learned about Chicken Stuffed Potatoes. Pretty tasty!

We picked up our last travel buddy, and then headed to the hotel, which was conveniently within walking distance of 12th Street Tavern, so after settling in, we headed over for nibbles and beverages. And by the way, 12th Avenue Tavern has just about the best margaritas I’ve ever tasted! Two margaritas and some cheesecake later, we purchased a four pack of Sadie’s Classic Margaritas on the way out and continued our party back at the hotel.

Next morning note to self: three margaritas = one too many margaritas. 🍹