Before I head to Australia to finally be with my husband, he is being generous and allowing me to spend a month with my mom. I came out to New Mexico a week early so that we could see the balloon festival, but bad weather made it not as great as we would have liked. When we realized we would have to spend upward of 2+ hours sitting in traffic to get to the 7am liftoff (and likely miss it sitting in said traffic), we decided to go to Denny's for breakfast. It turned out the Denny's was on a hill, and we sat in the parking lot and watched the balloons for over an hour.
There weren't that many, so we finally gave up and decided to see what random things my "Roadside America" app on my GPS had for us. Among the strange and unusual things to be found in and around Albuquerque, we saw a car mounted on an archway,
a house built to look like a bug,
a dragon in a playground,
a giant red arrow,
a "green" dinosaur,
a giant pink ribbon (appropriate for Breast Cancer Awareness Month),
a really cool painted house,
the "Madonna of the Plains" in honor of all the Pioneer mothers (thought of you, Sharon Gourlay),
satellite coffee,
Frontier Restaurant, the ONLY place for tortillas in Albuquerque (that one's for you, Jen Mahon),
and last but most definitely not least, our favorite sight of the day - a giant rattlesnake in the median:
After a busy day of running around, we had some lovely soup for a late lunch and back home for a nap! Loving this time with mom. <3
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