Denver, Albuquerque March 29 through 31st

Day 4, March 29, 2013 Denver
We got up and were on the road at 8 am for the 445 mile trip to Denver.  We stopped at Charlie’s Bakery and Café in Las Vegas, NM and had a simply marvelous breakfast!  David had a chorizo/egg/green chili skillet and I had a ‘Stuffy’ which is a sopapilla stuffed with scrambled eggs, chorizo, onions and papitas on the side – I got my green chili on the side too ‘cause it is SO spicy!  Here are a couple pics of our breakfast

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We got to Denver and checked into our hotel about 4 pm.  David had talked to our friends Jim and Joan Meyers and said we’d have dinner with them – well needless to say after driving 8 hours I was NOT going back out into that traffic!  We called and asked them for a rain check for the next day.  Then we placed a call to Kathy & Ron Bernard whom we knew were only about 5 miles away, and she suggested we meet for dinner at Chili’s – about a mile from us.  That is what we did!

It was so wonderful to see them both, although Ron is looking pretty haggard right now, having had surgery about 3 weeks ago and is not recovering as fast as he would like.  If you have time for a prayer, please say one for our friend Ron, and his wife Kathy.  We followed them back to their campground and chatted for about 2 hours, then Ron was noticeably tired and so were we!  Off to the hotel we went, with a stop at Target to replace things I forgot to pack…hairbrush, David’s toothbrush, underwear, I do NOT know where my head was when I was packing, but it sure wasn’t where it should be!!!  Sheesh!

Saturday morning we got up around 8 – I went to the ‘free’ Brightside breakfast ate and brought David back oatmeal and yogurt.  We putzed around and then we stopped at Best Buy on our way over to Ron & Kathy’s…got there a little after 11 and chattered until time for lunch.  Ron thought he could eat something from Noodles & Co so that is where we went – I had the Japanese Udon noodles w/chicken – wow, very tasty, David had stroganoff that he was not real thrilled with.  We chattered and ate and chattered some more, then we went back to their home again.  After several more hours of chattering we said goodbye to these wonderful friends, whom we hope to see at National in Sturgis in June!

We then headed over to 104th Ave to a place called Cinzetti’s…which is a simply marvelous Italian buffet, with literally everything Italian, from salad to desserts – simply to die for!  We met Jim and Joan there and we chattered for more than 2 hours as we slowly made our way through far too much food!  The food and the company was exceptional! 
We got back to the hotel about 7:30, walked Cinder and crashed.

Sunday, March 31, 2013
Happy Easter!  We were on the road by 7:40 am, having had a bite of breakfast.  We got out of Denver in great time and stopped at McDonald’s in Las Vegas (Bakery Café was closed), then on down the road I picked up my Ice Tea – the lid popped off, David said “I got it” I let go and he dropped it – OMG we had sweet tea and ice cubes everywhere!  He was grabbing ice cubes and pitching them out the window, we used every bit of napkins that we had, and still not enough. 

We arrived here in ABQ about 3 pm – and I have gotten stuff unpacked, but now I have to go clean out the car…sticky sticky sticky!

We got ready and went to the Route 66 Diner here in ABQ and got our Buttermilk pie fix - we're now home and ready to crash for the night!