Gettin' our grub on!

I could not resist titling this blog entry with the above statement :) The picture is of me holding a huge rubber "grub" in the Children's Fantasy Garden we visited today. Don't you just love the look on that kids face? They also had rubber earthworms, but I preferred the grub. I could hardly lift the thing, it was so heavy! After holding a grub, I worked up quite an appetite. We just returned from dinner at the County Line BBQ--the best BBQ ever! I kept telling James how good it was, and now he got to find out for himself. I had no idea they had a County Line here in Albuquerque--I have been to the original location in Austin and was planning on eating there when we get to Texas. So we got a head start and had a delicious meal. :)

We had a wonderful day today though! We started the morning at the Rio Grande Zoo and Biological Park. They only charge $12 for entry into the zoo, aquarium, and botanical gardens. The fee also included unlimited rides on the little train between the parks. For such a small zoo, they had many neat exhibits and animals. It was pretty hot today--90 degrees--but dry, so we were able to enjoy the day. We wandered around the zoo until around 2:30PM, then headed out to the Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway. I was really excited and apprehensive about riding the world's longest tram, but I am so glad I conquered my fear of heights and went anyway. The picture above is of James at the top of the peak--10,000 feet! The temperature up there was about 30 degrees lower than at the base of the peak, but it was so refreshing after being hot all day. The views were just amazing, although it was a little hazy.

Tomorrow is going to be the longest drive of the trip, and hopefully we will not encounter too much inclement weather. Texas has been having quite severe thunderstorms and flooding over the past week, so I am hoping they will not be too bad so we can make decent time. It is about a ten hour drive from Albuquerque, so I might not be alert enough to post tomorrow. But I will try my hardest!