Friday, Sept 29

We left Portland at 11:30 am and arrived into Albuquerque at 3 pm. Sue (my older sister) was scheduled to arrive 1/2 hour later.  So I decided to wait for her while George and Rebecca went to get the luggage and then to rent the car.  Sue's plane was late and then it took them a long time to get off the plane.  George and Rebecca came around and picked us up.  The hotel was pretty close. Because it was rush hour it took us 15 minutes instead of 10 minutes. ;-) to get to the hotel.  Steve met us at the hotel.  Then Jamie and Pam came down to join us.  They had arrived around noon.  We chatted in the lobby for a little while then we went off in different directions.  We met back in the lobby at 5:30 pm for our complimentary wine.

At 6 pm we headed off to the Balloon Museum for Lia (Jennifer's daughter) & Chance's rehearsal dinner.  We had the place to ourselves.

We visited for a while.

The Sandia Mountains

Steve, Jennifer and Sue

Steve, Sue, Jamie and me

The Mexican food buffet was very tasty.

A very pregnant Ashley (Jennifer's daughter), was getting the dessert ready.  She had made the chocolate cupcakes.  The main cake was a red velvet cake.

Chance with Aidan

Chance, Aidan and Lia and some kid I don't know.

George is off to Oz.  This is a very nice museum.  

While we were at the dinner someone bashed into my brother's car and totaled it!! What a bummer.  The whole front end is hanging down so that it was not drive able.  He will have it towed.  Jamie and Pam gave Jennifer and Steve a ride home.  At least the person left a phone number.  Hopefully, it is an accurate phone number.

Once we got back to the hotel we sat in the bar and had a nightcap.