A bit more about Old Town Albuquerque:
It is sort of centered around the old Spanish town square/plaza. While we were there, in fact, a wedding was taking place on the grassy plaza. The oldest church in Albuquerque is there, as well as what appear to be some very nice museums. The area is filled with all sorts of alleys and courtyards filled with pretty little gift stores and restaurants. One of the restaurants had this wonderful smell of roasting, spicy meat...I thought we would have physically restrain Fist from going in there, as tea time was rapidly approaching...

Day Nine
We all slept in late. In fact, we slept in so late, we missed the free breakfast the hotel supplies. But that was OK, because we headed over to the Copper Canyon Cafe, the place where we had to say goodbye to Fist and Birdy and her hub...the food is good there...

We then visited the University of New Mexico campus. My older son will be heading to college in a couple of years, and is interested in studying either architecture or engineering, so he wanted to check things out...

Afterwards, we visited Old Town Albuquerque. Dan and the boys had not visited it on Saturday with the group (they had headed out to the waterpark, which turned out to be rented by a huge private party that day, but that is all a whole different story). We went to the restaurant where John and I had gotten our lemonaid and got some of the hot sauces with the naughtiest names to send to some people in Dan's family. And we went to the cat store and bought catnip goodies for Danlo and Tam's cats, and to bring home for our own.

Then we retuned to the hotel. Dan and the kids went swimming, and I slept for most of the afternoon. When I woke up we went over to Danlo and Tam's house, and he led us to a beautiful, shady park where he and the kids, and some kids from the neighborhood, all played soccer. Sweet, sweet Jam came with us, and didn't want to be separated from her Daddy. She kept coming on to the field so she could sit next to Danlo. Unfortunately, Danlo appeared to step in a hole, and hurt his leg. He was in so much pain that I wanted to cry. It was still a beautiful night, with a huge, full moon shining on the horizon, the mountains purple in the distance, all of the happy dogs running free through the huge trees, and the cicadas calling out into the twilight.