We arrived in Albuquerque on the 13th and checked into a KOA north of town. This gave us a chance to do laundry, shower, empty holding tanks and fill water tank.
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| From Albuquerque - Rally |
While at the rally we are dry camping except for electric, which we paid extra for. On the 15th we headed into Albuquerque to park at the Balloon Fiesta Park, we had a morning time to check in and were some of the first to get there as we were only about 10 miles away. We got a pretty good place to park and it was close to where the buses loaded to take us to the fair grounds for rally, the bath rooms and the night entertainment was very close. The first thing we did after getting set up was catch the bus to the fair grounds to register and get our information. Ended up buying two rally sweatshirts for $5 each. Now you say what a bargain.........yes it was but they were from last years rally, but we didn't care. They are quite nice and we knew there was some cold weather headed to Albuquerque so we would need them.
We attended a few seminars and did some shopping at rally. It seems as tho the more rallies one attends the seminars seem to be something we don't think we want to do again. Went to a couple of heath type ones and I went to one on Google Earth and one on Picasa, both given by the Geeks on Tour, Chris and Jim. It was good to finally get to say hello to them, I am sure they don't remember all the people they meet at these things.......but at least I stopped by the RV.net booth where they were and introduced myself.
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One day the Balloon Fiesta park was offering half price off the entrance to the museum so we went to that. It was quite interesting......giving the history of ballooning, I think we must of spent most of the afternoon there.
Roger loves the entertainment that is at the rallies. This year on opening night.........which happened to be Roger's 66th Birthday, Neil Sedaka was at the Rally.
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It was very good, but wish he would of sang more of his old songs. The bad thing was it was cold out and the whole thing was inside a large tent like building with a dirt floor. The chairs they had were cheep folding ones and very uncomfortable. One has to get to these things early to get a seat, so when arriving about 6pm and he didn't come on stage till after 7:30 we already were tired of sitting. You will notice in the photo's in my Albums (if you click on photo it will take you there) that while waiting for the concert to start............people walk around.....up and down isle with signs with numbers on a sign. Ok..................this looks funny to you, but they are looking for a match to their number to win a prize. We are each given a number when we register and have until Saturday to find it. There are 4 of each number, so one has a chance to find 3 other numbers like theirs. People walk around with the numbers on front of them, on back of them and even signs held in the air....all during the rally. They even post them on their RV in hopes someone passing buy will see it and be a match. Needless to say............we have been to 5 of these rallies and have never found our match yet. Oh well, maybe next time.
The good night of entertainment was when the Osmond Brothers came. That was a good one and we both totally enjoyed that one. One year they had Debbie Reynolds and boy was she good.
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There was also a balloon glow one night and I got some pictures of that as well as one morning I looked out the RV window and saw balloons getting ready to go up.......wow more pictures.
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We left the balloon fiesta park on Tuesday morning and headed to Cortz. I must say, the traffic was a pain getting out of Albuquerque and the Balloon Fiesta Park along with over 3000 other RV's.
Next stop will be heading to Grand Juction and staying at our daughter Janis' house. We will be parking in their side yard. Going to grandson (Calan) graduation which is May 13, then we will be heading back to Iowa, hopefully it will be warmer then.
Don't forget to veiw all my pictures in My Web Album, you should click on one of the photo's and them go thu all of them, I only posted a few. Enjoy
Till later...............drive safe and Happy Trails
