Rio Grande Zoo

I went to a conference held in Albuquerque, NM. During some free time, I visited the Rio Grande Zoo. It's pretty nice - lots of different animals, nice displays. I spent about 4 hours there. My favorite is the chimp, who brought over a nice pile of poop to smear on the window. Then she ate it. Yum.

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Gabi, Uri, and Sonya await the parade floats. Uri is hiding.

There were some really good floats. Unfortunately, I had Gabi on my shoulders most of the time, so I don't have any other photos.

We had a great time watching the parade. The weather was pleasant, but a little windy. I didn't think the parade was quite as good as in years past. None of the Irish dance schools performed in costume - they just wore t-shirts and shorts. We walked around the festival grounds for a few minutes, but it was very busy and we were hungry. We went home, ate, and took naps.

While trying to sleep, I kept hearing an odd scraping sound. Later, I went outside to look and discovered the high winds were starting to peel up the roof! Sonya and I quickly weighed it down until we could fix it.