August 18, 2008
Hail Storm - 8/17/08
Yesterday mom and I were in Albuquerque printing her boarding passes for her flight. On our way home I decided to take the scenic route through Isleta pueblo and then down Rt 47 in Los Lunas though Tome and into Belen that way. We made it to the Tome Art Gallery and it started to hail... Hard! I turned around and tried to get away from it, the hail was about an inch in diameter!!!
We ended up going home through Los Lunas on Rt 314. When we got into Belen there was hail piled on the roads/grass/roofs as if it were snow! There was a lot of water puddled up and several side streets had completely flooded. We stopped at the park near downtown Belen because all the trees there had been stripped of their leaves by the force of all the hail. The ground was littered with small branches mixed with large quarter-sized hail.
We got to where I needed to turn to get to my street and I couldn't because the runoff from the storm was washing over the end of the street so fast that had I tried my car would have been washed into the drainage ditch. We had to drive several streets up the road to higher ground before I could get into my neighborhood.
Here are some of the videos I took with my cell phone, my mom's digital camera has some more videos on it and once I get them I'll be adding them to this playlist on YouTube: Hail Storm Playlist.
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January 11, 2008
Back Home
So we made it home ok a couple weeks ago. We had a relaxing New Years, went to bed at 10pm after celebrating with the East coast. Zack got all trimmed nice last weekend and this weekend we don't have anything planned. We'll be posting pictures/videos from our Christmas this weekend and updating this site with links so check back soon.
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December 27, 2007
In the car, yet again!
So we're mostly packed for the trip back to New Mexico. We've got almost everything in suitcases or bags and in the hall ready to go into the car. We're not planning on leaving until around 10am as Meriah doesn't get out of work until around 6pm. Hopefully the drive will be uneventful (I'm sure it will be) and we'll make good time. We're taking Sat off from driving and will just hang out with Meriah, since we didn't get that chance on our trip out to Alabama.
We should be back in New Mexico sometime Sunday night, probably around 8pm. I'm not working until 10am on Monday, so I should be able to get some sleep before having to be back at work. Tuesday is New Year's and I'm not working a full day so that will help me recover, but Wednesday is a sale changeover so I've got to be at work extra early for that (UGH!). Oh well, no rest for the weary I guess.
Ok, sleep now!
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December 25, 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Merry Christmas!! We're having a great time in Alabama, we just got done opening presents, having breakfast (at noon!), and getting things cleaned up some in the living room. Erin and I got a bunch of stuff that we had asked for, as well as a bunch of stuff that we didn't that we enjoy just as much. From movies, to tools, to games, to clothes; everything is great and we will get loads of use out of.
I won't bore everyone with a list of what we each got, but we were very glad to be able to come out to Alabama and visit family and hang out for a while (even if it was only for a week for me, Erin got 2). I am much more relaxed and have some great opportunities that may open up for me in the near future (keep your fingers crossed).
Alright, time to go back to everyone and visit.
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December 24, 2007
Traveling Again
Yesterday afternoon I began my journey back to Alabama. I left the house around 11am with the intent of getting my haircut before going to the airport; well that didn't happen, I had to be at the airport at 2 and by 1:15 it was obvious that they weren't even close to getting to me before I had to leave so I left and just went to the airport.
I got to Dallas/Fort Worth just fine, and then they changed the gate number so I had to move, and then the flight was delayed because the crew that was supposed to be on our plane was delayed coming from Columbus, OH because the flight into Columbus was late coming from Chicago, IL! We left an hour late and landed just before midnight. Needless to say it was a long day with many hours spent just sitting at DFW with not much to do.
Erin picked me up at the airport and we went back to her parents house where we fell asleep pretty quickly.
Tomorrow is Christmas and I'll post again after we open stuff and do all that.
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December 15, 2007
Alabanana
Erin, Zack, and I made it safe and sound to Alabama. We were planning on leaving on Friday morning, but then changed the plan because some serious inclement weather headed the same direction we were going; we didn't want to risk the East Mountains of ABQ getting closed. We left Thursday at 4pm and made it to Ft. Smith around 5am CST!!! That's after spending the last 7 hours of the trip driving in really dense fog. We slept until 11am and then went to lunch and got back on the road for the rest of the trip around 1pm. We pulled into Erin's parents' just after 9:30pm.
Zack did really good, he spent most of the trip sleeping in the back seat. Needless to say we were tired and spent whatever time we could get sleeping. Today we went out for coffee and met Shannon and did some shopping. Thom flew in tonight and we sat around and talked for a while after he got in. My eyes won't stay open anymore so I'm heading to bed.
NIGHT!
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June 8, 2007
The Jonah Veil
Today The Jonah Veil were supposed to play a concert in Albuquerque and I was so excited about being able to see my brother and the band he's in play a concert. But because of a booking snafu (i.e. the concert was never really booked) they didn't get to play. The ended up hanging out at our house and having a cookout with Erin and I.
I'm really bummed that I didn't get to see them play, but it was a lot of fun hanging out and listening to them tell some of the stories about their cross-country trip so far. It's 10:30 and they just left a few minutes ago to head to their next gig in Abilene, Texas. Hopefully that concert will still be happening by the time they get there.
I've got a handful of pictures up of them at our house here: <link>
EDIT: more pictures can be found here: <link>
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May 21, 2007
10,000 Lakes
Erin and I just got back last week from a week-long trip to Southern Minnesota to visit Erin's dad's family for a reunion of sorts. It was a lot of fun and Zack made the trip with us for his first time on a plane and he did very well. There was lots of eating, visiting, and cleaning that happened during our short visit. Over all it was a nice trip and Erin and I had a good time. I took some pictures, but not many of them are of people; most of them are of scenery around the house, or of Zack playing in the yard HE HAD NEVER SEEN GRASS BEFORE! and decided that it tasted pretty good so he would lay down and starting ripping chunks of the lawn out of the ground.
Here's where we posted the pictures that we took; Erin's sister took others and when we get those we'll post them as well: <link>.
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